Community & places · Inner West Council
Camdenville Park full-bin reports prompt cleaning, vermin and wetlands action
Inner West Council has ordered an extra bin near the St Peters park’s barbecue and playground, more frequent servicing and cleaning, and urgent drainage work at Peter Bulger Wetlands, according to unconfirmed minutes.
Reporting from draft minutes. Recorded wording may change when confirmed. How this article was prepared
Camdenville Park users and nearby St Peters residents are to receive more frequent bin servicing and park cleaning after reports that a bin near the barbecue and playground regularly reaches capacity by Friday evenings and is not emptied until early the following week.
According to unconfirmed minutes, Inner West Council’s 22 September resolution also calls for an additional public bin to be installed as soon as practicable. The work is to be funded from existing park maintenance budgets. Council staff are to investigate reports of increased vermin activity between the park and neighbouring homes, with adjustments to waste collection or vermin monitoring and mitigation if needed.
At Peter Bulger Wetlands, the resolution directs an urgent assessment and repair of drainage in response to reports of odour and algae growth. Council is also to work with Transport for NSW to install a gross pollutant trap to minimise litter flowing into the basin. The minutes do not establish that either the drainage repairs or pollutant trap has been completed.
Council is to review parking on streets bordering the park and install signs encouraging cyclists to use the roadway or paths through the park rather than the narrow footpath in front of May Street residences. It must also release to local residents the outcomes of a noise study previously undertaken by WestConnex.
A report due at the November 2026 Council meeting is to outline proposed Stage 2 wetlands works, indicative timelines, possible community consultation and actions addressing the maintenance issues. The resolution gives no calendar delivery date for the bin, cleaning changes, drainage work or noise-study outcomes release.
What deserves a closer look
The unconfirmed minutes record directions to undertake or pursue the work, not completion of the bin installation, drainage repairs, pollutant trap or noise-study outcomes release.
The November report is the specified checkpoint for proposed Stage 2 wetlands works and related maintenance actions, not a construction commencement date.
Questions for follow-up reporting
When will the additional bin be installed and the increased cleaning and servicing schedule begin?
What drainage repairs are proposed at Peter Bulger Wetlands, and what itemised costs and delivery timeline will apply?
When will the WestConnex noise-study outcomes be released to local residents?
What costs and approvals would be required to install the gross pollutant trap with Transport for NSW?
What happens next
Investigate vermin reports and adjust waste collection or monitoring and mitigation as necessary.
Urgently assess and fix drainage at the Peter Bulger Wetlands.
Work with Transport for NSW to install a gross pollutant trap to minimise litter entering the basin.
Review parking arrangements on streets bordering the park.
Install additional signage encouraging cyclists to use the roadway or park pathways rather than the narrow footpath in front of May Street residences.
Release the outcomes of the previously undertaken WestConnex noise study to local residents.
Check the record
These passages were matched to the source text. Read them in context in the original minutes.
The motion carried with no votes against and Cr Raciti absent.
Motion Carried For Motion: Crs Antoniou, Atkins, Barlow, Blake, Byrne, Carlisle, Clay, D'Arienzo, Fergusson, Howard, Macri, Scott, Smith and Tastan Against Motion: Nil Absent: Cr Raciti Council Meeting 22 September 2026 12 C0926(3) Item 49 Notice of Motion: Retention of temporary Metro cycling routes Motion: (Howard/Atkins) That Council: 1.
Item 48, vote following point 8 and before the Item 49 heading
Open original minutes ↗The quoted text calls for an additional public bin near the BBQ and playground, more frequent bin servicing and park cleaning, and investigation of vermin reports, funded from existing park maintenance budgets.
3. Increases maintenance and cleaning at Camdenville Park, including but not limited to the following, with funding drawn from existing park maintenance budgets: a) Install an additional public bin in the vicinity of the BBQ and playground as soon as practicable, and increase the frequency of services to empty bins and clean the park, noting reports that the bin is regularly at capacity by Friday evenings and not attended to until early the following week; b) Investigate reports of increased vermin activity in the area between the park and neighbouring residential homes and make necessary adjustments to waste collection or vermin monitoring and mitigation to address the issue.
Item 48, points 3(a) and 3(b)
Open original minutes ↗The quoted text calls for urgent drainage assessment and repair at Peter Bulger Wetlands and work with Transport for NSW to install a gross pollutant trap.
c) Urgently assess and fix drainage at the Peter Bulger Wetlands to address reports of odour and algae growth and work with Transport for NSW to install a gross pollutant trap to minimise litter flowing into the basin;
Item 48, point 3(c)
Open original minutes ↗The quoted text calls for release to local residents of the WestConnex noise-study outcomes and a report to the November 2026 Council meeting on proposed Stage 2 wetlands works, indicative timelines, any proposed community consultation and maintenance actions.
7. Release to local residents the outcomes of the noise study previously undertaken by WestConnex. 8. Provides a report to the November 2026 Council meeting outlining the proposed works for Stage 2 of the Peter Bulger Wetlands, as well as indicative timelines and other relevant information including any proposed community consultation, and include in the report actions to address the maintenance issues identified above.
Item 48, points 7 and 8
Open original minutes ↗The quoted text calls for a parking review on streets bordering the park and additional signage encouraging cyclists to use the roadway or park pathways rather than the narrow footpath in front of May Street residences.
4. Reviews the existing parking arrangements on the streets bordering the park to ensure they remain fit for purpose and balance the needs of park and oval users with those of local residents. 5. Installs additional signage to encourage cyclists to use the roadway or pathways through the park, rather than the narrow footpath in front of residences on May Street. 6. Consider opportunities to improve community awareness of the historic brickworks at the site.
Item 48, points 4 and 5
Open original minutes ↗The record labels the minutes of the Ordinary Council meeting held on 22 September 2026 as unconfirmed.
Meeting closed at 9:58 pm. PUBLIC SPEAKERS: Item # Speaker Suburb Item 2: Sophia Kusznirczuk Richard James Adamson Sydney St Peters Item 3: David Rollinson Helen Hughes Summer Hill Summer Hill Item 13: Rick Wayde Glenn Scrimgeour Jean Kouriel Croydon Ashfield Marrickville Item 16: Diane Sargeant Balmain Item 41: Kathryn Allan Sydney Item 54: Judy Doyle Rozelle Item 55: Dinah Berlin Sharon Scott Balmain Balmain Unconfirmed Minutes from the Ordinary Council Meeting held on 22 September 2026.
Closing label following the public speakers list
Open original minutes ↗Source record
Inner West Council, unconfirmed minutes of the Ordinary Council meeting held on 22 September 2026. This article is based only on the supplied minutes.
Key facts from the minutes
- Council resolved to install an additional public bin near Camdenville Park’s barbecue and playground facilities as soon as practicable.
- Bin servicing and park cleaning are to become more frequent, funded from existing park maintenance budgets.
- Council directed an urgent assessment and repair of drainage at the Peter Bulger Wetlands and cooperation with Transport for NSW to install a gross pollutant trap.
- A report on proposed Stage 2 wetlands works, indicative timelines and any proposed consultation is due to the November 2026 Council meeting.
- Council resolved to release the outcomes of a previously undertaken WestConnex noise study to local residents.
Why it matters
- The resolution responds to full-bin, vermin, odour, algae and litter concerns around Camdenville Park and Peter Bulger Wetlands. It directs follow-up work and further reporting but does not establish that the work has been completed.