Sunday Round-up (part 2)

Aqua on the corner of St George & Wilhelmina Streets, 16th September 2018

In alphabetical order this time, the photos I didn't have time to put up earlier this week.
 
A silent sunny Sunday morning at the Aqua site on St George Street in West Gosford. The crane has not long gone up and things are going pretty well here, despite the site being pretty much all sandstone.

Looking up Wilhelmina Street to Harbour View & Batley Street's crane, 16th September 2018

This photo shows just how close the Aqua, Harbour View (centre) and the Batley Street sites are, with Batley Street's crane visible behind Harbour View. The residential bit of West Gosford is quite small.

A closer view at the Aqua site, 16th September 2018

Complete with toppled old sign and witch's hats in the foreground, the Aqua site, looking roughly west.


 Faunce Street West

Faunce Street West & its sister site in the background, 9th September 2018

Struts and supports in cheery colours at the Faunce Street West, a block from the back of the hospital. In the left background is Presidents Hill and in the right background its completed sister site.

Materials stacked neatly on the site, 9th September 2018

All materials have to be stacked on site at this site. The road past it, Faunce Street West, is 2 lanes and has plenty of traffic and the site fence is very very close to the curb. That makes access to this site minimal for deliveries and concrete trucks. When a truck has to back in, the traffic is stopped going both ways. One of the issues with building in a town like Gosford, which sits in the narrow mouth of the lovely Narara Valley.

The site's front fence is almost on the curb, 9th September 2018

This photo, taken from across the road from the site, shows that the fence is mere inches from the curb. We can also see dusty tyre tracks on the road from materials and concrete trucks.
 


Fielder Street 

Fielder Street site's materials stacks, 16th September 2018

Fielder Street has much better access, despite being on the corner of narrow Fielder Street and even narrower Fielder Lane.

Fielder Street going gangbusters, 16th September 2018

Supports for the ground floor going up now. Is there a basement carpark at this site? Memory fails me. I'll have to check next time I'm there.


 Golf Heights

Golf Heights in Cape Street North, 9th September 2018

Golf Heights is behind the hospital, on the corner of Racecourse Road and Cape Street North. There are still units left unsold at this site. In the left background of this photo, we can see the crane and sister site at Faunce Street West.

Golf Heights crane from Faunce Street West, 9th September 2018

Part of the lovely view north from Faunce Street West and, when it too is finished, from Golf Heights.


 Extra 

"The Castle" in West Gosford, 16th September 2018

Workers at the Bately Street and Harbour View/Wilhelmina Street sites can see this house while they work. 

It's an iconic building known to locals and spotted by some sharp-eyed tourists. It was in the newspaper too.

It was built in the late 1990's by a migrant who was heavily into European Medieval times. It's certainly very different from the 1950's house on its right.

That's it for this week. Back next week with a Crane Count, including the crane going up at the Pinnacle site on Mann Street, as I was whizzing by on Henry Parry Drive.