Cheero Point, New South Wales

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Cheero Point
Central Coast, New South Wales

Population:

107 (2002 estimate)^[1]

Postcode:

2083

Location:

49 km (30 mi) N of Sydney
28 km (17 mi) SW of Gosford

LGA:

City of Gosford

Parish:

Cowan^[2]

State District:

Gosford

Federal Division:

Robertson

Suburbs around Cheero Point:
	Mooney Mooney Creek
Bar Point	Cheero Point	Wondabyne
	Mooney Mooney

Cheero Point is a residential suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the west bank of the Mooney Mooney Creek 49 kilometres (30 mi) north of Sydney. It is part of the City of Gosford local government area.

1 History
2 Geography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The area was created by a land subdivision in 1918. In 1977, the Geographical Names Board included the small locality within the suburb of Mooney Mooney. However, community pressure from residents and the Mooney Mooney-Cheero Point Progress Association led to Gosford City Council recommending the separate gazettal of Cheero Point in its meeting on 5 November 2002, and the suburb name was officially re-assigned on 21 March 2003.^[3]^[4]

The suburb made headlines when landslides near Jolls Bridge forced the closure of a 250-metre section of the Pacific Highway for several years. By March 1990, only one lane remained open, and in April 1991 the highway was closed to traffic following investigations by the Roads and Traffic Authority. As the road was the only alternative route to the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway between Gosford and Sydney, which itself was prone to congestion, local service station owner Jim Lloyd collected 60,000 signatures demanding the re-opening of the road.^[5] The cost of restoring the highway was estimated at AU$2.3 million in May 1993.^[6] The road was eventually re-opened in June 1994, and in the 1996 federal elections, Jim Lloyd was elected to represent the Division of Robertson within which Cheero Point is located.^[7]

[edit] Geography

Cheero Point is bounded by the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway to the west, Mooney Mooney Creek to the east, and the southern boundary of the Brisbane Water National Park to the north. It is traversed by the Pacific Highway.^[8]

[edit] References

^ Ellis Karm & Associates (November 2002). Options Report - Mooney Mooney, Cheero Point & Little Wobby Sewerage S1. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
^ Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Geographical Names Register Extract - Cheero Point (Suburb). Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
^ Burke, Nicolette. "Independence Day - Residents put Cheero Point back on the map", The Daily Telegraph, 7 November 2002, p. 1.
^ "Geographical Names Act 1966 - Notice of Definition of a New Locality in Gosford City (per GNB3532)", New South Wales Government Gazette, 21 March 2003, p. 2003:4205.
^ Parliamentary Debates, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1 April 1993, pages 1121–1124
^ Dixon, Andrea. "Pacific Highway to re-open", Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 1993, p. 2.
^ Allison, Col. "MP battles F3 bottleneck", Sydney Morning Herald, 3 October 1996, p. 3.
^ UBD (2005). Central Coast Street Directory, 15, Universal Press, Map 104. ISBN 0-7319-1726-X.