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Collapse Issue 442 - 09 Apr 2018Issue 442 - 09 Apr 2018
Collapse  NEWS NEWS
Popular cruise is cancelled as channel silts up
Auditing firm backflip clears Gosford accounts
Anzac Day services
Comments sought on flying fox strategy
Items of local heritage significance identified
Traffic lights at school unlikely before 2020
Rogers Park sandstone cost $31,790
Library refurbishment starts
Lightning stopped trains, caused fire and blackouts
Council maintains dredging position after legal advice
RMS clarifies its role with Ettalong Channel
Ferry services cancelled
Chamber fears ferry service may have to stop
A chance to reminisce about simpler times
Information provided for Seniors Festival
Technology sessions for seniors
Hotel owner seeks approval for 'urgent' works
Proposal to replace single dwelling with three
Proposal 'does not comply' with setbacks or length
Construction certificate issued for non-complying units
Wicks expects speedy response from ACCC
Street tree group praised by council
Rotary seeks exchange student
Chicken shop closes as administrator is appointed
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Why is the channel not a Government priority?
Erosion study in 1977 described sand dynamics
Government should not approve unsafe ferry service
Council is not facing our infrastructure needs
Why don't we have our own Peninsula Council?
Making the area accessible
Residents could have made events viable
Unaware of planning regulations?
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Cheque presented to hospital
New rehabilitation clinic opens
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Pop-up paella at The Bays
Songwriters' conference planned for June
Troubadour hosts Canadian performers
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
Anzac service held early
Cross country carnival on Friday
Mariners learn dance moves with students
School leaders invested before Easter
Parents body positions announced
School receives grant for sensory garden
Supplies collected for Tathra community
Collapse  SPORT SPORT
Umina boxer makes Commonwealth Games
Umina rower takes schoolboy coxed four title
Youngest surf patrol praised for their actions
Ettalong prepares for pennant season
Umina bowls' major singles

Why don't we have our own Peninsula Council?

While council plans for new waterside developments and the revitalisation of Gosford township, the millions of dollars Peninsula residents pour into the council account is doing precious little to improve the Peninsula.

Works that have been overlooked, ignored for sometimes 20 to 25 years, are still being put on a back burner: the railway underpass at Woy Woy, the Woy Woy Wharf renewal, channel dredging off Ettalong and approximately 70 roads that have no kerbing or footpaths.

Patch up jobs everywhere but, as we are told, it all takes money to fix, and government only lets councils raise rates by small annual increases.

This didn't stop the former Gosford Council investing $100M in dud American real estate deals and losing almost $39M of our money back in 2009.

Now they can't agree on what to do with the Ettalong Channel problem which is impacting negatively on the income from tourist dollars, not to mention commuter inconvenience.

It is doubtful they will ever resolve the railway underpass, and footpaths and street kerbing seems to be totally beyond their capacity.

So when you analyse it in its entirety, why do we continue with Central Coast Council?

Why don't we go back to having our own Peninsula Council?

Surely there are enough intelligent people on the Peninsula to form our own council and have the rates and so on that are collected used for our own benefit.

The Peninsula did it that way many years ago and it couldn't be worse than our current predicament.





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