We need a single council

Seated at my table at a recent wedding was a former head of emergency at Gosford Hospital.

"The problem with the Central Coast," he said, was that it "did not have an identity".

To an outside observer, it's a fair call.

At the root of the problem, we have a separate council for Gosford and Wyong.

We need a single council for the entire Central Coast.

There is an outstanding and talented arts community on the Central Coast, but who would know?

Gosford and Wyong Councils are too bogged down in their ongoing turf wars to tell anyone. To the outside world, the Central Coast is often viewed as a non-entity.

The Department of Education administers the Central Coast from Newcastle.

Our modest university campus is part of Newcastle University.

Entrenched interests want to keep things as they are, but it's time the coast had the identity it deserves.

A single council is the first step.

Email, 18 Jan 2010 Warren Cross, Wagstaffe Point