Plans for upgrading Warnervale, NSW
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Plans for upgrading Warnervale, NSW
"After decades of controversy and failed plans, the Central Coast Council is trying to lure pilots to its ailing airport with a masterplan to expand operations for flight schools and emergency services.
To fix Central Coast airport’s lack of “clear and cohesive direction”, the council in February adopted a masterplan to transform the 160-hectare site’s facilities and infrastructure.
There are plans to upgrade the main runway, allow the long-term leasing of available land, relocate emergency services, develop commercial land, and undertake flood mitigation works. Another key plank of the plan focuses on addressing the aviation industry’s skills shortage by expanding flight training and pilot schools.
While the airport – also called Warnervale – has about 30,600 movements a year, this figure is forecasted to balloon to 55,000 by 2042. The council expects the airport to create about 200 jobs and potentially bring in $10 million in wages and salaries into the region annually – but it runs at a loss of more than $158,000 per year."
From: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...25-p5mxun.html
To fix Central Coast airport’s lack of “clear and cohesive direction”, the council in February adopted a masterplan to transform the 160-hectare site’s facilities and infrastructure.
There are plans to upgrade the main runway, allow the long-term leasing of available land, relocate emergency services, develop commercial land, and undertake flood mitigation works. Another key plank of the plan focuses on addressing the aviation industry’s skills shortage by expanding flight training and pilot schools.
While the airport – also called Warnervale – has about 30,600 movements a year, this figure is forecasted to balloon to 55,000 by 2042. The council expects the airport to create about 200 jobs and potentially bring in $10 million in wages and salaries into the region annually – but it runs at a loss of more than $158,000 per year."
From: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...25-p5mxun.html
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Come back in say 3 years time and count the number of people actually employed there. Councils love to chuck up employment numbers,…jobs, jobs, jobs is the buzz word. Locally it was 1000. Five years later, knock off a zero and you’d be exaggerating a bit. As with bureaucracies any old bs will do.
Wasnt this the same place a few years ago, going to restrict ops, plant trees and shorten the runway.?
Wasnt this the same place a few years ago, going to restrict ops, plant trees and shorten the runway.?
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It is a well positioned airport, with much more traffic than I thought. Helicopters are using the standing area quite a bit more, parking overnight on the hard surface, with some being powerline inspection machines and others aerial survey assets. And the morning coffee van & food truck that only stays for a few hours every morning is brilliant.
