Prior to preparing a Planning Proposal it is recommended that you book a pre-lodgement meeting with Council's Strategic Planning division.
Staff can explain the process and provide advice specific to the proposal. This is a formal service and a fee is be payable prior to your meeting. This fee will depend on the scope of your proposal and is in accordance with Council’s adopted Fees and Charges.
For more information on booking a pre-lodgement meeting please contact Council's Strategi…
Development Control Plans (DCP's) provide planning standards and controls to guide new development in Wollondilly. They are relevant to applications for development, e.g. Development Applications and requests to remove trees.
The DCP support planning controls in the Wollondilly Local Environmental Plan 2011.
Wollondilly Development Control Plan 2016Wollondilly DCP 2016 was first approved by Council on 21 December 2015 and commenced on 20 January 2016.
Wollondilly Development Control P…
The Community Participation Plan (CPP) was developed to provide the community with a clear process of how and when Council will engage with the community in relation to proposed development and plan making across the Shire, including mandatory requirements for public exhibition in relation to its planning functions.
The overarching aim of community participation is to gather feedback from the community on key strategic planning documents, planning proposals, and development applications to info…
Please see below media release issued by Angus Taylor.
Joint Federal and NSW Government disaster funding is being rolled out to Wollondilly Shire Council under Stream 1 of the Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund (BCRRF), which helps councils promote community well-being, social and future disaster resilience.
Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor said that council would receive a $250,000 payment under BCRRF Stream 1.
“This funding will allow Wollondilly Shire Council to mana…
Wollondilly Council and the NSW RFS Southern Highlands Team welcomed the Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, RFS Commissioner Rob Rogers and Resilience NSW Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons to the official opening of the new Fire Truck Memorial Playground at Telopea Park, Buxton today.
The memorial playground was built to honour Mr Geoffrey Keaton and Mr Andrew O’Dwyer of Horsley Park Brigade, who lost their lives in the Green Wattle Creek bushfire at Buxton last December.…
The 2019/20 annual report going to next week’s Council meeting shows that Wollondilly Council has continued to deliver significant services and projects for the community, despite a year of extreme challenges including bushfires, floods and a global pandemic.
Mayor Robert Khan said, “This has been a year unlike any other - it has demonstrated the resilience and strength of the people of Wollondilly and shows why this is such an amazing place to live and work.”
“The Councillors and I are very p…
In order to ensure transparency and integrity in the planning framework, Council maintains an online register of development applications with variations to development standards approved within the Wollondilly Shire Council Local Government Area under Clause 4.6 of the Wollondilly Local Environmental Plan (WLEP) 2011. The register is updated quarterly:
The following development standard contraventions have been approved:
2023
October to December – Nil
July to September – Nil
April to June…
Wollondilly Council is hosting a tree planting day for Sydney Water staff this Friday, 19 February to assist with the restoration of bushland along Racecourse Creek at Picton Sportsground.
The project will establish 500 trees and 1500 shrubs and grasses to help restore the habitat for the endangered ecological community in the area.
Mayor Robert Khan noted, “It is fantastic to see Council and Sydney Water working together to look after our local bushland.”
“I’m particularly proud to see that…
Wollondilly Council is introducing an improved Duty Planning service from 1 March 2021, including welcoming customers back to a face to face service following 12 months of restricted contact due to Covid restrictions.
Rather than just reverting back to the old system, Council is introducing improvements that will give customers a range of options when it comes to discussing their Development Applications.
Mayor Robert Khan explained, “Customers have the choice of face to face meetings, call ba…
Wollondilly Council is strongly advocating for the NSW State Government to review and reclassify 116km of its roads as state roads, with Nathaniel Smith MP working closely with Council to help make it happen.
Mayor Robert Khan said, “Council is investing more than ever before to fix our 870km road network, with a big focus on our major roads.”
“But many of these heavily used roads really should be managed by the NSW Government, like they are for other Council areas all over the state, giving u…
Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to reduce the impact your workplace has on the environment.
About "Green Teams"The understanding that workplaces have an important role to play in moving us towards sustainability is relatively new.
Accordingly, many businesses and organisations remain unsure of how to put this into practice. Creating or joining committees, ideas groups, and Green Teams to focus on and implement pro-environmental change at…
The production of paper uses trees, chemicals, energy (greenhouse gases) and water. About one-third of the garbage we throw away is paper. Let's avoid, reduce, re-use and recycle at work too!
About Saving Paper and ForestsThe ecological footprint of a single newspaper was once described as taking up the area covered by all the sheets of the newspaper laid side by side, for the period of a year.
A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, ov…
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…
In a first for councils in NSW, Wollondilly Shire Council is moving its Local Environmental Plan to a digital format to provide quick, easy and accurate access to planning information online.
The new digital version will provide more reliable information to the public and stakeholders while saving time and money for both users and Council.
Mayor Robert Khan said, “Having the Local Environmental Plan to a new digital format will be a great improvement for Council, industry, and the public and w…
Use your recycled printer paper twicePaper, and printing on it, cost money. It consumes resources and could often be avoided.
A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, over 1.2 tonnes of coal and an assortment of chemicals. The greenhouse gas emissions of this tonne of paper are approximately 8 tonnes (with a tonne of recycled paper emitting approximately 2 tonnes of greenhouse gases), according to the Federal Government's 2001 Green Office G…
Thirlmere Festival of Steam
Huff N Puff Road Race and Family Fun Run
National Sorry Day – Community Commemoration
Picton Sportsground Amenities extension now complete
Council welcomes announcement of promised second High School for Wollondilly – opening in 2027
Bushfire Danger Period comes to a close