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Collapse Issue 441 - 26 Mar 2018Issue 441 - 26 Mar 2018
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Channel needs science, not amateur ideas, says CEN
Impasse remains over channel dredging
Protest sends clear message, says Crouch
Ettalong channel makes talkback radio
Second dredge motion defeated
Mehrtens and Holstein want comprehensive briefing
Beach erosion and silting 'not connected', says CEN
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Council calls for rail underpass funding
Spiralling fuel prices spur local MPs to action
Get planning right with new scheme, says Mehrtens
Sporties' merger memorandum 'could take months'
Work starts on Killcare development
Waterfront group fights on against development
ACF branch objects to proposed nursing home
Children's charity receives grant
Easter sunrise service at surf club
Community group looks for secretary
Meals on Wheels holds open days
Progress on Rotary project in Uganda
Couple discovers link with celebrant
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Why is council removing play equipment?
Mayor asleep while development proposed for bushland
I want my children's great grandchildren to play on sand
Liesl Tesch was respected and acknowledged
Outrageous variations of 75 per cent
Five-year street plan needed
Over-population cannot continue
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Tilt recliner chair donated to aged care facility
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Script submissions wanted
Artisans exhibition at Patonga
Much has changed, but constitution has not, says author
Folk club to hear story of young women's voyage
Sicilian ensemble at Italian festival
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Dylan receives Nanga Mai award
Interact club raises $500 for Ugandan school
Pre-schoolers taught foreign languages
Forensic science at Woy Woy
Students clean up
Head lice need 'head treatment', says principal
School practices for online tests
Students in photography
Umina sends students to swimming carnival
Playground nears completion
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John Roberts takes out singles championship
Nippers rewarded for collecting bottles and cans
Lexi wins bronze against 170 in under-9 flags
Shirts and Skirts Saturday bowls
Killcare Nippers finish their season

Waterfront group fights on against development

The Save Woy Woy Waterfront community group is continuing to work "100 per cent to stop inappropriate development" of the Woy Woy Bowling Club's site, according to Mr Ross Cochrane.

The group is planning to hold another community meeting on April 8.

"Woy Woy Bowling Club and the open recreation area it occupies are at risk from the overdevelopment plans.

"There is still potential the Sporties club will be closing, whether the redevelopment goes ahead or not," he said.

"Every property developer has the right to attempt to build apartments.

"Seniors have the right to live in nice apartments by the sea.

"But residents of neighbourhoods also have the right to fight to keep open space and Councils have the right to uphold the zoning of open recreational space," said Mr Cochrane.

"Woy Woy Bowling Club, long ago, was given title to the land which has been zoned open recreational land.

"This means that the community has designated this land to stay, as it states, as recreational land that is not built over.

"The property developer might not like it, but the councillors, as elected representatives, have every right to make a statement in this process, and we encourage them to do that.

"When the club got into financial difficulties, it sold its title to a property developer.

"That person is now trying to turn a profit by using a loophole in a state planning policy for seniors housing.

"To claim the Sporties will close if the development application is not approved is stretching the facts.

"If the application is approved, there will be no Sporties - not as a bowling club at least, and not for several years during the construction."

More than 120 local residents made submissions to Central Coast Council against the planned multi-storey seniors housing proposal.

Objections included the fact that the proposed building was much higher than the surrounding neighbourhood, it contained no guarantees that seniors only would be residents, the site was subject to flooding, and the community would lose open recreational land.

"The councillors of the Central Coast were elected to represent the interests of residents," said Mr Cochrane.

"They have every right, if they feel that a development is unsuitable, given the zoning of the land, the responses of the residents, and the flood mapping of their staff, to make a submission to the Joint Regional Planning Panel.

"The property developer, Mr Tony Altavilla, can huff and puff as much as he likes, but he has no more rights than residents and councillors."





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