Council 'Connecting our Community'

Connecting Our Community – Community Consultation Program

You are invited to participate in the upcoming community consultation program where you will hear about the work Hawkesbury City Council has been doing this year and the work Council plans to do in the future.

Your comments and your feedback at the meeting will be invaluable.

For dates, times and venues download the flyer here

NRDCAA Council Report, Meeting 30th of January 2018.

NRDCAA Council Report, Meeting 30th of January 2018 can be download here.

The report covers main issues that the Committee of Management feels is in the public interest.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Council Report to NRDCAA Meeting 15th May 2017

There were four meetings of Council since the March Report, 28th of March, Ordinary Meeting, 10th of April, Extraordinary Meeting, 11th of April, Ordinary Meeting and 9th of May 2017, Ordinary Meeting.

The report covers main issues as the author sees it, or could be a matter of public interest.
This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.  Download report here.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting council meeting 20 March, 2017

There were two meetings of Council since the February report, 28th February 2017 and 14th of March 2017.

The report covers main issues as determined by the Committee of Management (CoM) that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.  The report can be downloaded from here.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting council meeting 31 January and 14 February 2017

There were two meetings of Council, 31 January and 14 February, 2017 both which were discussed at NRDCAA meeting on 20 February, 2017. The report can be downloaded from here.

The report covers main issues as determined by the Committee of Management (CoM) that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting on 29 November and 13 December, 2016

There were two meetings of Council, 29 November and 13 December, 2016, since the November Report.  The report can be downloaded from here.

The report covers main issues as determined by the Committee of Management (CoM) that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting on 25 October and 8 November, 2016

There were two meetings of Council, 25th of October 2016 and the 8th of November 2016, since the October Report.  The report can be downloaded from here.

The report covers main issues as determined by the Committee of Management (CoM) that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.
Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting on 27 September and the Extraordinary meeting 11 October, 2016

There were two meetings of Council since the September Report, 27th of September 2016, Extraordinary, and the 11th of October 2016, Ordinary meeting of Council.  The report covers main issues as determined by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.  Download the report here.  This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions, and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Report from Council meeting on 30 August, 2016 and 2016 Council Election results

The August 2016 report covers main issues as determined by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.  Download the report from here.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website. 

This report also includes the results from the 2016 Hawkesbury City Council Elections.

Report from Council Meeting July 2016

The July 2016 report covers main issues as determined by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.  Download the report from here.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website. 

Reports from Council meetings for May and June 2016

There were two meetings of Council since the May Report, 31st of May, 2016 and 14th of June (Extra-Ordinary).

The report covers main issues as determined by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers, or could be a matter of public interest.  Download the report from here

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and resolutions are mostly truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website. 

Reports from Council meetings for February and March 2016

There were four meetings of Council since the February Report, February 18th and 23rd, 8th and 21st of March 2016.

The report covers main issues as determine by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers, or is a matter of public interest.  Download the report from here

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. The Reports, motions and some resolutions are truncated.

Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Council Report for November, 2015

Council report for November, 2015 meeting, download here.

Council Report for September 2015

Council report for September 2015 meeting, download here.

The report covers main issues as determine by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers west of the river.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Council Report for July and August 2015

Council report for July and August 2015 meeting, download here.

The report covers main issues as determine by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers west of the river.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Council Report to NRDCAA (the Association) meeting 16th February 2015

Council Report to NRDCAA (the Association) meeting 16th February 2015.

The report covers three meetings of Council, 25 November, December 2014 and February 2015.
The report covers main issues as determine by the CoM that could affect residents and ratepayers west of the river.

This report should not be relied upon by residents and ratepayers. Council Business Papers and Minutes of each meeting are available on the Council website.

Download report here

Redbank Voluntary Planning Agreement 2014

The NRDCAA Committee of Management is very disappointed that Council approved the Voluntary Planning Agreement (VPA) for Redbank at the Council meeting on 1/7/2014.

How our Councillors voted:
For: Ford, Tree, Conolly, Creed, Porter, Mackay and Reardon
Against:  Calvert, Lyons-Buckett, Paine, Williams. 
Did not participate Rasmussen, conflict of interest

The community rightly ask the question why Council would enter into an agreement that is vague, leans towards the Developer and lacks transparency and clear detail if it has the interest of the community at the heart of their decision making powers.

Clearly the majority of Councillors don’t.

The VPA does not provide certainty that a bridge can or will be built at Navua, nor does the NRDCAA support a bridge across two popular Reserves at Navua and Yarramundi.

Many residents have been misled into believing that a bridge will be built.

How many residents and ratepayers are aware the proposed bridge at Navua has a five tonne load limit?

The community will not know whether a bridge will be built or not, till the Subdivision Certificate for the creation of the 461st urban lot or such later date as agreed between the parties, ie the Council, RMS and the Developer.

By that time the traffic congestion will be unbearable.

What will we do then? In frustration, hop out of our cars and leave them?

Already a provider of disability services report cost increases due to excessive traffic congestion causing a blow out in cost, when transporting disabled youngsters to and from school.

The NRDCAA called for the Bridge to be approved prior to any urban lots subdivision certificates being issued. The majority of Councillors ignored the request.

The Developer and Council claim $55 million will be spent on infrastructure, but only about $29 million is identifiable and guaranteed in the VPA.

We also called for the Council to have finishing dates on the upgrading of the intersections between Richmond and North Richmond to no avail.

