FAQs

The Delivery Program 2025-2029 outlines the Council's commitment, during the current term, to implementing the objectives of the Blue Mountains Community Strategic Plan 2050.

The Operational Plan 2026-2027 provides more detail on what services the Council will be delivering over the next 12 months, and how much money is available to deliver those services. 

The Fees & Charges 2026-2027 is part of the Operational Plan 2026-2027, published as a separate document for ease of use. The Fees and Charges listed in the document are developed in accordance with the Council's pricing methodology for the services it provides to the community. 

More information on Council's Integrated Plans can be found on our website.

The Council is also required to report back to community on the progress being made in implementing these plans.

The Council provides a wide range of services to the Blue Mountains community, including the following:

•  Aquatic & Leisure 

•  Arts & Culture

•  City Planning

•  Civil Infrastructure

•  Community Development

•  Development 

•  Economy & Visitation

•  Environmental Compliance

•  Environmental Living

•  Healthy Country

•  Project Delivery & Design

•  Libraries & Information

•  Operational Support Services

•  Place Management

•  Resource Recovery & Waste Management

•  Sports, Recreation & Cemeteries

•  Strategic & Governance

•  Sustainable Living

•  Transport Strategy & Projects

•  Water Resource Management.

The Council provides, maintains and renews over $1.1 billion worth of built assets, and manages 10,000 hectares of bushland, including the following: 

•  Endangered Ecological Communities and Threatened Species

•  Cemeteries (including fencing, pathways and garden beds)

•  Buildings for child care centres and preschools

•  Tourist parks, residential buildings, commercial buildings

•  Public halls and community centre buildings

•  Buildings for the Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Services and fire trails

•  Buildings for cultural development (including the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub), monuments, public art

•  Buildings for libraries

•  Depots and administration buildings

•  Aquatic and fitness centres, parks (including public toilets and shelters), sportgrounds, playing courts, skate parks, walking tracks and lookouts

•  Visitor Information Centres and Echo Point Lookout and associated infrastructure

•  Street furniture, litter bins, community notice boards, garden beds, public toilets

•  Guardrails, signs, marked crossings, roundabouts, pedestrian refuges

•  Roads (sealed and unsealed), footpaths, bridges, carparks, bus shelters

•  Kerb and gutter, pipes, pits, open channels, stormwater quality improvement devices

•  Waste management facilities.