11 Facts About Waverley Council

Waverley Council is a Local government area in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Waverley Council is bounded by the Tasman Sea to the east, the Municipality of Woollahra to the north, and the City of Randwick in the south and west.

The administrative centre of Waverley Council is located on Bondi Road in Bondi Junction in the Council Chambers on the corner of Waverley Park.

One of the earliest meetings of local residents formed to call for a "Municipality of Waverley Council" was held at the Tea Gardens Hotel on Bronte Road on 20 December 1858.

On 6 October 1944, the recommendation of a 1941 NSW Local Government Department Commission of Inquiry removing the Mill Hill area from the Municipality of Randwick and include it in the Waverley Council Municipality was proclaimed in the Government Gazette.

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In December 1860 the Waverley Council accepted an offer from Francis O'Brien to donate a site for a Waverley Council Chambers in Bondi Road.

The foundation stone was laid in 1861, and a first meeting of Waverley Council was held there on 21 November 1861, the first Waverley Council building erected by any municipality under the Municipalities Act of 1858.

Woollahra Waverley Council instigated legal action claiming that there was procedural unfairness and that a KPMG report at the centre of merger proposals had been "misleading".

Proportion of residents in Waverley Council who stated their ancestry was Jewish was three times the New South Wales and national averages.

Waverley Council is composed of twelve Councillors elected proportionally from the four separate wards, each electing three Councillors.

Waverley Council area has a number of heritage-listed items and conservation areas, including those listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register:.