Central Coast Council’s newly adopted Engagement Strategy reinforces its commitment to strengthening communication and collaboration with the community.Adopted at Council’s Ordinary Meeting on 25 March 2025, the strategy sets out clear principles and guidelines for engaging with residents, ensuring they understand their rights and have meaningful opportunities to shape plans and projects for the Central Coast.It’s essential that the community has an opportunity to have their say on the strategies, plans and decisions that affect them.

Our Disability Inclusion Action Plan (2021-2025) details the strategies and actions Council is implementing to enable people with disabilities to better access mainstream services, facilities and open spaces. Highlights of some delivered actions from the current Disability Inclusion Action Plan (2021-25)Attitudes and behavioursVirtual Reality experiences to promote understanding and awareness.Council launched the Sunflower Campaign on International Day of People with Disability.Invisible Disabilities Awareness campaign.Shared Pathways are for Everyone wayfinding project.Accessible Brochures developed on nature and beach destinations and playspaces. Liveable CommunitiesAccessible and Inclusive pottery program.Accessible adult changing facilities installed at The Entrance Visitor.

We are calling on locals with lived experience of disability to share their ideas to improve access and inclusion for people with disability who live, work and play on the Central Coast. Feedback from a range of in-person and online engagement activities will be used by Council to develop the next Disability Inclusion Action Plan for 2026-30.Community consultation Online survey – learn more and provide feedback by Friday 9 May at yourvoiceourcoast.comCommunity workshop - Thursday 8 May, 5pm to 7pm - Council Administration Building, 2 Hely St, Wyong.Shopping centre pop-up - Wednesday 7 May, 10am to 12:30 pm – Tuggerah Westfield Our Disability Inclusion Action Plan sets out achievable and practical steps to make our community more accessible and inclusive .

Central Coast Council offices will be closed over the Easter long weekend from close of business on Thursday 17 April 2025, re-opening 8.30am Tuesday 22 April 2025, and again closed ANZAC Day on Friday 25 April 2025.Some of Council’s services and facilities will be closed or have changes, however essential services will remain open. View ANZAC Day service and road closure information. Customer service and reporting of issuesAll Customer Service Centres will be closed.Urgent reports - We have an out-of-hours service available on 02 4306 7900 to call in any urgent reports such as water main breaks, sewer issues or urgent road safety issues (such as fallen trees over roads).Non-urgent - Customers can contact Council with non-emergency enquiries, requests, reporting issues or formal feedback 24/7 through our online Customer Service Centre.

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Central Coast Council is inviting all local skaters and scooter riders to jump on board and help design the brand-new Frost Reserve Skate Park. This engagement process, featuring an online survey and interactive workshops, aims to gather community feedback to ensure the upgraded skate park meets the needs of varying ages and abilities, delivers a bigger and better skate park, aligning with broader reserve upgrades.The current skate park at Frost Reserve is ageing and no longer adequately serves our community, and so Council is undertaking a major upgrade, expanding the skate park’s size from 200sqm to 750sqm, and incorporating diverse features to cater to a wide range of abilities.In addition to the skate park, essential infrastructure works, including a new amenities building, carpark upgrade, and sports field lighting upgrades are planned.This is the community’s opportunity to help shape the new skate park and surrounding area at Frost Reserve.By sharing your ideas, you’re helping Council design a skate park that reflects the community’s aspiration and needs, ensuring everyone feels welcome and excited to use the space.Engagement activities include:Online survey.

Central Coast Council is taking strong action against illegal camping, with increased ranger patrols, new signage and stricter penalties to protect public spaces for both residents and visitors.With Easter approaching and a surge in visitors expected, Council is reminding the community that camping in residential streets, beach carparks and nature reserves is prohibited.To keep public spaces safe and accessible for everyone, ranger patrols will now operate seven days a week, from early morning and overnight, with fines issued to those who do not comply with the signposted rules.

Col is a retired Head Teacher of Science, spending about 35 years of his career teaching on the Central Coast.Quoting Col, he ‘has never really retired but doesn’t get paid any more’.The first decade of Col’s retirement was spent at the Marine Discovery Centre (where he still volunteers), later discovering bush regeneration as a means of exercise during the COVID-19 lockdowns.Approximately three years ago Col started volunteering with the Central Coast Council Environmental Volunteer Program, initially with our Monday Nursery Volunteer group and then also with our Seed Collectors and some of the conservation groups in the Avoca area.Col’s passion these days is propagating plants for dune and bush restoration and trying to encourage the planting of the local pigface (Carpobrotus glaucesscens) rather than ‘other strays’.It was at one of the Monday Nursery Volunteer sessions that Col introduced the group to some of his bush poetry and the character of Jock, an alter-ego amalgamating elements from wonderful characters he met during three years working in the Central West, as well as from uncles, a great uncle and a father-in-law, who all liked to retell their yarns.I hope you’ll enjoy one of Jock’s tales as much as we all did during our nursery volunteer session. We’d love to have more stories from our volunteer network.

We are undertaking significant upgrades at Frost Reserve in Kincumber to enhance the facilities for our community.

The NSW Government has a Hawkesbury and Nepean River Basin flood warning improvement project underway which aims to support the implementation of improvements to existing flood warning services on a priority basis.The Hawkesbury-Nepean basin was identified as a high priority, high risk catchment by the Independent Flood Inquiry (NSW Parliament, 2022) and the local government areas in this catchment due to the impact of the February/March 2022 floods.This project was part of the fourth work package to be rolled out as part of the broader NSW flood warning improvement project.