Central Coast Council is getting on with the job of delivering essential services and quality infrastructure on the Coast, and this financial year is shaping up to be one of the biggest yet.

Council’s key priority this year is to improve our local roads and drainage networks, water and sewerage infrastructure, lakes and environment, open space and recreational projects, and to manage waste effectively throughout the Coast.

Council is responsible for managing an expenditure budget of $724 million and over $11 billion in assets in the best interests of our community.

A comprehensive and collaborative operational plan and budget identifying what our community wants, needs and values has been designed for this financial year. Projects currently underway or recently completed include:

• Animal welfare shelter upgrade at Charmhaven
• Somersby Industrial Park, Somersby
• The Entrance playground upgrade
• Bay Road, The Entrance upgrade
• Budgewoi Lake Foreshore upgrade
• Soldiers Beach Dune Restoration project
• Long Jetty carpark upgrade
• Kananga Drive, Gwandalan upgrade
• Saltwater Creek Reserve boat ramp upgrade
• Hume Boulevard, Killarney Vale upgrade
• The Art House, Wyong
• Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade
• Woy Woy Road and Banjo Close intersection upgrade
• Murray Street, Booker Bay partial reconstruction
• Lone Pine Avenue, Umina Beach partial reconstruction
• Showground Road partial road pavement improvement
• Shared pathway at Shellys Beach, connecting to Bato Yard.

Council staff have powered on since the start of 2016, with the completion of major projects including a new skate place at Bateau Bay, a new play space at Narara Valley, new multipurpose courts at Tunkawallin Oval, an upgrade to Long Jetty foreshore, as well as new shared pathways at Magenta and the Peninsula.

Other key projects to be delivered include:

• Gosford Avenue, The Entrance makeover
• Audie Parade, Berkley Vale road upgrade
• Buckingham Road and Blenheim, Killarney Vale upgrade
• Goorama Street, San Remo upgrade
• Murral and Kilpa Road, Wallarah upgrade
• Colongra Bay Road, upgrade
• Lakes Beach footpath upgrade
• Tall Timbers Road, Lake Munmorah footpath upgrade
• Terrigal boat ramp upgrade
• Bald and Maitland Street, Norah Head.

During this year’s Federal Election campaign, the Government identified the Central Coast as an important, growing region and pledged to inject millions of dollars for major infrastructure.
Some major projects from this pledge will include: $3 million for Tuggerah Lakes Restoration Project, $4.9 million for a new ambulance station at Wyong,

$4.2 million for a new ambulance station in Toukley, $368 million to develop Gosford Hospital, $304,000 towards amenities at McEvoy Oval at Umina Beach, and $25 million on the Warnervale Link Road.

Council is pleased to see both the State and Federal Governments identify the Coast as an area of significance, and welcomes the benefits these projects will have on community wellbeing.
We will continue to lobby for more funding and, in the meantime, are pleased to welcome this focus on the Coast.

Council will also continue to play our part in delivering the infrastructure our growing community need, want and value.