Blacktown’s Kerry Robinson warns rates would need to rise by 40% to pay for community facilities for more than 250,000 expected new residents
The chief executive of New South Wales’ largest council is calling for a new tax on developers to pay for social infrastructure such as swimming pools, warning the alternative would be to raise rates in urban fringe communities by 40%.
Earlier this year, the Blacktown mayor, Tony Bleasdale, told ABC radio Blacktown only had five swimming pools to service the entire council area, whereas Randwick had a pool for every 17,000 people. Robinson said urban fringe councils in the Hunter, Illawarra and Sydney metropolitan areas were facing a combined shortfall for community facilities of more than $4bn but this could not be recouped through rates alone.
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