Sophie Scamps MP to push to include Pittwater on the National Heritage List
April 2025 Sophie Scamps MP, Member for the Federal seat of Mackellar, would like to work with the community to nominate Pittwater to the National Heritage List to protect and [...]
Modern architecture heritage study
The Council has received more than 100 community nominations of buildings from the Modernist period (ie post World War 2), that may be worthy of further investigation and possible heritage [...]
Avalon Customer Contact Centre
Many thanks to our members who emailed Councillors late in 2022 to ask them to oppose reducing hours from 5 dpw to 2 dpw. Our Vice President Dianne Ramsay spoke [...]
Geological heritage item in North Avalon
This recent use of bilious brown/orange sprayed concrete ('shotcrete') at a well-known and loved geological feature on the corner of Wanawong Road at north Avalon, to stabilise steep banks, is [...]
Barrenjoey Alliance for Arts and Culture (BAAC)
The Barrenjoey Alliance for Arts and Culture (BAAC) was formed as a Project of APA in 2017 to initially manage the Avalon Beach Cultural Map. The Map was used to [...]
Palm Beach Fish Shop site 1102 Barrenjoey Road
LATEST NEWS December 2024 The developer, Asia Digital Investments Pty Ltd, appealed the Northern Beaches Local Planning Panel decision to the Land & Environment Court which, consistent with its customary [...]
Council’s Conservation Zone Review
Conservation Zones will form an integral part of the new Northern Beaches Council Local Environment Plan (LEP). APA made a submission regarding Council’s draft Conservation Zone review. NBC referred submissions [...]
Lizard Rock development saga
The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC) was granted land at Belrose, including a site known as Lizard Rock (Patyegarang). On 23 December 2022, the Sydney North Planning Panel approved [...]
Local character statements
NBC has sent APA a confidential copy of its draft Local Character Statement, covering the whole of Pittwater. At this stage we are constrained from making specific comments; however as [...]
New pedestrian barrier for Barrenjoey Road?
NBC is proposing to install a long series of steel barriers along the sides and on the median strip on Barrenjoey Road in the strip between Central Road and the [...]
Cultural space for Avalon
BACKGROUND Through the Merger Savings Fund an allocation of $1 million was made in the NBC budget for 2017/2018 for the development of a new Creative Art (Cultural) Space in [...]
Netball courts for Avalon
In May 2019 NBC approved for public exhibition the proposal to instal four (4) hard surface and lit netball courts and one half-basketball court, to be located next to the [...]
RIP ‘Totally’ Tom Gilbert
Lifetime Avalon Beach resident Tom Gilbert passed away peacefully in NBH at 1.30 on the morning of 27 April 2020. ‘Totally’, as he was affectionately known, was a ‘man for [...]
Community Centre strategy
Council is preparing a strategy to "ensure the current and future use of its multipurpose facilities is sustainable. In particular, it will provide options and recommendations for the strategic provision [...]