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May 2009
Woman Transported DVD Wins Award
22 May 2009Parramatta City Council’s Heritage and Information Centre was awarded the Multimedia Publication (Category A) Award for its production of the Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories DVD at the Museums Australia annual awards ceremony on Monday night. more...
Green Light For Civic Place
15 May 2009The decision today by the NSW State Government to clarify the intention of the Lands Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act is welcomed by Parramatta City Council as it moves ahead with the first stages of the Civic Place development in the Parramatta CBD. more...
Draft Budget Breaks Even
14 May 2009Parramatta City Council is successfully weathering the financial storm with a break-even Management Plan that goes on public exhibition from next week. Council on Monday adopted the draft budget which commits $127 million to services in the City with a further $40.2 million dedicated to infrastructure projects. more...
Sydney Water Flows Into Parramatta
08 May 2009New data released this week by Parramatta City Council estimates that Sydney Water’s move to Sydney’s second CBD is likely to generate up to 2,000 additional jobs in the local economy. more...
Tamil Protests in Church Street Mall
05 May 2009Tamil protesters stationed in Church Street Mall, Parramatta, were asked today to move on after repeated requests to comply with local safety regulations by Council officers. Up to one hundred protestors have been there since the weekend. more...
Council Staffer Takes Top Arts Gong
04 May 2009Parramatta City Council’s Arts and Culture Project Officer Andrew Overton was awarded the prestigious Brendan Hartnett Award at the New South Wales Local Government Cultural Awards on Friday night. more...
April 2009
Feds Boost Granville’s Urban Renewal
28 Apr 2009Granville Town Centre is set to become a model for retail, social and commercial activity after the Federal Government yesterday announced they would assist in funding the third stage of Council’s upgrade works along South Street. more...
Carp Fish-Out Returns
24 Apr 2009Come along and do your part, throw in a line and catch a Carp. Parramatta City Council invites you to the riverbank of Parramatta River to participate in the third big Carp Fish-Out competition. more...
Granville Renewal Work Begins
24 Apr 2009As part of the Granville Better Neighbourhood Program, the $1.5 million works on South Street, Granville will begin next month after the tender for the upgrade was accepted by Council last week. more...
Parramatta Arts Fellowship
16 Apr 2009Parramatta City Council is calling for applications for its third annual $20,000 Arts Fellowship Grant awarded each year to a visual artist who has contributed to art-making within the Parramatta Local Government Area. more...
More Parking Tax – and No Return
08 Apr 2009Small businesses and ratepayers across Sydney will once again be hit in the pocket with the latest round of parking levy increases introduced by the NSW State Government. more...
Parramatta To Host World Chess Festival
03 Apr 2009Grand chess masters from around the world will converge on Parramatta as part of the five-day International Chess Festival which begins at Parramatta Town Hall on Wednesday, 15 April. more...
Civic Place High Court Decision
02 Apr 2009"Parramatta City Council is committed to seeing this vital development in the heart of Parramatta go ahead. We will be now working closely with the State Government and the Department of Planning to look at the legislative options to clarify our compulsory acquisition powers and ensure the Civic Place project is realised," said Dr Robert Lang, Chief Executive Officer of Parramatta City Council. more...
March 2009
Economic Stimulus Works Get The Nod
25 Mar 2009Fifteen community infrastructure projects throughout Parramatta were yesterday accepted by the Federal Government as part of the $250 million Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program announced in November last year. more...
CEO Sets The Challenge For The City
20 Mar 2009New Chief Executive Officer of Parramatta City Council, Dr Rob Lang, today outlined the challenges facing Sydney’s second CBD if it is to transform into a major metropolis and the key commercial, cultural and tourism hub of Western Sydney. more...
Earth Hour 09: the Power Is In Your Hands
13 Mar 2009As climate change continues to be a hot topic around the world, Parramatta City Council is calling on residents and businesses to take part in Earth Hour 2009 by turning off their lights between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Saturday 28 March. more...
Parramatta Water Challenge
09 Mar 2009Could you survive on just 20 litres of water a day? Parramatta City Council would like to challenge you to take the World Water Day 20 Litre Challenge - using no more than 20 litres of water on March 22. more...
Crime Prevention Plan Given the Tick
06 Mar 2009Parramatta City Council’s continued vigilance in reducing crime and maintaining Sydney’s second city as a safe environment has been given an additional boost today with the State Government’s Attorney-General endorsing Council’s Crime Prevention Plan (CPP). more...
Parramatta the New 'Eat Street'
02 Mar 2009People across the country are taking another look at Parramatta as it claims the crown of Sydney’s ‘Eat Street’. more...
Bad Politics a Road Block to Good Policy
02 Mar 2009The State Government must stop making isolated and rash decisions with Sydney’s transport network, such as the sudden cancellation of the M4 extension from Strathfield to the city and take an integrated approach to transport across the entire metropolitan said the Lord Mayor of Parramatta City Council, Cr Tony Issa OAM. more...
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