YOUR WEEKLY INDEPENDENT LOCAL NEWSPAPER
THURSDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2025
ISSUE #508
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The NSW Government’s Draft Central Coast Strategic Conservation Plan, now on public exhibition, has drawn criticism from community groups, who say it doesn’t deliver. The Community Environment Network (CEN) says it will approve the removal of between 35 million and 200 million native plants from the region’s landscapes in the name of socalled “strategic growth”. “This is being sold to the public as a conservation plan, yet more than 1,800ha of very high conservation bushland will be certified for development,” CEN Chair Gary Chestnut said. “The community must start asking
the right questions about the environmental, sustainability and development impacts of this plan. “Is this a conservation plan or a biodiversity liquidation? “Is it even appropriate to call this a Strategic Conservation Plan when 60% of the land is certified for development and only 40% is left ‘uncertified’? “To offset the destruction of local threatened flora and fauna, the Department of Planning will need to find 3,900ha of like-for-like conservation land, yet there is no guarantee those offsets will even be on the Central Coast.
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