Local Government Week 2024

Celebrating Wollondilly Council

Local Government Week aims to help move the conversation beyond roads, rates and rubbish, to the important and far-reaching role Councils play and the wide range of services provided to communities.

See below some highlights from the teams at Wollondilly and what we are working to achieve across our shire.

Environmental Services

Council’s Robin Davies Community Nursery, with the help of amazing volunteers, propagate and grow locally endemic native species. Residents are eligible to receive 5 free plants per quarter. The Nursery also assists larger landholders and landcare groups with larger plantings and provision of feed trees for our local biodiversity including Koalas and Glossy Black Cockatoo
The Team collaborates with the NSW Koala Strategy team to survey for koalas and map koala habitat within the LGA
Council hosts a series of Sustainadilly workshops. Examples include plant propagation, bee keeping, composting and worm farming. There are also a series of planting days to increase biodiversity
The Team supports and advocates for the re-use of rainwater and recycled water in the landscape to promote resilient communities

PARKS & RECREATION

The Parks and Recreation team at council deliver strategic and operational programs covering a range of assets including, parks, open space, sportsfields, trees, streetscapes, swimming pools and recreation facilities, cemeteries, public amenities and community halls.

Check out what the stats for what the Parks and Recreation Unit completed last year in June 2023.

	Emptied 1,887 bins from our parks and open space areas across the Shire
	Cleaned 235 public toilets and 84 barbecues
	Collected 29 tonnes of waste whilst completing 184 hours of street sweeping
	Completed 94 playground inspections
	Received over 100 customer requests to attend to matters involving the Parks and Recreation Unit
	Painted pools at both the Wollondilly Community Leisure Centre and Mary Walker Memorial Pool, Warragamba

Sustainable Growth

Did you know that our Shire is expected to grow from 42,000 people to around 100,000 people by the year 2036?! ... So what is Council doing about this growth?

We have an experienced team of planners who working hard in the background to make sure that residents see:

the protection our towns, villages, heritage, agriculture and bushland – the things we love about Wollondilly
most of the new housing and growth focused in the State Growth areas in Wilton and Greater Macarthur
that we get the right infrastructure, at the right time, to support our existing and new homes
more jobs and employment, closer to home in our Shire
working with government and strongly advocating to get new schools, health care and public transport in the Shire

If you would like learn more about our land use vision for the Shire, along with our planning priorities, Wollondilly 2040 has all the answers.

TOURISM

Our Tourism Team work to promote Wollondilly to create awareness of the region, highlight attractions, encourage new visitors and grow the local economy. We showcase places to visit on social media, the Visit Wollondilly Website and in the Visitor Guide.

We provide support to Wollondilly businesses connecting them to workshops, events, services, grants and other promotional opportunities to help them thrive.

Check out the Visitor Guide or the website and see what you can explore in Wollondilly and the amazing local businesses we have in the shire!

Library

Wollondilly Library has delivered 200 programs to 3,998 people between January and June in 2023. We love to see our community read, learn, study and play in our space.

There are over 40,000 items in the Library’s physical collection, plus thousands of books, audiobooks, magazines, comics, movies and more in the digital collection, all accessible with your Library card!

For more information and to see what events are coming up, head to the Library website.

Children's Services

Wollondilly Children’s Services have been operating for over 30 years.

Our services provide strong support for the families of Wollondilly - from our Preschool and Year Round Care services located in the heart of Picton, to our Family Day Care services scattered throughout the Shire.

We employ an array of local educators to develop and deliver stimulating, high quality educational programs that cater for the needs of children up to the age of 12, in inclusive licenced environments.