Bathurst Saleyards upgrade on track

MEDIA RELEASE – Livestock agents operating at Bathurst Saleyards are looking forward to reviewing detailed design plans for the Bathurst Saleyards upgrade before Christmas and seeing tenders called on the first stage of construction soon to follow, President of the Bathurst Selling Agents Association, Grant Lynch, said today.

‘Council has secured a firm commitment from consultants Maunsell Australia to provide the preliminary detail design plans in the next month.

‘Agent and producer representatives of the Saleyards Committee will have an opportunity to review and comment upon the detailed plans before they are finalised early in the New Year’, said Mr Lynch.

Mayor of Bathurst Regional Council and Chair of the Council’s Saleyards Committee, Cr Norm Mann, said that much has been happening on the project behind the scenes.

‘Plans for the new site entrance from Vale Road have been reviewed with the RTA, and a crucial geotechnical survey has been recently completed, together with further fine tuning of the innovative layout for the new cattle yards,’ Cr Mann said.

‘Following on from its successes with the $24m upgrade of the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit, Council’s Engineering Services Department is gearing up to take on the project management of the construction of the Saleyards Upgrade.

‘Given the number of large infrastructure projects Council is managing at the present ? the Upfold Street levee, the Aquatic Centre, and the Bathurst Saleyards upgrade ? we have set up a dedicated team to manage the Saleyards construction’, he added.

Cr Mann said it is expected that the first stage of the Bathurst Saleyards upgrade likely to be well under way by the middle of the year.