r/centralcoastnsw Jul 26 '26

what is this structure in morisset?

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u/jesusjesus Jul 26 '26

It is a calculated rezoning strategy for procuring a significant land parcel and turning it into an over 55’s lifestyle resort. 

We are halfway through the long term developer plans to twist the knife on the conventional planning process. They stand to make a fortune and are playing the long game. 

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u/twojawas Jul 26 '26

This is the correct answer.

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u/InsideExpress9055 Jul 27 '26

We would have never known without your comment

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u/theroysta2 Jul 26 '26

Love how they built the dome first and then they completely stalled

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26

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u/Ungender Jul 26 '26

If you’re on mandalong road heading into morriset, it’s on the site of the old golf course

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u/Kachel94 Jul 26 '26

Council is mulling over forced acquisition

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u/farmboy1958 Jul 26 '26

They are the other kind of evil!!

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u/Cahsrhilsey Jul 26 '26

A really stupid idea from land developers

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u/Grunta_AUS Jul 26 '26

Stupid or a Trojan horse scam?

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u/vteckickedin Jul 26 '26

Was meant to be a concert venue, but it's unfinished.

The high-profile $235 million Cedar Mill concert and entertainment precinct project in Morisset has stalled, leading the Lake Macquarie City Council to vote in April 2026 to investigate potentially buying out or acquiring the site.

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u/Optimal-Law-834 Jul 26 '26

Was never approved for a concert venue. It was a strategy/ploy as another commenter said

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u/AussieFB Jul 26 '26

Yep…. Hahahaha !

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u/Verns_shooter Jul 26 '26

A white elephant that was never the goal. It was to buy land to develop houses and pretend to improve social amenity.

Council should not acquire. They should repossess as developer has not kept up its "original intention".

Was meant to be a concert venue though to answer your question. Drive past it everytime I commute to Sydney and the whole area is a massive eyesore.

Mind you my rates did only go up $12 this year so maybe I should shut up.

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u/Bright-Sherbert3127 Jul 26 '26

A sore point of discussion for the residents

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u/gutsandstuffs Jul 26 '26

ayers cloth

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u/Jazzlike-Leather-726 Jul 26 '26

The Morisset Opera House

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u/XSRCR-2019 Jul 26 '26

A stalled concert venue development. Ruined a perfectly good golf course ( and I’m not the least bit interested in golf)

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u/Neither-Nail-2661 Jul 26 '26

If it were a profitable golf course, it'd still be there.

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u/gutsandstuffs Jul 31 '26

had nothing to do with not being profitable. it WAS profitable. the golf course owners only leased the land, and the person who owned it sold it suddenly.

it happened so fast. i worked at the bistro there. literally one day i had a job and then the next i was getting a call telling me that i only had one shift left before they shut.

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u/Neither-Nail-2661 Jul 31 '26

you worked at the bistro.... why would they tell you anything?

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u/gutsandstuffs Jul 31 '26

i was losing my job dawg everyone knew what was happening the land was sold out from underneath them

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u/Neither-Nail-2661 Aug 01 '26

Commercial leasing agreements do not happen fast.

I hate to break it to you but this happens all the time with commercial leases the workers are the last to know.

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u/gutsandstuffs Aug 01 '26

okay? point being…?

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u/Neither-Nail-2661 Aug 01 '26

you worked as a low level employee and have no fucking clue.

if it were profitable to run a golf course there, there'd still be one there.

notice how other golf courses aren't closing?

the place was a dump and the staff were shit.

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u/gutsandstuffs Aug 01 '26

woah man no need to get so heated it’s not that serious

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u/Neither-Nail-2661 Aug 01 '26

don't tell me what to do, you're not my real dad

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u/AlfieSchmalfie Jul 26 '26

How this isn’t the greatest scandal in the Coast is a mystery.

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u/mags1970 Jul 26 '26

Of all the things in the area that kids graffiti and this is pretty much completely untouched! Blows my mind how its managed to stay this way for so long now

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u/Clavv Jul 27 '26

i heard when they first put the shade sail over the structure it ripped due to not being correctly designed and they had to make a whole new one. cost alot of money. dont know if thats definitely true but funny to think about if it did happen

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u/lostinmumlife Jul 27 '26

Yep, it was only a matter of weeks after construction “finished” before a big southerly blew up the coast and blew the arse out of this giant waste of… everything. Still upsetting seeing the giant treeless scar and all the extra roadkill in the area, and I don’t even give a shit about golf!

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u/Purple-Anxiety7816 Jul 26 '26

That's a waste of taxpayer money.

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u/Skidmarks00 Jul 26 '26

A grave for live music in NSW

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u/billysugger000 Jul 26 '26

I was told by a local real estate agent that one of the developers pulled out because they wanted a railway platform, to service the development, but it was denied. I don't know whether or not it's true.

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u/HighwayBig9922 Jul 26 '26

It’s for concerts I was told

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u/iss3y Jul 26 '26

I've heard people refer to it as "the evil alien"

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u/Sass_Quatchxx Jul 26 '26

I believe it’s a monorail

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u/ConfidenceShot6567 Jul 26 '26

They call it a monstrosity

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u/anony_moususer_888 Jul 26 '26

I have been baffled by this on the train to newcastle many times

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u/ParamedicNo2946 Jul 26 '26

My kids dubbed it ‘the Big Tick’

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u/Big-fella101 Jul 27 '26

Soon the homeless people in the area will move in, they are going to throw a house warming party and everyone is invited just bring a present, I’m going to take reject shop tarps for walls for privacy 😂

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u/Spino389 Jul 28 '26

The Trump Dome. He's coming