Council rates in Campbelltown will increase by 1.5 percent in the next 12 months.
According to the proposed budget for 2017-18, which has to be made public for 28 days before being adopted, the Capital Expenditure Program amounts to just under $36 million.
The major project in the program is the Campbelltown Sports and Health Centre of Excellence on a site inside the Western Sydney University.
Council will fund the centre over three years with a $15 million allocation.
The Federal Government is also contributing to the project as per its election promise.
Other projects included in the Capital Expenditure Program include play space renewals, all abilities regional play space, cycleway construction, sport and recreation projects, building renewal as well as roads, bridge and footpath construction and reconstruction.
The draft plan is included for discussion in the business paper for tonight’s meeting of Campbelltown Council and is expected to get the nod from councillors.
The operational plan for next includes a message from the general manager, Lindy Deitz, who says that “Campbelltown City has a new emerging role to play in the growth and development of metropolitan Sydney’’.
“Important decisions by government such as the Western Sydney Airport, the South West District Plan, the Glenfield-Macarthur Priority Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy and the Greater Macarthur Priority Growth Area all herald a new era of development and urban growth for Campbelltown City,’’ says Ms Deitz.
“Marketing Campbelltown City and its opportunities to invest, both to the business sector and to higher levels of government, remains a high level commitment in this operational plan and additional resources have been allocated to the Division of City Growth and Economy.’’
Some key initiatives that council will pursue over the next 12 months include:
Western Sydney City Deal;
An updated Metropolitan Plan for Sydney;
Campbelltown Sport and Health Centre of Excellence;
Health and Education Precinct for the Campbelltown-Macarthur Regional City Centre, and
Campbelltown-Macarthur CBD Transformation.
“It is very important to Council that a focus be maintained on three key issues in particular,’’ Ms Deitz said in her message.
1. Transport and traffic movement across our city and the connectivity between Campbelltown to other key destinations such as:
the Macarthur Region and South West Sydney, including the SW Growth Centre;
other metropolitan centres such as Sydney CBD, Parramatta, Liverpool, Penrith and Blacktown;
Western Sydney Airport;
Employment precincts such as the broader Western Sydney employment area.
2. Job retention and creation at locations accessible to the Campbelltown workforce
3. Critical population serving infrastructure such as health facilities and services.
