ET Australia School Gosford

I am not opposed to the project. I'm glad that the Imperial Centre has been able to find tenants for their long-term unused space.

However, I am concerned about the campus being located in a Shopping Centre, and the students having access to the shopping facilities during school hours. This particularly applies to the Food Court. I firmly believe that the students must be under strict instructions to remain on campus at all times during school hours, including scheduled breaks. If this is not the case, I will be changing my support to an objection.

The reason I feel this needs to be enforced is because I live next door to the Imperial Centre, work full-time from home & often use the Food Court facilities at lunchtime. I also have elderly parents who I meet up with there on occasion. None of us will be happy to spend our time intermingling with year 7-10 students, who generally are lacking in discipline for noise control &, especially now, social distancing & hygiene practices. We do not want to be forced to queue to be served due to our breaks coinciding with the school's.

I look forward to hearing more about the progress of this project.

Thanks & Regards,
Michael Lee

Please see attached response.

OPTIONS Disability Support Limited provides support to people with a disability who live on the Central Coast and is currently co-located with ET Australia in Gosford. Over the years we have worked very closely with ET Australia to ensure that the people we support are valued and a part of their community. I have witnessed first hand the impact that ET Australia has had on the young people who attend their Secondary School - many of whom were struggling in the mainstream education system and becoming disconnected and disengaged. Their approach to tailoring a circle of support around all of their students to ensure they achieve their goals in life is a model that is working. It is essential that the school remains in the Gosford CBD, providing access to transport and services that many of the students rely on as they do not necessarily have the personal/informal supports to access the school. ET Australia's Secondary School is making a difference in young peoples lives and it is for this reason that OPTIONS Disability Support Limited wholeheartedly supports this application

Since inception in 2001, Parkside Gosford Ltd has been responsible for the management and operations of the Parkside Multi-Service Youth Facility. There have been at least 5 NFPs co-located at any one time in the Parkside Multi-Service Youth Facility in the Parkside building at 123 Donnison Street Gosford since 2001. ET Australia has occupied the Parkside building since 2001, first as an adult training college. In 2013, ET Australia moved the adult training college so Parkside could become the location for ET Australia Secondary College (ETASC), a Year 7 to Year 10 high school.
ET Australia is re-locating ETASC from the Parkside building to two new sites to be ready for the start of the 2021 school year.
ET Australia has been an anchor tenant in the Parkside building, successfully providing essential education and training services, especially to young people, in the Gosford city centre.
The Parkside Board of Directors and Management fully support ET Australia’s move to the two new sites in the Imperial Centre and at 125 Donnison Street Gosford.
As a result of the move to two new locations, ETASC is expanding to include Year 11 and Year 12 so the school will become a Year 7 to 12 Secondary College.
The staff and students of the school add value to the Gosford city centre community and help activate the city centre. Their presence supports the retailers and the expansion to Year 11 and Year 12 will boost this positive impact.
Without the school, Kibble Park would not be as well patronised. The use of Kibble Park by the school makes the city centre a more positive and safer place for the whole community.
We are pleased to see ET Australia stay in the Gosford city centre. In close proximity to the Central Coast’s major transport hub, the two new school locations provides students from all over the Central Coast and beyond the opportunity to attend the school.
This is a really positive development and one that the Parkside Board and Management endorses and supports.

Please find attached Trasport for NSW response.

Gosford Uniting Church (the 'Church') is located at 127-129 Donnison Street, Gosford, next door to ET Australia's offices. Church representatives met with the Chief Executive Officer to discuss the project. At a meeting of Church Council on 19 May 2020 a report was received from the Church's representatives on the project and the impact it would have on the Church. After discussing the report, Church Council agreed by consensus to support the project.

Ausgrid has no objections to the proposal.

We write to you in support of the SSD Application 10434 submitted by ET Australia in Gosford. As the management company for the Imperial Shopping Centre, we wish to formally notify the Department of our support of this Application.

We understand that ET Australia wishes to expand their school, by creating a campus for year 11-12 students and a expanded junior school campus for year 7-10 students.

The continued growth of ET Australia and their expansion of their campus is fundamental to the revitalisation of the Gosford CBD. We ask that the NSW Government favourably considers their application expeditiously to allow the school to open in 2020. Approval of this Application will promote real confidence in the business and community sectors of Gosford CBD.

We also informally write on behalf of all tenants in the Imperial Shopping Centre. Having notified them twice of the potential for ET Australia to come into the Shopping Centre, we didn’t receive any complaints or objections.

We have also liased with reputable members of the business community who have also expressed their support for the continued growth of ET Australia.

Community groups and businesses like ET Australia are very valuable and should be encouraged / supported to grow, especially in these unprecedented times.

We kindly thank you for your support and expeditious approval of this valuable community organisation.

Council comments attached

I am the CEO from Regional Youth Support Services a co-located youth service with the current ET College and training agency. We support the relocation of the ET school and will also be relocating in Gosford CBD by the end of December 2020. We have worked in partnership supporting the welfare of the ET students since the schools inception in 2013, and worked in partnership with ET Australia since 1999.

RYSS support the designs proposed,and plans in place to manage the school in the Imperial Centre and in Donnison Street in Gosford CBD.

Thank you