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Faunce Street West

Beane Street East - I found out why this is a silent site.

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Why do you hardly see me and my camera these days? Because things are hotting up in Gosford in terms of active sites. So I have to do them in bunches and because there are more sites, there have to be more bunches. I'll get back to your site soon. Meanwhile, enjoy having a stickybeak at the photos of everyone else's site.

Faunce Street West

Whole of the Faunce Street West site, 16th April 2018

This site sat idle for a good 6 months, with just its big yellow crane and two old houses on it. Then quite suddenly last month, it was cleared and the earthmovers came in and started digging out the spoil. We can see here spoil removal is still underway.

Steepish site with plenty of spoil, 16th April 2018

Here we can see from the upper and lower rooftop heights of the units to the left that this is a site of middling steepness. It's looking quite sandy so far but we'll have to wait and see what's under that sand, whether it's clay or sandstone.

Another of Gosford's tight site, 16th April 2018

It's also another very tight site, with the spoil trucks having to stop on the road itself and even the scrap bins having to be stacked up in the front corner of the site, behind the mesh.

Spoil being neatly dropped into a spoil truck while the traffic waits, 16th April 2018

Clean-up crew taking care of windblown spoil, 16th April 2018

Local traffic waits patiently as spoil is dropped neatly into a waiting spoil truck and the clean-up crew moves the windblown bits off the road. The winds have been quite strong this past week so the clean-up crews must have been very busy and the wind must have caused some significant safety issues and all-round aggravation on Gosford's building sites.

The hill we can see in the background of all these photos is Presidents Hill, also marked on some maps as Waterview Park. There is a lookout at the top of Presidents Hill. Access is by car from the end of Hely Street in West Gosford. The view from up there is down the length of the Brisbane Water to Barrenjoey lighthouse, Palm Beach and Pittwater in northern Sydney. Best photography light is early mornings and late afternoons.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

Beane Street East

Silent site at the corner of Beane Street East & Hills Street, 16th April 2018

Silent as the grave. This site, a mid-sized apartment building on the corner of Beane Street East and Hills Street, has been silent for a few weeks now.

Tigertail cover for visibility only, 16th April 2018

As I stood there looking at it and wondering why, the people responsible for preventing workers from being fried by powerlines saw me and told me what was going on.

The striped yellow cover over this powerline ("tigertail")can't prevent it from electrifying anything or anyone it touches. It's just preventing the powerline from being damaged by making it more visible to trucks and cranes and so on.

Powerlines too close for safety, 16th April 2018

Here in this photo, we can see how close the powerlines are to the scaffolding on the Hills Street side of the site. That's too close. Close enough that a strong wind gust (which we've had plenty of) or a slight tilt too far of a piece of equipment or building material could come into contact with the powerlines and that would electrify the whole of the scaffolding and anything or anyone touching it. That's an ambulance job and probably one or two cases of body-bags so no wonder the site is closed down until it's sorted out.

Good luck to all who sail in her and may work safely resume sooner rather than later.

 
 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.