Gosford Challenge – History

In 2005/2006 Gosford City Council embarked on its ambitious community engagement program; Vision 2025. This gave Council a clear road map in respect of the community's goals for Gosford. It was from this body of work that the Gosford Challenge begun.

With its stunning natural beauty, and its formal designation by the State Government as the Regional City for the Central Coast, Gosford is primed to become a world-class waterfront city. Gosford will become an outstanding place to live, work, study and play.

The Gosford Challenge process was about making this happen. It was about engaging with it s community to help create a future. A future, in which Gosford will be the capital of a thriving Central Coast region.

Most people from the region will be educated locally; they will work locally, meet their partner and raise their children locally. Gosford will be the place people are referring to when they talk about working in the city, or living in the city. People will speak of Gosford with pride.

The Gosford Challenge was about laying the foundations for twenty, forty, sixty years ahead.

Planning for a city that will grow to support a region for decades to come. Gosford will become a city that will grow not just bigger, but better, each decade. The population of the whole region will flourish as the result of greater investment in the area, greater educational opportunities leading to great ideas and investment - the region will get caught in an up-cycle.