Get Active – San Remo and Blue Haven is back in 2023 supporting the San Remo and Blue Haven communities to be more physically active and increase awareness of local sport and active recreation providers, facilities, and opportunities.This initiative is a partnership between the Office of Sport, Central Coast Council and Central Coast Local Health District’s Health Promotion Service. Get Active San Remo and Blue Haven will see the creation of a calendar of activities offered throughout the month of October, providing a wide range of sport and recreation opportunities for everyone, from individuals to families, and people of all ages. If you provide – or would like to provide – sport, active recreation or physical activity opportunities in the San Remo, Blue Haven or surrounding suburbs, we would love to discuss this opportunity with you and help you to be involved.There are many benefits to being part of this project including increased awareness of your services in the community, contributing to improving the lives of community members, the potential to secure new participants and volunteers and the opportunity to gain a valuable insight into what the community is looking for in a sporting club or active recreation provider.The 2022 event saw 176 individual participation opportunities offered to the community from 35 different local providers. Interested in the project and want to know more?

A large percentage of Council’s operating budget is invested in roads, drainage, pathways and related infrastructure each year, but with extensive networks to manage and maintain, we can’t fund it alone. Council continues to advocate and secure grant funding from the Australian (Federal) and New South Wales (State) Governments to assist in the management and improvements of our vast networks.Council has been successful in securing grant funding under several Australian and New South Wales grant funding programs which is seeing extensive road repair and renewal works undertaken along with road and drainage upgrades, pathway projects, natural disaster remediation, public transport facilities, and safety improvements over the coming years.Additionally, Council utilises developer contribution funding to help fund road and drainage works.

We continue to roll out a sustained program of works to deliver road improvements and maintenance.Some of the road works this week include:•    Berkley Vale, Lakedge Ave - road resurfacing•    Central Mangrove, The Link Road - road grading•    Central Mangrove, Wisemans Ferry Road -road shoulder maintenance•    Fountaindale, Peach Orchard Road - road shoulder maintenance•    Green Point, Copacabana, East Gosford, North Gosford, Umina Beach - potholes•    Greengrove, Wisemans Ferry Road - road pavement works•    Gwandalan, Lake Munmorah, Long Jetty, Ourimbah, The Entrance North, Glenning Valley - potholes•    Killarney Vale, Kilkenny Road - heavy patch•    Kulnura, Parakula Road - road grading•    Mangrove Mountain, Kirks Road - road grading•    Niagara Park, Narooma Rd - kerb &

Council’s libraries are calling on the community to complete a customer satisfaction online survey about its membership services which opens today and is accessible on Council’s Your Voice Our Coast community engagement platform. This data as well as information from a range of other stakeholders will be used to develop a future vision with accompanying goals and objectives for the library service as part of a a five-year strategic plan that will ensure our libraries are agile and adapt to the changing needs of our very diverse community.

Each week, we have road work underway across the Coast to deliver improvements and maintenance works.

Each week, we have road work underway across the Coast to deliver improvements and maintenance works.

Join us to celebrate National Tree Day on Sunday 30 July at our community planting events at Killcare Beach and Porters Creek Wetland, Wyong.National Tree Day is initiative led by Planet Ark, who aim to plant one million trees across Australia this year - with our local planting events contributing to this goal. This year you can also enjoy a range of educational workshops, kids’ activities including animal displays, and live music supported by Central Coast Music.

Several Central Coast Council community spaces and facilities have been the target of a senseless spree of vandalism over the weekend - forcing the closure of some public and disabled toilets during the peak school holiday period and requiring expensive clean up and repairs.Council Director of Infrastructure Services, Boris Bolgoff said that seven public toilet amenities were vandalised over the weekend with three requiring temporary closure due to fire damage.“Council staff have already assessed, cleaned up and re-opened some of the facilities, however some public toilets located at The Entrance and Long Jetty were so badly damaged that sections of the facilities will be temporarily closed until the extensive repair work can be undertaken,” Mr Bolgoff said.Vandalised public toilets which are temporarily closed include:Gladstan Ave, Long Jetty public toilets due to fire damage.Saltwater Creek, Long Jetty disabled toilets due fire damage.Picnic Point, The Entrance disabled toilet facility due to fire damage.Vandalised spaces, which are open include:Wiles Ave, Wamberal Beach public toilets.

Your Council rates for 2023-24 explainedResidents of the Central Coast will soon receive their rates notice towards the end of July 2023.

Central Coast Council adopted the 2023-24 Operational Plan on June 27 at its Ordinary Council MeetingThe Operational Plan identifies a focus on maintaining our road networks, caring for community open space, as well as working on improving the response time for development applications.