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  • Have your say on Council’s Community Waste Management System plan
    18th April 2024
    Council is seeking community feedback on its Community Waste Management Systems Plan for 2024. Council operates five CWMS effluent systems that control and remove effluent waste in townships with these being integral parts to the way effluent is

  • Deputy Mayor Agnew departs Wakefield
    16th April 2024
    Deputy Mayor Denni Agnew has tendered her immediate resignation from Wakefield Regional Council and will no longer serve on Council as of Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Mrs Agnew was elected to Council during the 2018 election as a Councillor for the

  • Get your project off the ground with Council’s Community Grants
    8th April 2024
    Council’s Minor and Major Community Grants are open again for 2024/25, with Major grant categories able to benefit from up to $25,000 in funding and $2,000 for minor grants. Each year these grants support community groups to achieve their desired

  • Lease Renewal for Telecommunications 1009 Blyth Road, Blyth
    27th March 2024
    • Public Notice
    In 2004 Telstra constructed a telecommunication tower on the golf course land at 1009 Blyth Road, to service the Blyth township and surrounding residents. The current lease is due to expire on 30 April 2024. Amplitel are proposing a 20-year term (4

  • Bounce into Youth Week with Wakefield
    12th March 2024
    Council’s Youth Week events will return for 2024 celebrating our region’s youth with free events in Snowtown and Balaklava. Council’s Community Wellbeing Officer, Taryn Hall is encouraging local youth from across the region to come out and

  • Citizen of the Year Australia Day Awards announced for 2024
    28th November 2023
    Country Fire Service (CFS) volunteers have been highlighted in this year’s Australia Day Awards with both our Citizen of the Year Fred Groom and our Young Citizen of the Year Erin Pycroft being active members within local CFS brigades in Wakefield.

  • Koolunga Road to benefit from $750k of funding
    23rd October 2023
    Wakefield Regional Council has secured $750k in funding for road reconstruction works on Koolunga Road, Brinkworth. The project was one of five that shared in $4.6M of funding which Legatus was able to secure from the Supplementary Local Road

  • Feltham’s high achieving wins her the VET award
    4th October 2023
    Thrill seeking and hard work are what drives this year’s Vocational Education Training (VET) student of the year Rachel Feltham. Council crowned its VET student of the year on Thursday, September 28, with Balaklava High School student Rachel

  • Wakefield Regional Council appoints a new CEO
    27th September 2023
    Mayor Rodney Reid announced today the appointment of Mr Darren Starr as Wakefield Regional Council’s new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment results from a comprehensive recruitment process conducted by Council and external consultants,

  • Community Grants help activate our great spaces in Wakefield
    31st July 2023
    Council’s Community Grants have been announced for 2023/24 with the grants supporting $100,000 in community initiatives to activate 12 projects for our local community groups. Grants are nominated in either the Minor or Major category. Minor

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