Edgar Adam's Editorial: Why are we going nowehere?

He has shown yet again that he just doesn’t get it when it comes to investment in our region. 

Knocking back the TESROL development at Ettalong Beach shows yet again that these councillors have no vision for the future of Gosford, or indeed, the Central Coast. 

They are lost in space.

Of course the TESROL development isn’t stone dead.

The Minister for Planning doesn’t have to take one scrap of notice of what the Mayor of Gosford or his Council says or does.

It has already been deemed State Significant so the Minister has the power to ignore Gosford Council and give his approval for the project to go ahead.
If he does he and the Government will get a lot of brownie points that will translate into votes in March 2011. 

The Government needs to know that not everyone wants to live in the dark ages.  Just a few who are and have always been against everything.

Gosford Council’s action in respect of TESROL development and the impasse at Wyong Council over developer levies and the delays in getting the Warnervale Town Centre moving and a coincidental request from a subscriber about the Central Coast economy got us thinking.

Where is our region today compared where it was twenty years ago?

What real long term industries, companies and investors have we attracted? 

Forget about all the Woollies and Coles supermarkets and shopping centres that have been built over this time.  They are not the basis of an economy, they just feed off it.  What real employment generating industries have we attracted? 

In the end the Central Coast’s major industry is the export of labour.  Our commuter population is growing and nothing is being done to redress it.

What this all gets down to is that our councils and the councillors who we elect just don’t understand the regional economy.

So, I trust you will find our article “Time for Councillors to understand Coast’s economy” as very sobering.

And, in the end, part of the reason is that we have no strong leadership and with preferential voting on many occasions the wrong people end up representing us.
In the end it’s all pretty simple.

 All these councillors have to do is say “Yes”!

Edgar Adams
Editor

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