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The Festival Development Corporation was constituted on 20 November 1998 by the Growth Centres (Festival Development Corporation) Order 1998 under the Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Act 1974 (Act No.49, 1974). The order set aside certain land in Mount Penang, Central Coast, to be known as the Festival Growth Centre and constituted the Festival Development Corporation to promote, co-ordinate, manage and secure the orderly and economic development of the growth centre. (1) The first members of the Festival Development Corporation were appointed from 29 January 1999. (2)
The Festival Growth Area included: All those pieces or parcels of land within the local government area of the City of Gosford being land generally bounded by: (a) the Pacific Highway in the east and south, and (b) Kangoo Road in the west and north, as shown by thick black edging on the map entitled “Festival Development Corporation”, copies of which were deposited at the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (the map), but excluding:- (c) the residential area at Kariong off Old Mt Penang Road, and (d) the area designated for occupation by the Department of Juvenile Justice, and (e) the public reserve between Kangoo Road and the Pacific Highway in the north-east, as shown on the map. (3) The 156 hectares of public land at Mount Penang of the Festival Growth Area was to be converted into facilities for festivals and events and between these major activities provide recreation and sporting facilities for the public. (4)
Under the Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Act 1974 (Act No.49, 1974) the development corporation could discharge the following duties and functions: (a) to submit to the Minister such proposals with respect to the development and use of land within the growth centre in respect of which it was constituted, or the planning of the development and use of that land, as it considers necessary or appropriate, including proposals for the development and use of land in conjunction with the provision of utility services and public transport facilities for or in connection with the growth centre (b) to consider, and furnish reports to and advise and make recommendations to the Minister upon, any matter or proposal with respect to the promotion, co-ordination and management of the growth centre, or the development and use, or the planning of the development and use, of land within the growth centre, which may be referred to it by the Minister (c) to carry out research into problems with respect to the promotion, co-ordination and management of the growth centre, or the development and use, or the planning of the development and use, of land within the growth centre, and prepare and issue memoranda, reports, bulletins, maps or plans relating thereto or any other material (d) to assist councils, which the development corporation considers may be affected, with respect to matters concerning the promotion, co-ordination and management of the growth centre, or the development and use, or the planning of the development and use, of land within the growth centre (e) to exercise and discharge such other powers, authorities, duties and functions as are conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act, and (f) to do such supplemental, incidental and consequential acts as may be necessary or expedient for the exercise or discharge of its responsibilities, powers, authorities, duties and functions. (5)
The Act also allowed the development corporation to: manage and survey land vested in it; demolish buildings within or adjoining the growth centre they possessed; locate or relocate utility services; set apart land as sites for building or works or religious, charitable or municipal purposes; subdivide the land; construct roads; erect, alter, repair and renovate buildings; and, improve the land so it would be fit to be used. (6)
On 3 September 2010 the name of the corporation was changed to the Central Coast Regional Development Corporation by the Growth Centres Amendment (Central Coast Regional Development Corporation) Order 2010. (7)
On 1 November 2018 the Hunter Development Corporation (HDC) and the Central Coast Regional Development Corporation (CCRDC) were amalgamated to form the Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation (HCCDC). (8) The Central Coast Regional Development Corporation was dissolved on 1 November 2018. (9)
Endnotes
1. NSW Government Gazette No.163, 20 November 1998, p.8920.
2. NSW Government Gazette No.88, 6 August 1999, p.5488.
3. Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Act 1974, Sch. 1 (as inserted by the 1998 Order), NSW Legislation Website (point-in-time 01/01/2000).
4. Report of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning for the year ended 30 June 2000, pp.45-46.
5. Growth Centre (Development Corporations) Act 1974 (Act No.49, 1974) s.7.
6. ibid., s.8.
7. Growth Centres Amendment (Central Coast Regional Development Corporation) Order 2010 (2010 No 510), NSW Legislation Website, 3 September 2010.
8. Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation, Annual Report, 2018-2019, p.6.
9. Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Amendment (Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation) Order 2018 (2018 No 581), NSW Legislation Website, 12 October 2018; Growth Centres (Development Corporations) Act 1974, Sch. 1A, cl.3(2)(a).
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