It pays two sets of rates and has to put in development applications twice. The Winston Hotel’s owners have had enough.
Two feuding councils whose boundary lines divide a popular Sydney pub are at loggerheads over which municipality the venue should sit in, in a years-long fight the hotel’s owner has described as “petty”.
The odd border quirk is one of dozens of seemingly arbitrary council boundaries drawn up across Sydney that can result in landowners being forced to pay two sets of rates, and submit development applications twice – once to each council. Unhappy with the publican’s proposed split, Parramatta Council instead voted to subsume the entire precinct into its own area, causing a tangible loss of income, through rates, to the Hills Shire Council.
“They’re ratepayers, that’s income we rely on to pay for services that they use,” said Hills Shire Council general manager Michael Edgar, whose council made a counter-proposal to divide the land in a similar fashion to that proposed by Thomas. “We think there is an easy solution to solve it.“ would have resolved the issue with no loss of income, no loss of rate base. It was quite simple. What then got exhibited and sent to the government was a lot bigger and that’s what we’re objecting to.
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