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Council

What Central Coast Council decided and what it costs you: budgets, rates and charges, read from the adopted documents.

Council money

Council adopts a $348.9 million works budget: what gets built near you in 2026-27

The one document that decides what gets dug up, repaved and built across the Coast this year, place by place: $40.2 million at the Charmhaven sewage plant, $8.65 million for the Woy Woy intersection, an oval bought in Kincumber, and $38 million of added local priorities.

Published 3 July 2026

Council money

Your rates notice has a new line on it. Here is why

The stormwater charge moved from water bills to rates notices on 1 July. What changed, what did not, and where the 3.2 per cent comes from.

Published 3 July 2026