Hearing on water and sewerage pricing

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, November 27, to seek community views about the prices Central Coast Council is proposing to charge for its water, sewerage, stormwater and related services from July 1 next year.

The venue for the only hearing will be the Mingara Recreation Club at Tumbi Umbi and residents wishing to attend will need to register at ipart.nsw.gov.au

This is the first time these prices have been reviewed since the merger of the former Wyong and Gosford councils.

In preparation for the hearing, the Tribunal has released its preliminary views on the Council's pricing proposals for discussion.

Chair Dr Peter Boxall said the Tribunal was particularly interested in stakeholder views on harmonising sewerage and stormwater prices between the Gosford and Wyong areas, increasing stormwater prices for non-residential and rural customers, charging retirement villages non-residential service prices, and service levels and expenditure.

These and other issues will be discussed at the public hearing which will commence at 10am.

"The public forum at Tumbi Umbi is an opportunity for IPART to hear first-hand local community views about the Council's proposals so we can consider these views when making our decisions," Dr Boxall said.

"We know there is keen interest in the community about this review as we have received 127 submissions to the Council's proposal.

"We will again seek submissions to our draft report in April 2019."

Those attending the public forum will be given the opportunity to speak as time allows.

SOURCE:

Media release, 15 Nov 2018

Peter Boxall, IPART