We share our community’s passion for preserving local heritage and our Community Heritage Study can progress towards entering its next stage comprising owner consultation and public exhibition. The study was endorsed by the Wingecarribee Local Planning Panel on June 29, 2023 and a motion to progress it was passed at the Council Meeting of July...
After receiving concerns from residents of Hill Top about the youth in their community being bored and lacking activities, Council and community organisations collaborated to find a solution. They also recognised the potential to rejuvenate the Hill Top Community Centre and use it as a means of connecting the young people in the area. In...
You can do your part to get conversations going about domestic violence and advocate for a safer, more respectful community, simply by displaying a new awareness-raising sticker on your bin! Residents of the Southern Highlands can pick up new domestic violence awareness-raising stickers for free from the Council’s Civic Centre and local libraries. These stickers...
To streamline the DA process for our community, we’ve been implementing improvements to our approach that are significantly reducing turn-around times. Clearance rates have been vastly improved by prioritising dealing with the legacy of a backlog of DA’s, and we’ve introduced a Fast-Track team dedicated to expediting straight-forward applications. Within the 6 months to June...
The importance our community places on sustainability saw Wingecarribee Shire come away from this year’s AgSafe Stewardship Awards, a winner. The team at our Community Recycling Centre (CRC) were thrilled to take the trophy in the drumMUSTER Collection Facility of the Year category, in recognition of the great work they do to actively engage our...
