Rural properties are being charged a $50 waste management fee. This will allow them and all Kentish residents to use the Waste Transfer Stations free of charge (there are a few exceptions).
Some hate the fee and some reckon it is great. The idea is to hopefully stem the dumping of rubbish in the bush. For [...]

What can I say………the most perplexing issue before council.
Our engineers want it closed.
I will not support upgrading the road. I would like to close it and provide another access into Lorinna.
River Road would most probably be cheapest. We could undertake the work without any external funding. I think most Kentish residents want the cheapest [...]

The responsibility for running water and sewerage will be taken from council in the next financial year. For some councils water and sewerage are “cash cows” for Kentish sewerage especially is a financial liability. The Sheffield Waste Water Treatment Plant is an expensive and undersized facility that many more thousands of dollars will be [...]

Latrobe Councillors travelled up to Kentish for a get together with us last week. It was really good to have some time together. Kentish and Latrobe had a joint authority in the fairly recent past that didn’t succeed. It let to some bitterness and resentment on both sides.
I will leave it to the Mayor to [...]