Roads Act, 1993 & Roads Regulation 2018, Part 2, Division 1Notice is hereby given that Wollondilly Shire Council, in pursuance of Clause 7 of the above regulation proposes to name the following road/s:
Proposed Name: Samuel Crescent
Description: A new road coming off Rumker Street North Picton.
Name Origin: Samuel and Mary Williams moved to Thirlmere with their children Irene, Doris and Maurice in 1910. Doris later married Alfred Morris. The Williams and Morr…
About Nature MaprThe Wollondilly & Southern Highlands Nature Mapr (SHNM) is an exciting new citizen science tool to help you discover what is around you and for you to contribute to biodiversity monitoring in the Wollondilly and Wingecarribee shires.
What is it used for?Data collected by citizen scientists through NatureMapr helps to educate the broader community including the next generation of scientists and activists, and it can be used in the development of local biodiversity projects.…
With environmental concerns taking centre stage, businesses and organisations are realising the benefits of setting their business on a carbon neutral target.
About Being a Carbon Neutral BusinessFor businesses to stop contributing to climate change they need to become carbon neutral. This is achieved by balancing your business's carbon emissions with an equivalent amount being sequestered or offset. Generally all greenhouse gases (e.g. methane, nitrous oxide, etc.) are included in the…
Wollondilly Council will partner with My Gateway to deliver a Local Skills Ready Program funded through Stage Two of the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund.
The State and Federal Governments have committed $981,727 of bushfire recovery funding to the Local Skills Ready Program; a welcome boost to the Wollondilly community as it recovers from the impacts of the recent bushfires as well as floods and Covid-19.
The program will achieve a number of positive outcomes including reducing unemploym…
The Geographical Names Board (GNB) is seeking public comment on a proposal by the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) to create eight (8) new Address suburb/ localities in the Blue Mountains National Park reserve, Wollondilly LGA.
Presently, Blue Mountains National Park is both a suburb and a national park reserve.
The NPWS proposal is to divide the current Blue Mountains National Park suburb into 8 new
suburbs named, Kowmung, Beloon, Jooriland, Burragorang, Valley, Brereton, Kedu…
Request for Tender 2021/25Council has resolved to build the Wollondilly Community, Cultural & Civic Precinct (WCCCP) in Picton to deliver a range of much needed new and improved services, enhancing liveability and economic viability for the growing Wollondilly community. The full Precinct Master Plan is structured over four key stages with an anticipated ten year delivery. Stage 1 is currently underway and Stage 2 is the development of a Government Services Centre. This RFT is seeking to eng…
Read more about "Architectural & Interior Design Services for the Government Services Building"...Request for Tender 2021/26Council has resolved to build the Wollondilly Community, Cultural & Civic Precinct (WCCCP) in Picton to deliver a range of much needed new and improved services, enhancing liveability and economic viability for the growing Wollondilly community. The full Precinct Master Plan is structured over four key stages with an anticipated ten year delivery. Stage 1 is currently underway and Stage 2 is the development of a Government Services Centre. This RFT is seeking to eng…
Read more about "Multi-Services Engineering Design Services for the Government Services Building"...Request for Tender 2021/27Council has resolved to build the Wollondilly Community, Cultural & Civic Precinct (WCCCP) in Picton to deliver a range of much needed new and improved services, enhancing liveability and economic viability for the growing Wollondilly community. The full Precinct Master Plan is structured over four key stages with an anticipated ten year delivery. Stage 1 is currently underway and Stage 2 is the development of a Government Services Centre.
This RFT is seeking to eng…
Request for Tender 2021/28Council has resolved to build the Wollondilly Community, Cultural & Civic Precinct (WCCCP) in Picton to deliver a range of much needed new and improved services, enhancing liveability and economic viability for the growing Wollondilly community. The full Precinct Master Plan is structured over four key stages with an anticipated ten year delivery. Stage 1 is currently underway and Stage 2 is the development of a Government Services Centre.
This RFT is seeking to eng…
Wollondilly Council has called on the NSW Government to honour the agreement to install a signalised pedestrian crossing near Picton High School.
The agreement included a network of footpaths and a signalised crossing for pedestrians to safely navigate the Shire’s busiest road and access the school.
The proposal had been formalised through a letter from Schools Infrastructure to Council, which was subsequently considered and approved by the Local Traffic Committee in November 2020.
However, S…
To complement the Service NSW fees and charges rebate for small businesses, Wollondilly Council has announced additional support and will waive a range of business-related fees until February 2022.
Mayor Robert Khan said, “Council recognises that businesses and residents are again facing enormous challenges and uncertainty due to COVID-19 and current lockdown restrictions.”
“We want to provide whatever support we can, so we are introducing additional fee waivers as part of the Wollondilly Busi…
Wollondilly Shire Council has unanimously voted to reassert its strong opposition to the raising of the Warragamba Dam Wall at an extraordinary meeting on Friday, condemning the inadequacies of the recently released Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Council criticised the EIS’ watering down of environmental protections, insufficient indigenous heritage studies which fail to recognise the need to protect Gundungurra sacred sites, and inadequate consultation with Wollondilly.
The 45 days pro…
Construction is officially underway on a new children’s services building, in a major milestone for the highly anticipated Wollondilly Cultural Precinct.
The Morrison Government and Perrottet Government have each committed $814,784 to the new fit-for-purpose children’s services building, with Wollondilly Shire Council contributing a further $1,268,470.
The project is funded under the Western Parkland City Liveability Program as part of the Western Sydney City Deal.
The Western Sydney City Dea…
Young job seekers and students who live in the Wollondilly Local Government Area are invited to apply for a Local Skills Ready program that will kick start their careers, with more local opportunities than ever available in 2022.
My Gateway, in partnership with Wollondilly Shire Council, is recruiting for 15 positions to be based at Council, with additional positions made possible thanks to funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments’ Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Package.
The roles a…
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