Central Coast Council has launched its Key Enabling Projects 2025: Central Coast Region document, which identifies priority infrastructure and investment projects aimed to benefit residents, businesses and visitor across the region.

A key purpose of the document is to highlight projects that are funding ready and which will make a  difference to the Central Coast region by providing opportunities for improved sustainability, liveability and economic growth.

Council is now calling on Federal and State governments, industry bodies, specialty groups and private enterprise to partner with Council to help deliver on these, and other priorities.

Council Mayor Lawrie McKinna said the Key Enabling Projects 2025 document clearly lays out what both Council and the community want to see delivered to transform our region.

“I believe that partnerships with government and collaboration with industry groups and our community around accessibility, housing, employment, recreation and environmental sustainability are essential in managing the Central Coast’s predicted growth.

“Council has already proven it can work successfully in partnership with government and other key stakeholders, having delivered some major developments over the last decade. However, with a growing population, we must form ongoing partnerships with State and Federal Government to secure funding for projects that build our region and make a difference in the community.”

The document outlines the make-up of the Central Coast, its population, employment levels, number of dwellings, language spoken in households, numbers of families, where people work, and how they get to work.  

It also identifies key growth areas being Gosford, Greater Warnervale, the Woy Woy Peninsula and Greater Lake Munmorah, with some key enabling projects in each of those areas.

Community priorities are also identified, noting the Central Coast population is expected to grow by nearly 14% over the next 20 years (351,934 in 2023 to a projected 400,878 in 2041).  Advocacy for affordable housing is prominent in the document.

The cost of many of the Key Enabling projects are also laid out in the document including:  
•    $35 million for the development of a Food Organics and Garden Organics services and associated infrastructure.
•    $155 million for sewage treatment plant major works across the Coast
•    $2.5 million for the Warnervale Business Precinct

“Council must continue to partner with government and other organisations to address key priorities to support our communities and create positive change,” Mayor McKinna said.

Council will now present the document to government and industry groups to progress the identified projects and partnerships.