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NSW’s $108.5bn infrastructure spend: Where is the money going? By Fergus Halliday 23 June 2021 | 1 minute read SHARE The NSW state government just announced a record-setting amount of new infrastructure spending. Here’s where that money is going. As part of this year’s state budget, the NSW government has announced $108.5 billion in infrastructure spending over the next four years. Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said, “NSW already has regained the ground lost during COVID-19, but it is hard to believe that only 12 months ago, our state was nearing the deepest point of its first recessi...

For example, the program has delivered some $9m in funding for a new lift at the Hawkesbury River station in the Liberal seat of Hornsby despite significantly lower patronage than other Labor-held seats. While Hawkesbury River, which is in the seat of the environment minister, Matt Kean, recorded a patronage of 2,892 passengers a week, other Labor-held seats such as Doonside and Macquarie Fields with higher patronage – 24,716 and 10,598 respectively – missed out on the funding. Doonside is not scheduled to have a lift installed until 2023, while Macquarie Fields station has not had fundin...

Weston's Sovereign Centre. - Credit: Archant North Somerset Council has today (Thursday) approved a business plan to repurpose Weston's Sovereign Shopping Centre. The council's executive approved the plan for the Sovereign Centre and the commissioning plan for the appointment of consultants and contractors to undertake works to convert vacant retail space into new mixed-use space. The appointment of an operator to manage the space was also agreed by executive members. Any change in name to the Sovereign Centre will be subject to an engagement and consultation exercise. The first phase of wor...

Weston's Sovereign Centre. - Credit: Archant Weston's Sovereign Shopping Centre is to get a new lease of life with plans to re-purpose the building. Following the coronavirus pandemic, changing lifestyles and the increase of online shopping has had an irreversible effect on town centres and how they are used. North Somerset Council is responding to those changes to cement the future of the Sovereign Centre by creating a new plan for the building. The new vision and business plan have been created to deliver the ambitions of the newly adopted Weston Placemaking Strategy and to promote communi...