Council is asking Sydney and Canberra to fund $550 million of Coast projects. Here is the list
The refreshed Key Enabling Projects wishlist, every costed item from the Gosford waterfront to a northern aquatic centre.
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.
- Capital works this year$348.9m
- Added for local priorities$38m
- Held against cost blowouts$22m
Decisions
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.
Wamberal’s erosion plan is certified. What that actually unlocks
Sand nourishment over a buried rock revetment is now the locked-in preferred fix, and the grant door is open.
The data desk
The Coast is forecast to grow by 64,000 people by 2046. A quarter of them land around Warnervale
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.
People added by 2046, top four districts
Source: forecast.id population summary, 2021-2046. Full chart and methodology in the story.
Around the Coast
Seven projects, $4 million: the new federal money for Tuggerah Lakes
Saltmarsh repair, flushing trials and a litter boat for the three lakes and four waterways. Saltmarsh work has already started.
Woy Woy Road’s crash-prone Kariong stretch gets $1.6 million for a safety upgrade
A median barrier and high-friction pavement for the kilometre south of Staples Lookout, on a road carrying 20,000 vehicles a day.
A century on the beach and zero drownings on patrol: Terrigal’s record season
852 members, 7,059 patrol hours, 137,852 beachgoers protected: the season behind back-to-back Club of the Year.
From the Record
News tells you what changed this week. The Record keeps what stays true: the places, projects and sagas the stories return to, cited and dated.
Wamberal Beach erosion
The saga, from first exhibition to certification.
The Tuggerah Lakes system
Three lakes, four waterways, one restoration effort.
How the council works
People in role, meeting rhythms, benchmarks.
What’s being built
Under way, funded this year, or wishlist.
The Art House, Wyong
The Coast’s main theatre, a decade in.
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