Various road treatments that cover the life cycle of the road are underway this week, with crews filling potholes (as the first level of maintenance to keep the road safe in the short term) through to longer term treatments such as heavy patching and road rehabilitation.

Central Coast Council is encouraging the community to attend a free outdoor movie night at the welcoming town centres of Toukley, Gosford and Wyong across the Coast these school holidays.The free open-air cinema nights are aimed to activate spaces and places to complement other activities within the town centres for families, community and visitors while supporting small businesses.

We are so fortunate on the Central Coast to be surrounded by diverse ecosystems bursting with an amazing array of biodiversity from the hinterland to the coast.

Central Coast Council has launched an annual Community Engagement Plan 2023-24 that seeks to address community concerns about having more awareness of forward community engagement activities being undertaken by Council.The annual Community Engagement Plan will be available for the community to view on Council’s Your Voice Our Coast website and will be updated quarterly in line with Council’s quarterly reporting cycle.Council’s engagement platform, Your Voice Our Coast sees an average of 98,000 unique visits annually hosting a range of projects from infrastructure delivery to policy updates.While Council regularly informs the community and does see high engagement, we are always looking at ways we can improve.By showcasing our upcoming engagement activities, the annual plan will enable a more inclusive process for community engagement, as the community can view other projects that have not yet commenced engagement activities and share a preliminary comment on or even opt in to stay updated.While this is an exciting step for our engagement with the community it is also a timely reminder that planned activities may change and additional engagement activities may be identified as we progress projects.Council is committed to building strong relationships and delivering a great customer experience in all our interactions.This plan will help to engage and communicate openly and honestly with the community to build a relationship based on trust, transparency, respect and use community participation and feedback to inform decision making.This plan is a roadmap for the community to ensure a balanced and collaborative decision-making process between the community and Council is achieved.View the Community Engagement Plan at yourvoiceourcoast.com/engagementplan and sign up to Council’s eNews to have your say.

Crews are out-and-about this week undertaking road maintenance to protect and renew our road network, along with road pavement works.Some of the work this week includes:Road rehabilitation continues at Jilliby (Hue Hue Rd)Heavy patching (to treat a larger section of the road pavement) is underway at •    Warnervale.

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Each week, we have road work underway across the Coast to deliver improvements and maintenance works.Some of the works occurring this week include: 🚧Pothole filling at Bensville, Berkeley Vale, Chittaway Bay, Chittaway Point, Copacabana, Lisarow, North Avoca, North Gosford, Picketts Valley, The Entrance, The Entrance North, Yarramalong🚧 Road rehabilitation at Jilliby (Hue Hue Rd)🚧 Heavy patching at Glenning Valley (Lees Lane), and Halloran (Mountain Road)🚧 Road grading on various Laneways at Umina Beach and Woy Woy, and also at Kulnura (Yorky Waters Road and Walkers Ridge), Lower Mangrove (Oyster Shell Road)🚧 Road shoulder maintenance at Somersby (Wisemans Ferry Road)Please report or enquire about specific road issues (or projects) through our online customer service centre, or call 02 4306 7900.DID YOU KNOW? Where potholes consistently reoccur or the road deteriorates further during its life cycle, a more substantial and longer lasting heavy patch repair is considered - based on what has been done to date, the risk profile and what renewal work is planned for that section of the road. Heavy patching is an asphalt patching technique to treat a larger section of the road pavement.

Central Coast Council continues to deliver a range of grant funded road and drainage upgrade and renewal projects under the Federal Government’s Central Coast Roads Package.The Australian Government grant funded Central Coast Roads Package supports the delivery of road infrastructure projects including road and drainage upgrade and renewal projects.Project update:

Council has developed online flood risk tools and updated flood and emergency planning information on centralcoast.nsw.gov.au, to help the local community understand their own flood risk and be adequately prepared to respond.We have experienced various types of flooding on the Central Coast and know that flooding will continue to be part of our lives, and can occur at any moment.Whilst it’s not always possible to predict when, where, or how big the next flood will be - we can estimate the likelihood of different sizes of floods and their consequences by using computer flood modelling.Our new interactive online flood risk mapping tool for Tuggerah Lakes area, draws on current flood levels directly from the Bureau of Meteorology and converts it into a visual display, which shows the extent of current, minor, moderate or major flood levels for specific properties in the area.

Four vehicle and pedestrian access points at Soldiers and Jenny Dixon Beaches that were damaged by severe storms in 2021 will be replaced or repaired with $2.44 million in funding provided by the Australian and NSW Governments as part of the Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Program.Royal Haskoning DHV are currently in the design stage of three of the four projects;Soldiers Beach vehicle access rampSoldiers Beach northern stairs Jenny Dixon stairsThe fourth project is the Soldiers Beach stair access in front of the Surf Life Saving Club and as of Monday 7 August stair extension works will begin.