Town plan, coastal works and library project scheduled

A new masterplan for Woy Woy Town Centre, coastal protection works along the beachfront and refurbishment of the Spike Milligan Room in the Woy Woy Library are major projects Central Coast Council plans to undertake over the coming financial year.

Both the coastal protection works and the library refurbishment are subject to grant funding.

The Spike Milligan Room at the library is due to be refurbished by April 30, and will include of an exhibition space for the Spike Milligan memorabilia that is in the library's possession.

The coastal protection project will take three years, with a technical brief prepared and specialist consultants engaged to design and undertake an environmental assessment for the project tis year.

The masterplan for the Woy Woy Town Centre is expected to be completed by June 30, 2020.

The Council plans to change the Peninsula Leisure Centre operations so it achieves an 85 per cent cost recovery rate by the end of the year.

The council also intends to deliver "improvements" to the Patonga "Holiday Park" to attract visitors to holiday on the Central Coast.

A proposal to divert 45 per cent of household waste away from the new council's landfill sites may also prolong the life of the Woy Woy tip.

New vegetation and wildlife corridor mapping and bushfire prone lands mapping is to be completed for the whole local government area.

Council is also planning to develop a new recreational strategy for the local government area's natural areas to enhance the value of council's natural assets.

The "operational plan" for the coming year mentions a specific "Tuggerah Lakes Ecological Report Card" but does not have a strategy to create anything similar for the new council's southern waterways and lagoons.

A review of the Gosford Coastal Lagoons Entrance Management Plan is to be completed and other high priority actions from the newly-gazetted Coastal Zone Management Plan are to be implemented within the period of the operational plan.

The Council intends to prepare and lodge a planning proposal for a uniform Central Coast Local Environmental Plan to replace the Gosford LEP2014 by the end of the year.

Many service and management strategies under the governance and leadership category within the operational plan are, as yet, in their formative stages.

Central Coast Council agenda 3.7, 28 Jun 2017