“Airport up, up and away.” Central Coast Express Advocate, 22 May 1996.
This short report is significant because it distinguishes the proposed redevelopment of Warnervale Airport as a regional airport from the much larger concept of using Warnervale as Sydney’s second major airport.
The article appeared immediately after the Land and Environment Court rejected the residents’ challenge to the airport expansion. Despite that legal victory allowing the redevelopment to proceed, Wyong Council strategic planning director Kerry Yates emphatically rejected suggestions that the expanded airport could become Sydney’s second airport.
Yates stated that the Federal Government had investigated Warnervale during consideration of potential second-airport sites in the mid-1980s but had rejected it early in that process. He also made clear that Wyong Council did not support such a role for Warnervale.
This distinction is historically important because claims that Warnervale could develop into a major Sydney airport or large-scale aviation facility featured repeatedly in the public debate surrounding the airport. The article provides a contemporary statement from the council specifically rejecting that possibility.
It also records the relationship between the airport redevelopment and Traders Finance Australia, noting that the company became involved following Wyong Council’s November 1994 call for expressions of interest.
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