Major project delays Prior to floods Council was in the middle of a $66M capital works program. These works are predominately funded by State or Federal Grant programs or stimulus funding from previous disasters or COVID. Council has been liaising with the relevant grant funding bodies and reviewing these projects to revise delivery timeframes resulting from flood impacts. No major projects have been cancelled, so work will continue to deliver major projects including: • Lismore Employment Lands (Oliver Ave link)
• Northern Rivers Rail Trail
• Oakes and Crozier Oval upgrades
• Lismore Regional Airport upgrades
• Nimbin Rainbow Road Walking Track
• CBD footpath replacement
Road, bridge, water and sewer projects that were disrupted are now being completed, and delayed works will be re-scheduled. Council events that were to be held in the first half of 2022 will be postponed. This includes scheduled events to be held out of the Art Gallery, Quad, Lismore Library and Lismore Memorial Baths. The Lismore Masters Games will also be postponed.
Other projects that will continue: • A ffordable Housing developments at Bristol Circuit and Cynthia Wilson Drive.
• Heritage Park shadesail
• Clyde Campbell Solar car park
• Albert Park (pictured below)
• Lismore Laneways Revitalisation
Albert Park
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Flood Response April 2022
• Pedestrian spine from City Hall to the river • Lismore Walking Trails
