About Waverton Precinct

Since the 1970’s, North Sydney Council have divided the entire council area into “precincts” and by actively supporting community groups in each precinct, the Council can provide feedback, gather ideas, priortise projects, provide timely communications and generally support resident goals and keep them informed.

While North Sydney Council does not have any active involvement in the day-to-day running of the precincts, they do oversee the processes, provide funding, sets boundaries, and require us to have AGMs and Minuted meetings. The Precinct Committees are run by residents. Individual Precinct Committee meeting comments are reported to and considered by Council as part of its decision-making process. Overall co-ordination of all the precincts is through a forum known as the Combined Precincts Committee who meet regularly.

Anyone who is a local resident can join their local Precinct Committee to share views on a range of topics and to help inform Council of community opinion on projects, plans and proposals.

Precinct Committees are one of many ways that Council stays abreast of community opinion and maintains two-way communications between community members and Council staff and Councillors.

In the words of the North Sydney Council website in relation to community engagement: “Community engagement has become an essential part of government planning, policy development and service delivery. It improves the quality of decisions and is an important part of being responsive to community and stakeholder needs.” Precincts also encourage social interaction within the local community by coordinating events.

The aim of Waverton Precinct is to continue to provide a platform which allows its residents to participate in the democratic life of our area, from the most modest DA to the largest proposed incursions into our public spaces, freedoms and lifestyles.

More about the Precinct system can be located at:
https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/precinct-committees

Waverton has had an active community throughout its history. It was the local community who pressed to save Balls Head from industrial and housing development in the 1930s. The next generation of residents had a similar victory in gaining Carradah Park from the old BP site in the 1990s, and more recently fended off a proposed oversized marina and a floating dry dock.