What's News

MEDIA RELEASE 30 April 2021

What’s News

NRL

The NRL clash between the Penrith Panthers and the Manly Sea Eagles will be held on Saturday, May 1 at 3pm.

• Plan your trip; walk, carpool or catch a bus
• Use variety of city parking
• Free buses for park and ride all weekend, provided by Council
• Plan extra time
• Park further away and walk

Visit bathurstnrl.com.au for more information.

CBD CCTV - Stage 3

Works are underway on Stage 3 of the CBD CCTV project. The project will see the installation of fibre optic cable and CCTV cameras in several location in Havannah Street.

Works will occur between 7am and 4pm weekends. While under boring works occur there will be some noise and an impact on parking in the areas where the work is occurring.

Havannah Street will remain open to traffic while the works occur.

Visit bathurst.nsw.gov.au or call 6333 6100 for more information.

Parking enforcement

Since March 2020 Council’s Rangers have taken an educative approach to parking enforcement, issuing cautions for many offences rather than Penalty Infringement Notices Council has taken this approach to enforcement to support the local businesses and the community during the difficult period over the last twelve months.

Over a number of weeks, Council Rangers will escalate enforcement practice to ensure fair and equitable access to parking for all members of the community. This will include restrictions in school zones, bus zones, no parking areas and time restrictions in the carparks.

For more information visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au

Heritage assistance media@bathurst.nsw.gov.augrants now open

Applications are now invited for small grants to assist property owners, and community groups maintain, conserve and interpret the regions heritage and history under Council’s heritage assistance funding programs.

Owners of older properties in the Bathurst Region, community groups with an interest in Bathurst’s local heritage and history and owners of properties in the CBD are encouraged to apply for funding.

Funding is available through the:

• Bathurst Region Heritage Fund 2021/2022
• Bathurst CBD Main Street Improvement Fund 2021/2022
• Bathurst Region Interpretation Fund 2021/2022

Application forms and guidelines are available on Council’s website or from Council’s Environmental, Planning and Building Services Department.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 18 June 2021.

Entries into Waste 2 Art open

The Bathurst Waste 2 Art exhibition and competition will be held at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre between 8 and 23 May. Entry forms are now available on the Council website and entries are open until 5 May. For more information and inspiration visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au

Save the date

NSW Local Government elections will be held on Saturday, 4 September. Voting is

compulsory. For more information visit elections.nsw.gov.au/lge21

Community Tree Planting Day

Sunday 9 May 2021, 10am

Macquarie River – Kefford Street Nursery Open Space

Don your gardening gloves, to help us clean up some of our flood damaged planting sites and help plant native plants along the banks of the Macquarie River. For further information and/or to register please contact Bill Josh on 0407 256 791 or Kristie Kearney (Environmental Programs Coordinator) on 6333 6233 or email

council@bathurst.nsw.gov.au.

ENDS

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