Wollondilly Shire Council

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• Keep Chickens For Eggs

  Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds your garden.
  
  Keeping chickens is a great way to turn waste into food, entertain yourself (and your kids), and they increase the nutrients and health of your soil while eating bugs, insects and sometimes mice.
  
  How to do it now!
  Keeping chickens is easy with the right setup, equipment and knowledge. Always check your local library, bookstore or…

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• Slow and Local Travel

  Holidays are a break from the normal routine, yet you can break your routine at home or in your local area, it just requires a new perspective.
  
  Ask your friends for their favourite local attractions, hidden pleasures, fabulous festivals and cosmic adventures. Map a slow journey along roads, rivers and coasts that you've never travelled and see sights you've never seen. If you throw in the cash you save not flying to the other side of the planet, you can even indulge yourself, guilt fr…

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• Council moving forward with implementation of updated Thirlmere Memorial Park and Sportsground Masterplan

  Wollondilly Shire Council has endorsed an updated implementation plan for the Thirlmere Memorial Park and Thirlmere Sportsground Master Plan, and can now move forward with the delivery of the plan to upgrade the facilities in the heart of the town.
  
   
  
  Following adoption of the amended plan at Tuesday night’s meeting Council can get on with the implementation of the plan at both sites, including the playground upgrade and design work for the new multipurpose building.
  
   
  
  Mayor Matt Gould said,…

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• Design & Construction of New Masons Lodge – Principal Contractor

  Request for Tender 2021/34This Tender is for the Design and Construction of a New Masons Lodge building at 436 Argyle Street, Picton.
  Wollondilly Council (the Principal) is seeking Tenders from suitable qualified and experienced Design and Construct Contractors for the procurement of the works and services below.
  Scope of Work
  The Contract scope of works is detailed on the drawings and specifications and schedules and is listed below but not limited to:
  • Complete all design elements required fo…

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• PROPOSED INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT - 95 Hilton Park Road TAHMOOR, 85 Hilton Park Road TAHMOOR

  An application has been received seeking consent for the following:
  
  Property
  
  Lot: 1 DP: 599811, Lot: 11 DP: 11938, 95 Hilton Park Road TAHMOOR, 85 Hilton Park Road TAHMOOR
  
  For the purposes of
  
  Demolition of outbuildings, vegetation removal, partial decommissioning of an existing dam, 7- lot Torrens Title subdivision, construction of a new road, associated civil and stormwater work and street tree planting.
  
  Applicant
  
  Mr M Webb
  
  Application Number
  
  DA/2025/115/1
  
  Consent Authority
  
  Wollondil…

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• Onsite Sewage/Septic

  More than half of Wollondilly’s population lives in rural and rural-residential areas, where Sydney Water’s sewer system is unavailable. As such, there are over 8000 on-site sewage management systems installed in the Shire.
  
  Most of these systems are septic tanks and aerated wastewater treatment systems (AWTS). Other types of systems include pump-outs, mounds, reed beds, sand filters, biological filtration systems and wet composting units.
  
  Septic Tanks provide anaerobic (‘without oxygen’) treat…

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• Proposed Integrated Development - 8 Attunga Close PICTON

  An application has been received seeking consent for the following:
  
  Property
  
  Lot: 44 DP: 285800, 8 Attunga Close PICTON
  
  For the purposes of
  
  Community Title Subdivision to create two lots including removal of trees, earthworks and drainage works.
  
  Applicant
  
  Mr S Jahan
  
  Application Number
  
  DA/2025/33/1
  
  Consent Authority
  
  Wollondilly Shire Council
  
   The application is Integrated Development under Section 4.46 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979. Approval for the proposed…

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• Mulch Your Patch

  Mulching your garden beds improves soil health and prevents water loss through evaporation.
  
  Mulching is the number one rule for water conservation in your garden. Adding mulch to your garden beds can prevent water loss by up to 25 per cent, reducing evaporation rates and increasing the water storage capacity of your soil.
  
  Soil is the starting point for life in the garden (and in the forest, bush and grassland). It is continually being made in one of nature's great cycles. We can't ma…

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• Asbestos Removal

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• Development Control Plan

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• Reuse your greywater

  Reusing greywater to water lawns and gardens could save up to 50,000 litres of drinking water per home each year.
  
  Greywater is recycled water from domestic use in the home. It includes water from baths, showers, hand basins and washing machines and can be used on the garden or treated and reused in your washing machine, toilet or garden. Greywater from the kitchen (including dishwashers) should not be used because the concentration of food wastes and soil organisms do not readily break down che…

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• "Hands Off Our Rural Lands" Says Mayor to Developer Lobby

  Wollondilly Shire Council will advocate to maintain existing protections for Wollondilly’s rural lands in the face of pressure from developer lobbyists calling for the removal of these protections, potentially opening up more agricultural land for housing.
  
  At November’s Council meeting, Mayor Matt Gould expressed his deeply held concerns about recent comments from the Urban Taskforce Australia calling on the State Government to ignore the critically important Metropolitan Rural Area (MRA) and t…

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• Onsite Sewage/Septic

  More than half of Wollondilly’s population lives in rural and rural-residential areas, where Sydney Water’s sewer system is unavailable. As such, there are over 8000 on-site sewage management systems installed in the Shire.
  
  Most of these systems are septic tanks and aerated wastewater treatment systems (AWTS). Other types of systems include pump-outs, mounds, reed beds, sand filters, biological filtration systems and wet composting units.
  
  Septic Tanks provide anaerobic (‘without oxygen’) treat…

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• Council fears funding for Wollondilly infrastructure projects could be cancelled as federal government announces review

  The federal government’s announcement this week of an audit on infrastructure spending could put up to 95 NSW infrastructure projects at risk, sparking concerns that vital projects promised to benefit Wollondilly residents will be dropped.
  
  Wollondilly Mayor Matt Gould has expressed his concerns that funding committed by the previous government for Silverdale Road, Picton Road, planning of the Picton Bypass, the metro rail link and the Campbelltown commuter car park could all be at risk as the A…

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• George's Riverkeeper

  Georges Riverkeeper advocates for the protection, conservation and enhancement of the health of the Georges River.  Work focuses on five strategic priorities: catchment actions (such as litter removal and bush rehabilitation), river health monitoring and research, stormwater, and education and capacity building.
  
  Georges Riverkeeper represents the eight local councils in the Georges River Catchment of NSW with a collective responsibility for the health of the Georges River. Members include Baysi…

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