Campbelltown Council 10.7

[Clara Zellinger]

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The City of Campbelltown is a local government area in the Macarthur region of south-western Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The area is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) south west of the Sydney central business district and comprises 312 square kilometres (120 sq mi).

Over the 10-year period between the 2001 census and the 2011 census, the population of the Campbelltown Local Government Area increased by a recorded total of 673 people (0.46% increase in population over 10 years) from 145,294 people to 145,967 people. During that 10-year period the population had decreased by 1.53% at the 2006 census, and experienced a population increase of 2.02% over the subsequent five years to the 2011 census. At the 2016 census, the population in the Campbelltown Local Government Area increased by 7.56%. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8%, population growth in the Campbelltown Local Government Area was slightly below the national average.[4][5][6] The median weekly income for residents within the Campbelltown Local Government Area was generally on par with the national average.[3]

Campbelltown City Council is composed of fifteen councillors elected proportionally as one entire ward. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is elected by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent council election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council is as follows:[7]

Campbelltown was founded in 1820, named after Elizabeth Macquarie ne Campbell,[13] wife of the then Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The town was one of a series of south-western settlements established by Macquarie at that time; the others include Ingleburn and Liverpool.

Campbelltown Council was originally incorporated on 21 January 1882.[14] The present boundaries of the City of Campbelltown were largely formed in 1949, following the amalgamation of the Municipalities of Ingleburn (incorporated in April 1896) and Campbelltown, as part of a rationalisation of local government areas across New South Wales following World War II. Campbelltown was presented with its own coat of arms in 1969. The coat of arms were based those on the arms of the Campbell family in Scotland.

Campbelltown was designated as a satellite city and a regional capital for the south west of Sydney in the early 1960s in the Sydney Region Outline Plan, prepared by the Planning Commission of New South Wales. There was extensive building and population growth in the intervening time and the government surrounded the township with areas which were set aside for public and private housing and industry.

Campbelltown was declared a city on 4 May 1968 by the Hon. Pat Morton, Minister for Local Government and Highways. That same day saw the arrival of the first electric train to Campbelltown from Sydney.

As a city, Campbelltown honoured the 1st Signals Regiment (now the 1st Joint Support Unit) with the medieval custom of the Freedom of the city. The mayor, Alderman Clive Tregear, wanted to recognise the contribution to the units based at the Ingleburn Army Barracks. The regiment marched through Campbelltown until it got transferred to Queensland in the 1980s.[citation needed]

There is no direct eastern road access.As a fast-growing regional centre, road infrastructure has yet to catch up with the historically strong population growth. Areas of greatest concern include congestion on Narellan Road,[36][37] numerous road fatalities on Appin Road and the inadequate causeway over the Georges River at Cambridge Avenue, Glenfield.[38]

The Auditor-General for New South Wales, Margaret Crawford, today released a report on Domestic waste management in Campbelltown City Council and Fairfield City Council.The report found that both Councils collect and transport domestic kerbside waste effectively and process it at a low cost. The Councils also effectively process waste placed in green-lid and yellow-lid bins, but neither Council has been able to enforce their contracts for processing red-lid bin waste. As a result, almost all such waste goes straight to landfill.

Local councils provide waste management services to their residents. They collect domestic waste primarily through kerbside services, but also at council drop off facilities. Waste management is one of the major services local councils deliver. Each year, councils collectively manage an estimated 3.5 million tonnes of waste generated by New South Wales residents.

This audit assessed how effectively and economically Campbelltown City Council and Fairfield City Council are managing domestic kerbside waste collection, transportation and processing. In making this assessment, the audit examined whether:

Municipal waste is waste from households and local government operations. This includes waste placed at the kerbside, street sweeping, council engineering works and public council bins. Domestic waste is all waste generated by households and comprises 95 per cent of all municipal solid waste.

The Essential Service Act 1988 No 41, requires councils to provide waste management services to their residents. Waste management is one of the major services provided by councils. In New South Wales councils manage over 3.5 million tonnes of waste generated by residents each year. Local councils collect domestic waste through kerbside services, kerbside bulk waste collection and at council drop off facilities. Of these, kerbside services collect the most domestic waste.

The NSW Government regulates the transportation, collection, treatment, storage and disposal of waste. It is responsible for the state wide policies and programs designed to reduce waste, increase recycling and improve community waste disposal behaviours. The two key State government agencies involved are the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and Department of Planning and Environment (DPE). The EPA is primarily responsible for waste regulation and the DPE is responsible for land use planning in New South Wales and is a consent authority for major waste infrastructure such as processing facilities and landfills for New South Wales.

The Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy is guided by a waste hierarchy which underpins the objectives of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001. The hierarchy helps focus attention and effort on activities that achieve the greatest efficiencies in cost, time and resources. Exhibit 3 shows the order of preferred approaches to achieve efficient resource use.

The first target aims to improve the efficient use of materials across the community and avoid generating unnecessary waste. The second target aims to increase the amount of recycled material that is put back into the productive economy. The third target refers to the alternative pathways for materials entering the system that avoid disposal to landfill, such as recycling and energy recovery.

The NSW Government uses several methods to encourage stakeholders to divert waste from landfill, the key driver being a levy that applies to all waste disposed of in landfills within the leviable area. The levy increases each year to provide a financial incentive that makes alternatives, including recovery and recycling programs, more attractive than disposing of waste into landfill.

Transfer stations are used for collecting and transferring waste materials or resources. They receive, sort, compact, temporarily store and distribute waste, and load and unload waste to and from road or rail transport.

Landfills are sites that bury waste. Regulated landfills that accept household waste must be designed to prevent pollution of surrounding groundwater. They must be located a safe distance from residential and commercial areas to minimise the effects of noise and odour.

The Strategy defines the recycling rate as the proportion of all materials recycled in a given year (measured in tonnes) compared with the sum of waste generated in the same year. Recycling excludes recovery of energy from waste processes.

Recycling rate data used in this report was obtained from Council records of verified weighbridge data provided by operators and data provided by processing facilities. Data on recycling rates has limitations. While data on waste generated is specific and reliable, data on waste recycling is not specific and less reliable. Specific data on the amount of waste recycled is not collected. The closest proxy is the recovery rate. Processing facilities measure this rate and councils have no way of assuring it is accurate. This rate is for the whole facility. It is not specific to individual councils because facilities combine waste from several councils before processing it.

The introduction of the Container Deposit Scheme has made it harder for councils to meet their targets, as it provides an incentive for people to cash in their containers rather than putting them in the yellow-lid bin. Having said this, the material is still recycled albeit not counted towards council targets.

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