Latest update on the YambaPrecinctCommunity

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. Flexible confguration of up to eight meeting spaces will be able to cater to a wide range of small and large user groups as well as a new library twice the size of the current facility.

The centre will be closed from 30 June 2023. Current hirers have been accommodated at Wooli Street Hall if appropriate, or alternate venues found.

Clarence Valley Council plans to award the contract to a successful tender at the Ordinary Council

Meeting on 25 July. Site handover will take place in early August for the contractor to start demolition works and construction of a new public carpark behind the TAFE.

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