Management plan does not list all council land for sale

A management plan exists for 62 blocks of council-owned land on the Peninsula, according to Gosford Council chief Mr Paul Anderson.

However, not all land the council plans to sell is listed in the plan.

East Gosford environmental consultant Mr Phil Conacher was reported in the last edition of Peninsula News stating that it appeared a plan of management did not exist for land the council planned to sell.

He claimed that the council could be in breach of the Local Government Act as a result.

Gosford Council has supplied a copy of the 1996 Community Parks Plan of Management which includes a list of 62 lots on the Peninsula to which it applies, spread across 36 locations.

Mr Anderson said the plan was still current and covered the management of all community land in the local government area.

Five of the allotments on the Peninsula that the council plans to sell in two stages are listed in the plan.

However, the other five are not.

None of the three blocks of community land that have been earmarked for reclassification to enable their sale in stage one were listed in the plan's land schedule.

The land in stage one is at Lots 195 and 196 DP 9894 Brisbane Ave, Umina and Lot 56 DP 9263, 40 and 42 Albion St, Umina.

Five of seven allotments of community land to be sold in stage two were listed in the plan's schedule.

They were at 40, 42 and 46 Pozieres Ave, Umina, and at 10 and 12 Jumbuck Close, Woy Woy

However, two lots at 9-11 Mackenzie Rd, Woy Woy, were not listed.

Mr Anderson said that parcels of land acquired or reclassified after 1996 were managed in accordance with the plan's principles.

Media statement, 27 Jan 2016

Paul Anderson, Gosford Council