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Collapse Issue 471 - 10 Jun 2019Issue 471 - 10 Jun 2019
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Fuel tanks to be replaced to remediate contamination
Council is 'more bureaucratic and less attentive'
Concrete burrows installed for penguin colony
Village resident celebrates 100th birthday
Tesch to continue to campaign for palliative care
Hamper donated to celebrate birthday
Community halls 'not commercial entities'
Peta Colebatch steps down after eight years
Three receive Queens Birthday honours
Small buses not suitable for Phegans Bay, residents told
Marquart attends fewest briefings of ward councillors
Application to construct new warehouse
Submissions to close on proposal next to St Luke's
'No tender' for Correa Bay boat ramp
Two local councillors claim no expenses
Water rates to drop from July
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Councillors give themselves a pay rise
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Sea Shepherd to clean Umina Beach
Chamber president welcomes Farnell Rd approval
Geoff Melville steps back from a lifetime of service
Rotary club hears about youth cottage
Bill would prohibit Woy Woy cash loan machine
Residents with stormwater issues invited to tell council
Italian theme day
Special lunch for volunteers at restaurant
Trainee named as finalist
Papua New Guinea lunch at CWA
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Have efficiency and economies occurred?
Could some councillors up their work rate?
Living next to a weekend party house
Loud minority of older people take selfish attitude
Democratic representatives or government tools?
Decline in non-compliance is deemed to be acceptable
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Defibrillators for Wagstaffe and Killcare
Memory walk for dementia body
Fundraising barbecue
Physiotherapist is outstanding employee finalist
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Winners of music scholarship announced
Folk club puts on two events
Bays art show is planned for July
Colouring competition for aged care residents
Artist launches art classes for adults
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
Pretty Beach principal retires
Pacific island group at risk of collapse
Breakfast club to be extended
Three teams in cheer and dance finals
Arts students camp at Cockatoo Island
School reviews both winter and summer uniforms
First debates in debating challenge
Uniform shop seeks donations
Support unit students enjoy arboretum
New lambs at Umina campus
Rotary Club hears about mentoring program
Grant to install bush tucker garden and dreaming trail
Ettalong students take part in simultaneous storytime
Year 2 students visit zoo
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Under-15s captain celebrates 150 games
Southern and Ettalong loses top spot on women's ladder
Woy Woy defeated by Hornsby in rugby union
Gold medal in vision-impaired games
Selected for junior squad
Soccer camp to be held in Woy Woy
Celebrating 50 years of Buckworth Shield
Basketball returns
Volunteers honoured

Decline in non-compliance is deemed to be acceptable

The Council's express 24-hour development application assessment process will certainly be responsible for increasing the number of development applications for the Peninsula.

Assisting this process is the advice from the applicant DA56500 (Peninsula News edition 470).

Attracting support for any Peninsula development from Council staff and councillors requires the addition of a roof terrace bar and pool.

Assurance that these two low-cost additions to a development will support tourism and the local economy is more than sufficient to outweigh all other issues, thus assuring approval.

Before submissions close, I am confident this application will be approved despite the public's concerns and non- compliance.

The report in Peninsula News edition 470 includes comments on over shadowing and mid-winter solar access.

It is pointless commenting on these issues as they are both now regarded as insignificant.

The latest example of this practice is approval of the development at the Farnell Rd, Woy Woy, approved despite non-compliance to solar access.

My suggestion to the editor and staff is to omit comments on solar access and overshadowing, with an informed comment on why these two issues are irreverent.

This will assist the community when making submissions on DAs.

I have reported that the Department of Planning and Environment has adopted overshadowing and solar access non-compliance practice for Gosford's City Centre revitalisation.

Though solar access was non-compliant, the Department deemed further decline was acceptable: A permanent non-compliance issue, of no interest to the authorities.

Reality will not be freely advertised by the Central Coast Council.

No doubt Peninsula residents have identified many other permanent non-compliant issues.





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