Foreshore help sought

Gosford Council is seeking funds through the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP) to help manage Ettalong foreshore.

The funding would go towards the foreshore and CBD area.

Council's coastal planning committee report said that works associated with the Ettalong Fast Ferry, War Memorial Club, CBD and foreshore proposed works would be "holistically managed by Council".

Council had verbal confirmation from DUAP that the application has been short-listed for possible funding.

The report said that Council's environmental section had received a draft Ettalong Fast Ferry terminal environmental monitoring plan, which was required from the ferry proponents as part of Council's conditions of consent.

According to the report, Council was viewing the plan and the Department of Land and Water Conservation had been invited to comment.

Council's manager of the environment, Mr Mike Alsop, had received a request from St Huberts Island residents to look into the possibility of building a retaining wall at the end of an entrance to an inlet on the Island to halt erosion.

Mr Alsop told the committee of a possible long-term strategy for all the inlet entrances on the island.

Mr Alsop's plan has been forwarded to the planning section of Council.

The Department of Land and Water Conservation, NSW Fisheries and NSW Waterways would also consider the plan.

Carl Spears, October 12