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  • How to stop water supply problems occurring
  • Your rates
    • How to pay your rates
    • Register for eNotices
    • How your rates are calculated
    • What your rates are used for
    • What other charges appear on your rates notice?
    • Rate relief, concessions and rebates
  • Pet ownership
  • Report it
  • Waste and recycling
  • Cemeteries
  • NSW State Revenue fines and fees
  • Schedule of Works
  • Obtaining property information

What your rates are used for

Rates are our main source of income.

They are used to maintain and improve services, and for the provision of facilities, programs, activities and capital works for the community. They also provide essential infrastructure and services.

Projects made possible by rates

 

Upgraded Armidale Road in Nymboida, at Wards Gully and Hortons Creek

We undertook road works on Armidale Road in Nymboida, at Wards Gully and Hortons Creek.

Wooli Hall footpath upgrade

We constructed a footpath to connect the community hall, toilet, tennis courts and carpark.

Middle Creek Bridge upgrade (Sherwood Creek Road)

We replaced the timber bridge with a new concrete bridge.

 

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  • council@clarence.nsw.gov.au

 

Postal address

Locked Bag 23
Grafton NSW 2460

Street address

50 River St, Maclean

2 Prince St, Grafton

ABN 85 864 095 684

 

 

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02 6643 0200

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02 6626 6858

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0427 894 745

 

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 We acknowledge the Bundjalung, Gumbaynggirr and Yaegl people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work. We honour the First Nations peoples culture and connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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