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Warnervale Airport to go

Warnervale Airport is one step closer to becoming an industrial park as negotiations between the Central Coast Aero Club, Wyong Council and property developer Mirvac become more serious to buy the thirty-three hectare site.

Wyong Council leased the airport to the Aero Club on a thirty year lease in around 1990.

Subsequently, in about 1993, a local consortium put up a proposal to redevelop the airport as a regional airport and operate an interstate airline that would also be locally owned.

The issue became a debacle as anti-airport activists whipped up community support against it.

In a vote grabbing move supporting the protesters the Labor Member for Wyong at the time introduced a Private Members Bill that effectively stopped any growth at the airport including air traffic movements, and killed off the proposal and any future expansion of the airport.

Mirvac has been negotiating with the Aero Club since 2007 to buy out the lease of the airport for a reported $20 million that would pay out the lease to Council and put the Club in a position to relocate to the airport at Belmont which Mirvac gained control of in 2007.

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