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Collapse Issue 433 - 27 Nov 2017Issue 433 - 27 Nov 2017
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Nursing home refusal to be reviewed
Woy Woy police station may get officer-in-charge
Sporties' plan attracts 30 submissions so far
Council abandons Australia Day celebrations
Wicks claims achievements
'Dire need' to monitor oyster leases, says Tesch
Ferry service disruptions continue
Charity ball exceeds fund-raising target
MP to hold youth forum
Blaze burns in national park
New interview room at Mary Mac's Place
Mary Mac's collects for Christmas hampers
Guide issued for objectors to Sporties' proposal
Club plans to raise funds through to Christmas
Night work on Rip Bridge
Council agrees to meeting about Umina oval
Group starts to promote shade trees
First fair for the Bays
Call to control cotoneaster
Local charity appoints new chief
Bays' committee members step down
Information walk about bushfire hazard reduction
Collapse  FORUM FORUM
What is the future of the Peninsula?
Loss of iconic club would be huge
Unanswered questions show need for transparency
Creeks are the best form of drainage we have
Lions Park entrance is a major asset
Good public performance venues needed
Clubhouse is not abandoned
They will not supply a dredge - stop asking
We need sharply-focussed and sophisticated plans
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Aged care provider was awards finalist
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Jazz played in arboretum
Choir performs for Mary Mac's
Rotary plans Opera in the Arboretum
History book about The Bays
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School raises issue of 'inappropriate cyber interactions'
Students help collect soil for memorial
Orchard Hills girls help clean up the Peninsula
School celebrates 90th birthday
New furniture and equipment
Learning about dogs
Students write for Christmas exchange
Celebration
School musical praised
Students sing at shopping centre
Ball games carnival
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New equipment brings pool to Olympic standard
Umina boxer set for the Commonwealth Games
Killcare surf club rookies go to camp
Charity bowls at Sporties
Fitness program awaits funding approval

Nursing home refusal to be reviewed

A proposal to build a nursing home in Hillview St, Woy Woy, has been revived, with an application being submitted for the review of the Council's previous refusal.

Central Coast Council refused the $27.8 million application that sought to modify a development approved over a decade ago.

Following a Land and Environment Court hearing in 2006, an application was approved in 2007 for a 37-unit seniors living development but the new "amended" proposal was for a 160-bed aged care facility.

Council refused the latest application on the basis that it was not substantially the same development that had originally been approved and modified.

"The proposal involves radical transformation from that approved," an assessment report prepared by Council staff stated.

On November 22, three months after the refusal of the application, community members who wrote submissions received notification that Council had received an application "to review the determination of refusal" of the proposal.

"The applicant has submitted additional information aimed at addressing the previous reasons for refusal," the letter stated.

Submissions can be made on the proposal from Thursday, November 30, until Thursday, December 21.

The application for the review was made by planning consultant Doug Sneddon Planning Pty Ltd under Section 82A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act which enables the applicant to ask for a review of Council's "determination of refusal to the proposed Section 96 Amendment - Building Modifications to Enable Use as Residential Care Facility and Section 96AB Building Modifications to Enable Use as Residential Care Facility".

"If your submission is an objection, any grounds of objection must be clearly stated and should not include references of a personal nature," the letter stated.

Although the letter stated the additional information would be available online it could not be accessed by Peninsula News at the time of going to press.

As previously reported in Peninsula News, the site of the proposed development includes a conservation zone for a gazetted Ecologically Endangered Community of Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland.





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