SOS calls for rezoning

Save Our Suburbs has called on Gosford Council to rezone the land on the corner of Veron Rd and Hillview St, Woy Woy.

It has also asked it to enquire of the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay if the purchase option given to the developer had lapsed with the court decision to reject development proposed for the site.

Save Our Suburbs Central Coast secretary Mr Bryan Ellis said that, if it had, council should go into immediate negotiations for the purchase of the land.

The endangered ecological plant community on the corner of Hillview and Veron Rd, Woy Woy, which Save Our Suburbs was involved in protecting, is one step back from destruction according to Mr Ellis.

Mr Ellis said: "It was a win for common sense and future generations..

"Construction on this site would have done immeasurable damage, with no amount of replanting replacing the beauty that currently exists.

"With so little of this endangered community left, any loss of it would have been tragic."

The UCSW on the Veron Rd land is in much better condition than some of the other known UCSW sites, Mr Ellis said, and it included the intact specimen of the regionally significant corkwood Endiandra sieberi.

Press release, Febraury 23 Bryan Ellis, Save Our Suburbs