Wyong, New South Wales

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Wyong

Country: Australia
State: New South Wales
Location: 33°16′S 151°25′E
Wyong Council Area: 827 km²
Population (2001): 130,854
Postcodes: 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262, 2263

Wyong is a town in the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies approximately 90 km north of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD), located west of Tuggerah Lake; a large shallow coastal lake. It serves as the administrative centre for Wyong Shire.

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 Councils.

[edit] Development

The completion of the F3 Freeway cut the driving time from the Sydney CBD to the suburbs of Wyong down to under 1 hour 40 minutes, which has resulted in major growth in the rate of development in Wyong Shire, the emphasis being in the rapidly developing suburbs of Blue Haven, Warnervale, Woongarah, Hamlyn Terrace, Wadalba and Tuggerah. Their proximity to the F3 have made them the emphasis of development in the area, and to a lesser degree the suburbs of San Remo, Charmhaven Kanwal and Tuggerah

Due to the sudden growth in population, local shopping centres have been redeveloped to cater for increasing demand. A Business park (which is home to 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, just outside Wyong in Tuggerah. Both Westfield and Homemakers have recently enjoyed a dramatic refurbishing.

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.^{[citation needed]}The Entrance, once known as a quiet town which sees the Pacific Ocean flow into the Tuggerah Lakes System, has also 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.