facility to meet growing population demands

Yamba will soon be home to a modern, spacious cultural and educational hub with the construction of the Yamba Community Precinct.

The new building will be located on the site of the existing Treelands Drive Community Centre, and designed to create a precinct integrated with the TAFE NSW Connect Learning Centre and Yamba Community Health.

It will include a new art space, dedicated youth space, outdoor communal areas and additional public parking with acoustic fencing. Flexible configuration of up to eight meeting spaces will be able to cater to a wide range of small and large user groups.

It will also feature a new library twice the size of the current facility. The existing library at 45 Wooli Street has been identified as undersized to adequately serve the needs of the growing population of Yamba.

PICTURED: Artist impressions of the Yamba Community Centre Precinct which has a 400m2 library incorporated into the design, including the mangrove reading space, shown left.

The development application for demolition and reconstruction was assessed and approved by the Northern Rivers Regional Planning Panel in March. Construction is due to start in September 2023.

The project is majority funded by a $11,087,000 grant under the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery (BLER) program co-funded by the NSW and Federal governments.