Gazebo plan rejected

The proposed St Huberts Island gazebo will not go ahead after Gosford Council rejected the proposal.

Cr Daniel Cook moved for the application to be withdrawn .

"It is not in the public interest," he said.

"It worries me that Council has lodged an application that has in many ways divided a community."

Residents addressing Council at a meeting earlier this year said they were concerned about potential vandalism and criminal activity around the proposed gazebo.

Opposed residents said the gazebo could be a target for vandals.

The idea for a gazebo came from the St Huberts Island Residents Association.

They applied to Member for Robertson, Mr Jim Lloyd, for funding under Federation grants and were allocated $20,000.

Cr Debra Wales said that withdrawing the application was giving into vandals.

"We are doing exactly what the vandals want us to do which is end up with nothing," she said.

"We are the losers.

"If they graffiti, we should get back there and clean it up and if they burn it down we go back and build it again."

Council is now investigating the possibility of retaining the funding to be used in another part of the city.

Carl Spears, August 10