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The West Street, Umina Beach carpark has been announced as included in the proposed Central Coast Council sell-offs and State Member for Gosford, Ms Liesl Tesch says the community is not happy.
The community and local businesses are furious about the proposal labelling it another blow after an already tumultuous year of the COVID-19 pandemic and Central Coast Council’s financial position.
Michael Cunico, owner of Chemist Outlet at Umina Beach says this impact will be devastating.
“We’ve run the pharmacy and post office boxes here for 22 years and the sell-off of the carpark would be absolutely devastating to our business and every other one in Umina.
“Customers have to access their post boxes through the laneway, as was stipulated in the DA when the building was originally formed and the removal of the carpark would severely impact this.”
“All the businesses around here also use this laneway as a loading and unloading area and if it wasn’t here we’d have to block the main street of Umina to perform these tasks.”
“The main street is already busy and it is already difficult to find a park. Taking away 160 car spaces will only make this harder and force people to shop elsewhere.”
Liesl Tesch MP, Member for Gosford says the sale cannot go ahead.
“Parking is already a huge problem on the Peninsula and the loss of this carpark would only add to the already prevalent dilemma facing our community.”
“This carpark is central to the community who use the resource to visit the chemist, the doctors, the local grocers, florists and cafes.”
“Removing accessibility to these businesses, which is exactly what this carpark provides, will have a huge consequence for our community from business owners to shoppers.”
Liesl Tesch has started a petition calling on the NSW Government to remove the sale of the carpark from the list of potential sell-offs.
“We know all too well the consequence privatisation has at every level of our lives and we cannot allow our assets to float into the hands of developers who do not have our community interests at heart.”
“Come to my office or register in the Petition online to push the Minister for Local Government and the Administrator of Central Coast Council to remove this from their long list of sell-offs.”
