Today's pages

So many sites are active now I have more pages I didn't have time to put up here on Friday or Monday.

Here they are:


Kendall Street Icon (Gosford)

Kendall Street Vue (Gosford)

Albany Street (Pt Frederick)

 
  Update

The Froggy's site, named after the old ice-rink on the site, is taking so long to demolish because so much asbestos has been found in the various buildings on the site. When it's found, the special removal crews, in their airtight outfits, have to come and carefully remove it and check they've taken away every last bit of it.

So the Froggy's site is going to take as long to demolish and clear as it takes. Meanwhile, there are so many other sites to keep up with.

 
 Extra

Live After 5 setting up in Kibble Park, November 2017

 Setting up for Live After 5 in Kibble Park. Live After 5 is a monthly festival of food stalls and live music in the green heart of Gosford, Kibble Park. After dark it looks lovely all lit up with its strings of lights. It smells great too.

A dark cloudy afternoon beside The Rip Bridge, November 2017

Taken from beside The Rip Bridge at Ettalong one dark rainy afternoon. Gosford is invisible in the distance because the big new towers have not yet risen high. That will soon change and I'll take another photo from the same place when it does.


Come back on Friday for more building site progress photos, a nice explanatory map of all the active building sites and more nice extras to look at.

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Albany Street

A fine crop of weeds in Albany Street, November 2017

This site on the east side of Albany Street, on the corner of Duke Street, is another Central Real site and, as you can see from the lush carpet of flowering weeds, it’s not active at the moment.

A similar state of affairs on the other side of Albany Street, November 2017

This site is almost opposite the site above. It’s on the west side of Albany Street and backs onto one of the Lynn Avenue sites. We can see it too is inactive at the moment and we can also see the sort of view of the water the residents will be getting when it’s ready for them to move in.

Albany Street runs along the spine of the long narrow Point Frederick, from the base of Pt Fred at York Street to the old cemetery in the park at the very tip of Pt Frederick. Other than the park and the lovely old school on Frederick Street, the Point is all houses and a lot of those houses have views.

On the east side, the views are down into quiet Caroline Bay and across to Green Point and Kincumba Mountain above Green Point. On the west side, those views are down onto the yacht club and its marina and into the Gosford Broad Water (part of Brisbane Water) and across to little Fagans Bay and Point Clare and to the tree-covered ridge above them.

(Non-locals, York Street is part of the Central Coast Highway. The part that goes past Pt Fred and through East Gosford.

Come back next week to see these sites and more on a nice explanatory map.

Kendall Street Vue

Vue site Kendall Street, November 2017

Due to the big trucks parked along the verge of the upper Kendall Street site, this site, I couldn’t get a photo of the whole of it. It was all systems go on the site, with work going on at the front to stabilise the forecourt and driveway area.

Stabilising the verge & forecourt, November 2017

Right there on the right hand edge of this photo you can see the guy directing traffic at this site and his stop sign. There were extra vehicles on this narrow little street, with the two sites active now, and cars and ambulances couldn’t see around the big trucks. So there was a row of traffic cones down the middle of the road and people directing traffic, holding walkie-talkies and signs to let first one lot of traffic and then another.

I parked in a carpark on Mann Street and walked to Kendall Street to take my photos. Parking on the street was impossible and there eight building sites within 3 minutes’ drive of each other in the Presidents Hill area so parking on the street anywhere in that area is a lost cause.

A closer look at the stabilisation, November 2017

A closer look at the reason for the stop signs and traffic cones. The forecourt and driveway areas need to be stabilised and so those big cartage trucks have to come and go at regular intervals to take away the spoil. And on such a small site, the road itself is the only place they can park to be loaded up with spoil by the scoops of the earthmovers.

Elbows and backs on the Icon site, November 2017

Lots of elbows and backs at the northern end of the site, where most of the activity was when I was there. And an indication of how much activity this site is now seeing daily could be judged by the two porta-loos (portable toilets) side by side in the background where there was previously only one.