Wyong, New South Wales

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Wyong Shire is situated on the traditional land of the Darkinjung people. The growth of the town was initially stimulated by a fledgling logging industry.

Wyong Shire is the fastest growing Local Government Area in New South Wales and one of the fastest growing in Australia along with Gold Coast City Council in Queensland and the City of Casey in Victoria.

Wyong is in the Central Coast region, and is sometime said to be a part of the wider Hunter region. Wyong Shire borders Lake Macquarie City and Gosford City Council.

Development

The completion of the F3 Freeway, linking the Central Coast and Sydney, has seen major growth in the rate of development in Wyong Shire, the emphasis being in the rapidly developing suburbs Blue Haven, Warnervale, Wadalba and Tuggerah. Their locations close to the F3 have made them the emphasis of development in the area, there have also been lesser developments in Lake Munmorah, San Remo and Charmhaven.

Due to the sudden growth in population, local shopping centres have been redeveloped to cater for increasing demand. A Business park (Which is the home of the Sanitarium Health Food Company and NBN Central Coast Television ), a Westfield Shopping Centre and a Homemakers Supa Centa have also been established in the past decade with Westfield and Homemakers recently enjoying dramatic refurbishment.

The dramatic rate of development has caused concern that the region‘s infrastructure is currently ill-equipped to provide adequate services such as health care and education.

The Entrance, once known as a quiet town which sees the Pacific Ocean flow into the Tuggerah Lakes System, has seen a lot of development in the past decade, multiple Apartment buildings have sprung up and the CBD and Waterfront district have also had a face lift.

See also

• Tuggerah Lake for a map of locations near Wyong.

External links

• Wyong Shire Council http://www.wyongsc.nsw.gov.au/
• Central Coast tourism http://www.cctourism.com.au/
• Central Coast regional development organisation http://www.ccrdc.org.au/
• NSW Department of Local Government: [Suburbs and Towns in Wyong Council] (includes map)

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