Parra News December 14 2021

Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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AN UPDATE
FROM COUNCIL
Streetlights get smart upgrade
Over the coming months, the City of Parramatta,
in partnership with Endeavour Energy, will
replace more than 3,000 streetlights with
smart energy-efficient LED bulbs.
This project is the largest LED and smart street
lighting infrastructure upgrade ever undertaken
in NSW. Once complete in April 2022, threequarters
of the City’s streetlighting network
will comprise of LED lights, resulting in a
saving of $6.2 million over 20 years.
In addition, 1,830 tonnes of greenhouse gas
emissions will be saved each year, and as a
result, this project will play an instrumental role
in helping Council reach the carbon neutral
targets outlined in its 2017 Environmental
Sustainability Strategy. The project also aligns
with Council’s Community Strategic Plan and
‘smart city’ vision.
The technology used in the upgraded network
will allow Endeavour Energy to respond faster
to outages, as well as enable lighting levels to
be programmed to match usage. The project
will also incorporate circular economy
principles, such as diverting old streetlights
and packaging from landfill.
This program builds on upgrades undertaken
between 2015-2021, in which 8,114 residential
lights were replaced.
This $4 million project has been funded by the
Australian Government through the Local Roads
and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) program.
For more information, visit cityofparramatta.
co/led
Food and Garden Organics
Collection Service survey
Council wants to hear your thoughts on its new Food
and Garden Organics Collection Service.
Council is set to launch a new Food and
Garden Organics (FOGO) Collection Service
across the Local Government Area from 2024.
This service means food waste – such as meat,
bones, bread, vegetables, dairy, eggshells,
tea leaves and coffee grinds – can be placed
in the green-lidded organics bin with garden
clippings and be collected weekly.
The FOGO Collection Service will help divert
food and garden waste from landfill, as food
waste currently makes up to 50 per cent of
what goes into Council’s red-lidded bins.
It will also help Council achieve its adopted
target to divert 85 per cent of waste from
landfill by 2038.
Before this service is rolled out, residents are
invited to provide feedback on the preferred
size and collection frequency of their redlidded
garbage bins via a short online survey.
For more information and to have your say, visit
participate.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/fogo
Submissions close at 5pm, Friday 28 January
2022.
To ensure adequate
parking is available,
signposted time limits will
still apply – except for on public
holidays.
For more information, visit cityofparramatta.
nsw.gov.au/living/parking-and-transport/
car-parks
Have your say on late night trading
The City of Parramatta aims to foster a vibrant,
diverse and thriving night-time economy
through careful planning and management to
ensure the City functions effectively, both day
and night.
Council’s Draft Late Night Trading Development
Control Plan, which is currently on public
exhibition, aims to help the growth and
diversification of the City’s night-time economy
by balancing night-time vibrancy and the
needs of the community, encouraging a
broad and inclusive mix of uses throughout
the night, and ensuring good venue practices
to promote safety.
The Development Control Plan proposes an
assessment framework for trading between
10pm and 6am, place-based acoustic
controls, trial periods for extended hours and
standardised management requirements.
For more information and to provide feedback,
visit participate.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/
late-night-trading-DCP
Hard copies can be viewed at Council’s
Customer Contact Centre at 126 Church
Street, Parramatta from Monday to Friday,
10am–3pm (COVID-19 restrictions apply).
Submissions close 5pm, Monday 31 January
2022.
Free parking in the City of
Parramatta
To celebrate the festive season, City of
Parramatta Council is switching off parking
meters and gifting free on-street parking to
residents and visitors from Friday 24 December
2021 to Tuesday 4 January 2022 (inclusive).
The parking elves have also granted one day
of free parking at Council’s multi-level car
parks at Parramatta Station, Justice Precinct
and Eat Street on Christmas Eve. You will
need to take a ticket to be able to enter and
exit the car park, but you will not be charged.
More than 3,000 streetlights in the City of Parramatta
are being replaced with smart energy-efficient LED
bulbs. Photo: Endeavour Energy.
Have your say on Council’s Draft Late Night Trading
Development Control Plan.
Please note: Since printed copies of many of our local newspapers are no longer available,
all Development Applications (DAs), items on exhibition, and public notices will now be available
via Council’s website: cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au
To stay up-to-date with the latest news, visit
cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/news
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