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How the Coast grows and moves: development plans, population forecasts and road money, cited to the documents behind them.
Transport
The 2025 airport plan rested on the State paying 80 per cent of a runway upgrade. A report to the 6 October Economic Development Committee recommends a staged model instead: keep majority ownership, consider selling part of Area 2, lease the rest as demand appears, and decide whether to seek an outside operator.
Development
Three pathways decide how long a job takes and who signs it off: exempt development needs no approval, complying development needs a certifier rather than a council assessment, and everything else needs a DA. What falls where, and the property constraint that can take the fast paths off the table before you start.
Development
Council has secured $183,231 to progress a precinct running from the University of Newcastle building to Drifters Wharf. Inside it the council sets its own sound and trading-hours rules, overriding standard consent and licence conditions. More than 800 people gave feedback and 89 per cent backed a trial; the thing they worried most about is the other side of the same lever.
Development
On 17 June 2026 the NSW Government committed $41 million to help commence the Gosford waterfront revitalisation, including a pedestrian and cycling link to Point Clare. An explainer on where the transformation stands, what the money does, and what is still just advocacy.
Transport
Transport for NSW field crews work the Erina corridor from 20 July for about two months. Survey work, not construction, backed by $115 million in federal funding and $108.2 million in the NSW Budget.
Development
Twelve social and nine affordable homes, delivered by Pacific Link Housing and built by Skope Constructions, financed by Housing Australia Future Fund loans and a NSW grant.
Development
Council’s new Accelerated Development Application process, and the backlog numbers it published alongside it: outstanding DAs down from a peak of 1,099 to 652.
Development
The refreshed Key Enabling Projects wishlist, every costed item from the Gosford waterfront to a northern aquatic centre.
Data
Council’s own forecast says the region grows 18 per cent in 25 years, but one district north of Wyong grows fifteen-fold while Gorokan, Kincumber and Long Jetty barely move. The whole table, charted and sourced.
Transport
A median barrier and high-friction pavement for the kilometre south of Staples Lookout, on a road carrying 20,000 vehicles a day.