No vision or drive

Gosford Council has spent thousands of our dollars on their "Gosford Challenge" in yet another attempt to rejuvenate the city.

Now council is sending a delegation to China "in the hope of attracting a traditional Chinese medicine university campus to the city centre".

What utter nonsense!

Why would anyone want to invest in Gosford after council buried Spurbest's proposed development for the city centre in a deliberate public campaign led by Cr Chris Holstein?

We all recall the demise of the Terrigal Rapedo development and today it is still a vacant block in the middle of Terrigal town centre.

Now we have council's opposition to the Ettalong Tesrol development which will ensure that prime beachfront real estate will remain vacant for another 10 years as no one in their right mind will want to invest millions only to go broke.

In the Hunter region, we watch with envy the area growing with manufacturing, mining, agriculture, the wine industry, the Newcastle airport, a shipping port, defence industries and developing into one of the largest tourist attractions in the country.

Yet, the Central Coast's only growth is in the NIMBY (not in my back yard) syndrome led by an anti-development, anti-tourism, anti-investment and anti-jobs council.

Many of us lament the fact that this council has absolutely no vision or drive to progress our city. We hear all the rhetoric but see little or no action.

We're kidding ourselves if potential investors will want to ever consider investing in Gosford.

Letter, 11 Jun 2010 Janice Kissane, Umina Beach