Quick Catch Up (1st half)

First of all, I hope you all had a Christmas and New Year break that was light on Christmas angst and indigestion and heavy on fun and frolics. I was too busy with that blasted stomach trouble to enjoy any of it but I’ll enjoy it next year.
Today’s page is a quick check of the progress on half the building sites in Gosford. Only half because I ran out of time and so the other half will have to be done next week.

Here are the 1st half of the Gosford sites, in alphabetical order:

 Batley Street, West Gosford

Just two or three workers on the site today. This is a slow site but the views will be great when it’s finished.


 Beane Street East, Gosford

Not a worker in sight but I arrived to take my photo at exactly three minutes after their lunch break had started and it was spotting with rain so they would have all been inside eating their sandwiches and pies.

This site is quite awkward to photograph well, due to being a small site on a slope with no nearby building I can get on top of for the better photo angles. Such is life.


 ‘Icon’ site Kendall Street, Gosford

One of the fastest building sites in Gosford at the moment. A site meeting in progress on the left hand of the photo and, on the right, more workers and a red and white stabiliser leg of a concrete pumping arm’s base truck.


 Singo’s tower AKA ‘Bonython’ Tower Mann Street, Gosford

Taken two days ago (Wed 10th) but a good illustration of how far ahead this fast site has come along since Christmas. The Kendall Street sites are pretty quick and so is the Wilhelmina Street site since they got to the bottom of that giant hole of sandstone, but the ‘Bonython Tower’ is the quickest, though not be much.


 ‘Vue’ site Kendall Street, Gosford

Lots of empty space down the front of the site and lots of very big boulders (left hand side of photo) to be removed yet but this has a tricky site to get the foundation work done on due to the boulders, the clay and the slope of the site. Rain, some big wind and heatwaves haven’t helped either. But there was plenty of progress being made at the back of the site, with the workers in orange spraying concrete onto the newly exposed sections of the stabilising wall of pylons at the back of the site.

Next week: the various building sites on the Gosford Hospital grounds, the Point Frederick/East Gosford sites, the tiny houses site and the very slow site on Henry Parry Drive.