Annual Report
Welcome to the summary version of our 2023/2024 Annual Report The full version is divided into the below seven sections and can be viewed here.
2023/2024
Introduction
Our organisation
Our year in review
Our governance
Our city
Our financial information
Our performance
Year in review The capital works program has invested over $143 million in projects across the Newcastle LGA in the past 12 months – an increase of almost 22% on the previous year’s record investment.
We spent a record $143 million on capital works
Newcastle Ocean Baths – Stage One
Road reconstruction projects
Stage One of the Newcastle Ocean Baths’ renewal and rejuvenation commenced in 2022. This stage primarily focused on enhancing safety, water quality and accessibility. The works included rebuilding the pool and lower promenade and providing a new seawater delivery system. The project also greatly improved access to the pool, improved infrastructure for maintenance, and upgraded seating, shading and public amenity, addressing feedback identified through extensive community engagement and expert engineering advice. The pool reopened for swimming on 21 December 2023.
In 2023/2024, CN continued its commitment to road infrastructure improvements, with a focus on both rehabilitation and resurfacing projects.
• Newcastle Ocean Baths – Stage One • Bathers Way – South Newcastle • Grandstands at Lambton Pool, Passmore Oval and Darling Street Oval • Amenity sand nourishment and buried protection structures, Stockton • University Drive catchment • Ironbark Creek, Wallsend Stage 5 • Perkins Street retaining wall, Newcastle • Chinchen Street traffic control signals, Islington • Playground upgrades at Adamstown Park, Stockton's Rawson Park, Waratah’s Coolamin Reserve, and Islington Park • Major playspace at Gregson Park (completion October 2024) • Street and park tree replacement program.
Delivering this record works program is a significant achievement for our organisation and community, enhancing Newcastle now and into the future to ensure it remains a great place to live, work, play and visit
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Here is a closer look at a few of our major projects.
• Road reconstruction at Irrawang Street, Wallsend • Road reconstruction at Maryland Drive, Maryland • Road reconstruction at Fogo Street, Wallsend • Road rehabilitation at Awabakal Drive, Maryland • Road repairs at Bunn Street, Wallsend
New playgrounds for the city
• Road repairs at Kinta Drive and Arunga Drive, Beresfield
In alignment with CN’s annual playground improvement initiative, we have continued our commitment to revitalising playgrounds throughout the city. This year, we proudly delivered enhancements to the following playgrounds:
• Road repairs at Mordue Parade, Jesmond
• Adamstown Park, Adamstown
In addition, CN invested $10.7 million in road resurfacing projects, which encompassed 41 streets (71 street blocks) and 3 laneways, further enhancing the quality and safety of our road network. These efforts align with our ongoing commitment to maintaining and improving essential infrastructure for the benefit of our community.
• Coolamin Reserve, Waratah • Rawson Park, Stockton • Islington Park, Islington.
A major $3.5 million playspace was delivered at Gregson Park, providing fun and engaging spaces for families. The new playspace includes equipment for a range of ages and abilities, including a 6-metre-high climbing tower, trampolines and a balance obstacle course, as well as a softfall mound with slides, rope and rock-climbing elements. The majority of the work was completed within the 2023/2024 period, with the park opening to the public in early October 2024. Newcastle has 134 playgrounds across the LGA, and we remain dedicated to an ongoing program aimed at modernising and rejuvenating ageing facilities.
• Road repairs at Nelson Street, Wallsend • City-wide laneway renewal initiatives.
Read more about our capital works highlights
Acknowledgment of Country
Key projects delivered in 2023/2024 include: • Road renewal at Irrawang Street, Wallsend
Road rehabilitation projects completed during this period include:
City of Newcastle acknowledges with the deepest respect the Traditional Custodians of this land, a people who belong to the oldest continuing culture in the world. We recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters and unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas. We are grateful for the rich, diverse, living cultures of Aboriginal people. We recognise the history of truth that acknowledges the impact of invasion and colonisation on Aboriginal people and how this still resonates today. We pay our respect to Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, traditions, cultures and aspirations of Aboriginal people.