The NRDCAA sought an urgent meeting with Councillor Ford Mayor of HCC and Councillor Tree Deputy Mayor prior to the Council meeting. That request was rejected.

The community deserves better from the leaders of Council. The community west of the river have lost confidence in our leaders. They seem to represent a political party rather than the interest of residents and ratepayers of the Hawkesbury.

The NRDCAA thanks Councillors Calvert, Lyons- Buckett, Paine, Rasmussen and Williams for their support of the community and our endeavours.

The struggle is not over yet.

Authorised by the CoM NRDCAA 5 07 2014.

Council Meeting 1 July, 2014 - Voluntary Planning Application (VPA) for Rebank development

The council meeting on 24/7/14 was suspended when five councillors walked out mid-way through, after Mayor Ford refused to allow Councillor Williams to speak out against the VPA. The advantage here is that the Voluntary Planning Application (VPA) now needs to go up in front of Council again. The community has another chance to let its feelings be known.

The community attendance at the meeting was not great. We appreciate you have lives, we can’t help but wonder if the bulk of you simply hoped there would be enough “others” to communicate community opinion? We also appreciate that many of you feel jaded after attending other rallies and seeing how little our voice seems to count to Council. We all feel jaded.

The VPA examines what the developer proposes to provide by way of infrastructure with the Redbank development at Grose Vale. That development, for those new to this page, has been approved and will create 1400 new home sites in Grose Vale Road. In conjunction with the over-55s village already onsite, this will result in around 3000 more cars per day on the roads in and around North Richmond, including on the already congested access across the river.

The developer proposes to do nothing to rectify this until several hundred new homes have been built. In layman’s terms this means that absolutely nothing is already investigated or guaranteed and we would not see anything even CONSIDERED until at least 2017. Three more years of ever increasing traffic jams people. THEN, they will need to go through planning, environmental studies and other due diligence. Estimations and timings raised at the council meeting are they would not have alternative river for a long time off, if at all. 

The suggested alternative route across the river is not to widen to North Richmond Bridge but to create a new bridge in Navua Reserve in Grose Wold and cut across to Castlereagh Road…This is not investigated in any way, shape or form for feasibility. Should this solution not go ahead (and many say it won’t), then the developer is under no obligation to deliver any solution at all, but instead will provide Hawkesbury Council or RMS with $23m for roads and infrastructure.

Four Councillors – Paine, Lyons-Buckett, Williams, Calvert are proposing the Developer should provide an infrastructure solution prior to building the 1400 new homes. One Councillor (Rasmussen) is abstaining due to pecuniary interest.

Despite 4,500 petition signatures and around 300 submissions against development without infrastructure first, seven councillors still don’t understand what an issue the traffic is to this community.

Make no mistake, as they form the majority, the seven remaining councillors: Ford, Porter, Connolly, Creed, Tree, Mackay and Reardon will support the developer's VPA to do nothing until somewhere between 400-800 houses have been built (that number still to be determined).

The only hope we have to make them reconsider (even if it is to question their chance of re-election) is to turn up next Tuesday 1 July at 6:30pm at Council.

ACTION FOR YOU: Jaded or not, We really urge you to find a couple of hours to come along to Council meeting NEXT Tuesday 1 July (366 George St Windsor) and let them see how you feel. You have a week’s notice to get a babysitter, try to slip away from work early or whatever has kept you from coming until now. It doesn’t matter if you are a couple of minutes late. Tell your neighbours. Tell your friends. Copy this post and email it to those not on Facebook. Show Council how important this traffic issue is to this community. Please give some indication if you will be coming. This truly seems to be your last chance to have a say!

Council Meeting 26 November 2013 - Rescission Motion

Fellow Members and Friends of the Hawkesbury, there has been a Rescission Motion lodged by non-Liberal Councillors- it is an attempt to have the ridiculous decision of the last HCC meeting overturned regarding the development at North Richmond. Please attend and show your support for the Councillors who are supporting the community. Council Chambers ,George Street, Windsor, Tuesday 26^th November 2013.The meeting usually starts at 6:30pm and entry is usually available from about 6:15pm but if the developers stack the meeting again and prevent residents and ratepayers from attending it may be difficult to gain entry so it may be best to arrive as early as you can.

You may have read letters in the Gazette from the developer and those who will profit at your expense insulting the community and making false statements about members of the community. I think it says much about the people who are prepared to lie and denigrate honest people who are merely trying to have the people who are being paid to represent them do what they are paid to do.

Please encourage your family, friends and neighbours to come along. We have had little notice of this so have not been able publicise it widely, so it is up to you.

Council Meeting - Rezoning of Rebank at North Richmond - 12/11/13 6.30pm

REZONING - REBANK NORTH RICHMOND

·         1,399 additional houses (1,200 houses now)
·         2,800 + additional vehicles
·         Traffic congestion increases
·         Developers contribution $28 million
·         No plans drawn up and costings for proposed second crossing at Navau Reserve
·         No bridge improvement discussions until 500 dwellings approved
·         If plans rejected, what then?
·         RMS estimate infrastructure costs estimated to be over $100 million

SHORTFALL $72 MILLION

·         State Government have stated they will not contribute
·         Hawkesbury City Council do not have the funds
·         Who will pay?

NO BUDGET = NO APPROVAL

Come and support your community against this inappropriate development

Tuesday 12 November, 2013 at 6.30pm

Council Chambers

George Street

Windsor