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This time of the year is the season for Awards, all the business and industry associations hold their annual awards recognising excellence and achievement. Some are popularity contests run by organisations for their own self-interest. Others are genuine in that...

The history of tourism on the Central Coast goes back more than 80 years.  To a time when Sydney’s blue-collar workers packed up their tents, hooked up their caravans and spent the summer school holidays across the whole of the...

The 2024 Local Government elections will be held next year on the 14th of September bringing to a close three years during which Central Coast Council has been under Administration. It goes without saying that the few short years in...

This month we are proud to publish Sydney’s Central Coast – 2023-24 Central Coast Investment Prospectus. An initiative of CCBR, we have been proudly publishing this Prospectus each year for thirty years. It was the first regional investment prospectus published...

Our front cover story for this month is a report on one of the Central Coast’s oldest manufacturers, the Chamberlain Group, and their confidence in investing $28 million in a new facility at Somersby in conjunction with the Central Coast’s...

Time for State Government to take control of planning at Central Coast Council The amalgamation of Gosford and Wyong Councils in 2016 was heralded as an opportunity for the Central Coast to look to the future with confidence and prosperity....

It was a very small window, just three years, during the time of the McKinna/Anderson Council that would change Gosford. Prior to that Gosford Council, for over 40 years opposed almost every development proposal that came its way. Today, we...

We all accept that the 2016 forced merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils has been a disaster right from start. The first phase in the amalgamation of Central Coast Council saw the Administrator back off from anything contentious leaving it...

Two articles in this issue of CCBR highlight the region’s chronic need for industrial zoned land which is aggravated by Council’s reluctance to get the message and support developers trying to bring land to market. Our article on Page 17...

After twelve years in the wilderness the Central Coast could be coming in from the cold following the March 2023 State Election. From the time they were elected the Liberal government identified with Western Sydney and they threw billions at...