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Burwood

Burwood Council covers 7,493 km² and is in the inner west of Sydney, on the southern side of the Parramatta River.

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Part of the Parramatta River catchment.

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Community

The Burwood 2030 Community Strategic Plan 2018, states that the community’s long- term vision for Burwood is:

“a well-connected, innovative, sustainable and safe community that embraces and celebrates its diversity”.

Key facts and considerations are:

  • the population is expected to grow a further 44% to 76,350 people by 2041
  • 57% of residents were born overseas. (Draft Sustainable Burwood Strategy 2021)

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Litter policy

Burwood Council’s draft Sustainable Burwood Strategy has been on public exhibition and will go to a Council meeting in early 2022.

An Action Plan will be developed in 2022.

The Strategy builds on Council’s successful Green Action Plan 2012.

The draft Strategy has a litter priority identified in Theme 1 Waterways and Stormwater.

Priority:

  • participation in the Zero Litter to River initiative. Council endorsed the Zero Litter to River target, by 30 June 2030 in September 2019.

Target:

  • assist and contribute to improving the water quality of the Cooks River and Parramatta River catchments and improve the management of stormwater within our communities.

 

The impact of litter is also mentioned in Theme 2 Effective Waste Management.

Priority:

  • maintain enforcement of illegal dumping and litter hotspots and deliver a street sweeping and cleaning maintenance service.

Target:

  • reduction of litter in hotspots by 50%.

Projects

Burwood Council has placed cigarette butt bins in the commercial areas along Burwood Road and The Strand. The Clean and Safe team have reported that the area is cleaner.

Burwood Council has been working with schools for many years to educate students on litter and litter prevention (e.g. zero waste lunch). The Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) located in Five Dock, is working with the Parramatta River Catchment Group’s Our Living River to bring back turtles to the Parramatta River. As part of the One Million Turtles Project the school has committed to reduce litter around the school.

Hotspots

Waste and Sustainability staff have identified the following:

  • the railway corridor as a major hotspot for Burwood
  • the commercial area of Burwood Road
  • public parks and sports fields at Enfield,
  • Wangal Park and Croydon Park.