Gosford City Councillors will next week vote on whether to close one of only two medical practices on Mangrove Mountain.
Local residents are furious, after learning council planning staff have recommended the facility be shut down.
Gosford City Councillors will next week vote on whether to close one of only two medical practices on Mangrove Mountain.
Local residents are furious, after learning council planning staff have recommended the facility be shut down.
Cr Doyle agrees there are ‘exceptional circumstances’, but says he needs a ‘planning reason’. He and his fellow Councillors on Gosford Council know full well that a planning instrument is available that can be acted upon simply and swiftly. The relevant planning instrument is Interim Development Order 122 and an enabling clause can simply be inserted into IDO 122 that will approve the location of Dr Wade’s medical centre on her property in a Rural 1(a) Agriculture zone. Job done! It’s all in Dr Wade’s Planning Proposal, which they seem reluctant to pass on to the Department of P&I for a Gateway Determination to initiate the approval process.
Could someone tell me what “exceptional circumstances ” are if this is not exceptional? What did council have in mind when they wrote it into the LEP ?
These circumstances have to be exceptional.
This is crazy, here we are asking to keep our doctor which we have to service our rual area & not put pressure on Central Coast doctors & they want to take it away. Madness.
Good idea, Emily, to check out the doctors who have left Dr Wade’s practice. If the truth be known, one was asked to leave and the other left for family reasons.
Dr Wade is extremely well regarded by her peers, her patients and her staff. However, it is impossible to please everyone but Christine does an awesome job and it is very often a thankless task.
We are so fortunate to have a doctor of her calibre available locally and prepared to stay in the face of such opposition!
It is such a disgrace that the Council who is meant to be looking out for community interests is failing to ensure vital services are provided to us.
We live in a rural area and having quick access to a doctor who lives in the area and can respond to emergency requests or house calls (unlike the other doctor) is absolutely essential. My daughter fell off her horse two years ago and it was only due to the fact that Dr Wade’s surgery facilities and Dr Wade were close that first aid could be given straight away.
I hope that the Council now understands how important it is for Dr Wade to continue to be able to stay in Mangrove Mountain.
Maybe the other GP is supporting Dr Wade’s application as he knows that he would drown under the pressure of another two and half thousand patients when his patients are already waiting hours to see him?
Why are Council being so obstructive when they can just refer it on to DPI?
I wonder how far Councillors and Staff have to travel to obtain medical services……we live 45 minutes from Gosford – a long way in an emergency!!