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Edited report could be released

Gosford Council's Coastal and Lagoon Planning (CLP) committee has decided to stick to its recommendation to release an edited version of the Correa Bay report.

If Gosford Council accepts the recommendation tonight (Tuesday), the edited report will be released almost two years after it was written.

The edited version of the report was shown to the Correa Bay Water Quality Management committee, which compiled the original report.

The chairman of Correa Bay committee, which had since been disbanded, advised that former members considered that additional information which the CLP committee wanted inserted should be presented as an addendum to the original document rather than being merged into the document.

With both viewpoints next to each other, the reader could form their own conclusion.

The CLP committee decided to recommend merging the original July 2000 report and a review completed by NSW Fisheries, the Department of Land and Water Conservation and Gosford Council in December 2001.

The result would remove all references to officer's names and "where appropriate shall present different comments in different font styles to enable ease of identification of the modifications".

Community representative on the CLP committee, Mr Ron Clifton, recorded his objection to the decision in the committee minutes, stating he was in favour of there being an addendum to the original draft document rather than a merged document.

Another community representative, Mr Bob Cochrane, abstained from the vote.

A total of seven community and association representatives attended the CLP meeting, as well as four council officers, a DLWC representative and committee chairman Cr Malcolm Brooks.

Council agenda CL.001, May 7