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Hospital plans for retirement village

 

A State-funded hospital may be built at the Peninsula Village retirement home if plans before Gosford Council proceed.

The council has unanimously approved a plan to close off Arras Av in Umina and offer the space for sale to Peninsula Village retirement home as a car park.

The council was told that the closure is part of a plan to build a State-funded hospital at the Village.

The un-named laneway between Arras Av and Rabaul Av adjacent to the southern side of Lone Pine Av will also be closed.

The closure is subject to the Village obtaining ownership of 10 houses facing Lone Pine Av and Pozieres Av, serviced by the lane.

The price for the road and laneway will be determined by council's consulting real estate valuers and brought before council on April 9.

Prior to any road closure, Peninsula Village Ltd will be required to upgrade Lone Pine Av to cater for buses and install a pedestrian refuge at their own expense.

The plan was first put before the council's traffic committee in August 1995.

Mayor Cr Robert Bell said: "This is one of the few places on the Peninsula where most of the people catered for are pensioners."

Jonathan Reichard, Council agenda FS.047, March 27