It is our intention to continue to report on the sale of public land by Central Coast Council. We consider this a matter of public interest given the total of assets sold is now more than $60 million and the council is no longer facing a liquidity crisis.
Jacquelene
Hart talks finances
“When you think about the fact we have repaid well over $¼ billion worth of debt it is massive.”
LANDFILL APPEAL DISMISSED – NEW APPROVAL NEEDED
“The development sought to be altered by Verde Terra does not answer the description of an ‘approved’ development.”
Visit the library in your own time
Library@yourtime lets inducted library members have access to the library outside regular staffed hours
Land banking contributes to housing crisis
Across the whole Central Coast there are 48,000 dwellings that have been approved and 20,000 in Gosford that have been approved and no one is building them.
Public land in Minister’s hands
“The deal is basically done. TAFE has a $2 billion operating budget so the money will come out of that. The ball is in their court. It is a big parcel of land and it is going to be fully occupied by TAFE.”
Community unites to oppose feedlot
“Living in these cramped, filthy conditions subjects the cattle to immense stress and sickness, with common painful conditions including footrot, botulism, respiratory disease and liver abscesses,” according to AL.
Advocates condemn public forum trial
How much did it cost ratepayers for Executives and staff (some possibly on overtime) to stage a non-compliant forum for just one speaker rather than letting him speak immediately before the Council Meeting as previously?
More public land on chopping block
“If Rik Hart doesn’t know the history of this community’s fight to have a performing arts centre in Gosford then he needs to do his homework before rubber stamping the staff recommendation to reclassify blocks of Mann St community land to operational land so they can be sold,” Mr Waters said.
Victoria ends native logging
It’s what we have needed for decades; to protect remaining carbon sinks, biodiversity, water catchments and First Nations culture. This is a sensible move to wind up the timber industry and transition affected workers. This is justice for climate, forests, and humanity.
