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19 Sep 2022
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Coastal Twist Festival starts Tuesday, September 27
Visual arts exhibition
Foxy Silvers Waterfront Picnic
Free youth 'pink light' fluoro dance party
Design thinking and innovation workshop
Drag Bingo
Free beach picnic party day
Fair day is festival centrepiece
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Court approves five-storey plan after council agrees
Gone fishing
Aboriginal skipper qualifies as First Fleet class master
CWA branch has lunch to 'support local business'
Men's Shed holds members' barbecue
Mingaletta invites residents to drop in
Coronavirus cases drop by half since August
Rip bridge construction photos displayed at library
Month's average rainfall in first 16 days
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Revised plans lodged in response to submissions
Dual occupancy claims to be within required setbacks
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Portal issues continue as non-compliant DA is approved
'Housing summit' supports massive Ponzi scheme
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Folk club to showcase some of greatest musicians
Flash Festival to be held next weekend
Patchwork group has 'wonky piecing workshop'
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
'Mrs Lunch' retires after 27 years
Jeans day raises $677 for medical research
Day at reptile park
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Ettalong has resounding pennant win over Wyong
Starred in pennant win
Canoe club celebrates 25 years
Umina takes three of top four carnival places
Volunteer training for disabled surfing
Umina Beach Women's Kingfisher Carnival
Over-45 men win soccer grand finals
Under-14s take out the double
Ettalong triples championships
Woy Woy juniors play in Broken Bay championships

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Portal issues continue as non-compliant DA is approved

As we see Ettalong change drastically with the 52-unit building take place, a few doors further down along Ocean View Rd another five-storey DA has now been approved after a hearing in the Land and Environment Court.

Central Coast Council received submissions on DA5779 from 61 members of the public, which have been overruled as another non-compliant building gets pushed into the village of Ettalong.

To make matters worse, Central Coast Council planning department then sent a letter to all the people who made a submission with a webvlink that does not work for most people.

Initial responses from the council planning department were not helpful - providing further non-functional links.

After further investigation and escalations, a new working link was made available to the public and the letters re-issued.

This is again another example of the continued issues and problems with new council planning portal introduced last December.

Council is gradually working on these issues.

However, they have been caught up in a backlog with staffing issues and other workload.

Key outstanding issues are the slow speed to download documents, the inaccessibility of exhibition dates and the difficulty in making a submission from a search.

All these used to be available before the December system "upgrade".

We can only hope that Dr Howe's council department is able to prioritise these issues to bring back missing features and help regain public confidence.

The Peninsula Residents Association works to increase liveability with future development on the Peninsula and to improve planning processes.

New members may join at https://www.peninsularesidents.org.au/





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