PHOTO: Councils grapple with the need to become land developers. Image: realestate.com.au
Warrumbungle Shire Council is looking at the possibility of partnering with private enterprise to push forward on residential land development in the shire.
The council has long planned to subdivide parcels of land in Reservoir Street Coonabarabran. The proposal was to create 30 residential allotments.
But newly released council documents state “Efforts had been made to work with Landcom to undertake thi,s however this does not now seem achievable” and that “Council may consider some private partnership arrangement to develop the land…