Media Releases

$1m Simms Road Oval Redevelopment Starts

A $1m redevelopment of Simms Road Oval in Montmorency has started with the $180,000 refurbishment of the ground underway and construction of an $820,000 pavilion to replace shipping containers imminent.

Hawdon Ward Councillor Steven Briffa said the long awaited redevelopment would increase opportunities for people to play sport, help alleviate the shortage of playing grounds across Banyule, and meet the huge demand for sporting facilities from the Montmorency-Greensborough community.

Council Responds to C66 Decision

Surf Coast Shire Council Mayor, Cr Rose Hodge, says the community will be disappointed at the Planning Minister’s decision to rezone land 1km west of Duffields Road as Urban Growth Zone.

The decision is part of the Planning Minister’s determination on Planning Amendment C66, which was announced in today’s Victorian Government Gazette.

In December 2013, Council voted 4-3 to ask the Minister to set Torquay’s urban growth boundary at Duffields Road as part of Council’s consideration of Planning Amendment C66.

Gympie region drought relief information sessions

Gympie Regional Council, in partnership with the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, QRAA and the Australian Government Department of Human Services is hosting Drought Relief Assistance and Information sessions across the Gympie region.

Lord Mayor comment: Resources for regions

Lord Mayor Jeff McCloy today welcomed the announcement of $5.6million funding from the NSW Government’s Resources for Regions program.