And they're off

The Bay-to-Bay half marathon started at Woy Woy Wharf at 8:30am yesterday.

The run took the back

streets of Woy Woy before taking the waterfront path back to Lions Park and Woy Woy, then on to Gosford.

Winner was

Boris Blanc with a time of 1:09:45. Fastest woman was Natalea Smith with a time of 1:20:01.

SOURCE:

Website, 14 Jun 2026

Bay-to-Bay Running Festival

Council proposes 4.1 hectare expansion of Woy Woy tip

Central Coast Council has submitted its own development application for a staged expansion of the Woy Woy tip on Nagari Rd.

The proposal seeks to establish a new 4.1-hectare "Eastern Storage Platform" to stockpile material on-site.

Because of its scale and nature, the project has been classified as both a "designated development" and a "regionally-significant development".

Council recently received approval for a new "south cell", which is where "operational materials" are currently stockpiled.

Once the South Cell begins accepting waste that storage area will be lost.

Council proposes to clear four hectares of bushland, construct access tracks, drainage paths and a sediment basin in the first stage of the expansion.

The second stage excavates a total of 650,000 cubic metres of "natural material" over 10 years.

The platform would serve as an operational pad to generate daily waste cover, to construct landfill cell walls, and as a temporary store for "minor recyclables" like mattresses for shredding.

An Environmental Impact Statement says that purchasing the same material off-site would cost $5 million a year, including a $174.20 per tonne NSW Government Waste Levy.

It would also substantially increase heavy vehicle traffic on Peninsula roads.

The project would secure the continuation of landfill operations, retaining 15 permanent jobs at the tip.

Of the 4.1-hectare project footprint, a total of 3.92 hectares of native vegetation will be completely cleared.

Because of this, Council would have to purchase biodiversity offsets and ecosystem credits under the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.

The statement identifies potential water quality risks to Woy Woy Creek.

The application states that this would be managed with a Soils and Water Management Plan and a progressively-expanded sediment basin.

An Air Quality Impact Assessment says that dust is the primary emission of concern, rather than offensive odours

Council would adopt dust suppression measures and would monitor air quality visually without a dedicated air quality monitoring station physically located at the tip.

Ambient air quality tracking would rely on data captured by the Wyong Air Quality Monitoring Station.

As a regionally-significant development, the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel would determine the application.

The application states that an "organisational firewall" separates the council's waste operational arm from its development assessment unit, which prevent conflicts of interest.

On its Your Voice Our Coast website, the Council has claimed the project is not an expansion of the tip.

"It is not a proposal for a new landfill in this location, and this area is not proposed to be used as future landfill," the website states.

During previous public consultations, residents from nearby areas like Umina and Ettalong raised objections about foul odours, heavy traffic, and falling property values.

The Council website stated that these issues stem from the approved South Cell landfill expansion and are "outside the scope" of this application.

The exhibition period for the application closes on Wednesday, July 8, giving residents just a lttle over three weeks from today to review 12 documents with a total of more than 720 pages of text before making a formal submission.

A "drop-in session" will be held at the tip in Nagari Rd from 12pm to 3:30pm on Wednesday, July 1, just a week before submissions close.

SOURCE:

DA Tracker, 14 Jun 2026

DA/777/2026, Central Coast Council