Christmas and New Year closure details

Council's Customer Service will be closed from 4:30pm Tuesday 23 December and will reopen at 8:30am Monday 6 January 2025. For urgent matters please call Council on 6655 7300 to be connected to our After Hours service.
Council will continue to provide services for our community over the Christmas period with some changes to operating hours of our facilities.

For more information on changes to our services

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Water Alert 16/12/24

Water samples taken on 16/12/24 at Arthur Keough Reserve showed “Poor” water quality. This means that at the time of sampling bacterial levels indicate a substantially increased risk of illness to bathers. NSW Office of Environment and Heritage’s advice after heavy rain, is to avoid ocean swimming for 24 hours and rivers, lagoons and estuaries for 3 days

More information on the Beachwatch program

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Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2022-2026

Our community vision states that we are Connected, Sustainable and Creative. To achieve this vision, everyone needs to be able to participate and be included in our community.

Bellingen Shire Councils Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2022-2026 explains how we will work over the next four years to support people with disability have greater access to information, services and facilities and how we will remove barriers to access and participation, including discrimination based on disability. We recently updated this Plan with the help of people in our community who live with disability.

Below are four key outcome areas that are determined by the NSW Disability Inclusion Action Plan Guidelines.

Promoting positive attitudes and behaviours
Creating liveable communities
Supporting access to meaningful employment
Better systems and processes

To view the Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2022-2026 and associated Appendix, see below:

Disability-Inclusion-Action-Plan-2022-2026.pdf(PDF, 1MB)

Appendix-Disability-Inclusion-Action-Plan-2022-2026.pdf(PDF, 45KB)

To view the Easy Read version of the Disability Inclusion Action Plan, see below:

Bellingen-Shire-DIAP-Easy-Read-version.pdf(PDF, 1MB)

Progress Reports

Each year we report on what we did to improve access and inclusion for people with disability. See below:

DIAP-Annual-Progress-Report-2023-2024.pdf(PDF, 1MB)

DIAP-Annual-Progress-Report-2022-2023.pdf(PDF, 1MB)

DIAP-Annual-Progress-Report-2020-2021.pdf(PDF, 155KB)

DIAP-Annual-Progress-Report-2019-2020.pdf(PDF, 159KB)

DIAP-Annual-Progress-Report-2018-2019.pdf(PDF, 366KB)

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