Regional Development Australia

CENTRAL COAST

REGIONAL SNAPSHOT

2016

Regional Infrastructure Priorities

Perhaps the greatest challenge facing the Central Coast region

is to create local job opportunities to match labour force growth,

whilst protecting the Region’s natural environment. The proportion

of the adult workforce commuting out of the Region for work is 23

per cent, resulting in a range of specific infrastructure and social

challenges. The Region needs to leverage its location between

the global city of Sydney and regional city of Newcastle, and

increase employment self-containment, to reduce the need for out

commuting. Providing capacity for over 24,674 new jobs over the

next 20 years will help ensure a robust and adaptable economy.

The economic base of the Central Coast is varied and covers

many sectors. Key economic sectors include health care and

social assistance, manufacturing (in particular food product

manufacturing), retail, construction, tourism, agriculture, service

industries and property and business services.

Sectors expected to experience strong growth over the next 25

years include food production, wholesaling, retailing, property

and business services, tourism, health services, cultural and

recreational services and personal services.

Strengths of the Central Coast’s economy include innovative

small manufacturers, competitiveness in logistics, strong

growth in building and construction, food production,

hospitality and tourism.

The key economic and transport challenges include:

• Ensuring that sufficient employment lands and commercial

office space is provided in appropriate locations to

accommodate growth in existing and emerging industries

and businesses.

• Increasing and diversifying job opportunities and increasing

the level of employment self containment.

• Promoting innovation and skills development within the

Region whilst supporting and strengthening the existing

employment base to help key industries achieve

critical mass.

• Encouraging and investigating opportunities to diversify

the Region’s economy protecting existing and proposed

transport corridors within the Region and to

surrounding regions.

• Capitalising on the Region’s position between Sydney and

Newcastle to market the Region as a business location.

• Supporting and strengthening tourism opportunities as well

as managing the impact of seasonal population fluctuations

on the Region’s environment and infrastructure.

Regional Development Australia Central Coast has coordinated

the development of the Regional Infrastructure Priorities List

which provides an agreed list of the key infrastructure needed on

the Central Coast to grow investment and employment.

The agreed 2016 / 2017 Central Coast Regional Infrastructure

Priorities are:

REGIONAL ROADS & TRANSPORT

Bus Rapid Transit

Central Coast Regional Airport

Etna Street & Donnison Street Bridges

Link Road

Watanobbi to Sparks Road

North Warnervale Railway Station

Pacific Highway Widening, Wyong Town Centre

Rawson Rd Underpass

Sparks Road Improvement Plan

Tuggerah Railway Station

Wiseman Ferry Rd

Woy Woy Wharf

SPORT & CULTURE: VISITOR ECONOMY

Adcock Park

Avoca Beach Foreshore

Winney Bay Clifftop Walkway

REGIONAL WATER SECURITY & SEWER UPGRADES

Gosford CBD Trunk Sewer Relocation

Mangrove Creek Dam

Mardi Water Treatment Plant

Unserviced Development Areas - Sewer, Gosford

EDUCATION

Central Coast University at Warnervale / Smarts Hub at

Central Coast University

Access to International, National and Regional Markets