“Air service for Wyong Shire to be discussed“, Central Coast Newspapers, 17 October 1973
This article documents one of the earliest public planning disputes surrounding the establishment of Warnervale Airstrip (now Warnervale Airport). By October 1973, the Central Coast Aero Club had progressed from proposing an airstrip to formally challenging Wyong Shire Council’s refusal of its development application.
Rather than abandoning the proposal, the Aero Club escalated the matter to the State Planning Authority and sought a collaborative meeting involving state and local government alongside the Department of Civil Aviation. The article also shows that discussion was beginning to shift beyond the single airstrip proposal towards the broader issue of providing adequate aviation infrastructure for Wyong Shire.
This clipping is significant because it illustrates the beginning of what would become a lengthy political and planning struggle over aviation facilities on the Central Coast—one that continued for decades before Warnervale Airport eventually became established.
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