Northern Beaches Council has given the green light for the Warriewood Valley Community Centre to proceed to the construction phase.

Council will soon finalise negotiations with the contractor Belmadar Pty Ltd with construction anticipated to commence on site in April next year and a completion date of August 2025.

The new multi-use community centre will be built on the existing site of the Nelson Heather Centre.  

The centre will be an attractive, modern, and resilient building with the capacity to switch to an Emergency and Recovery Centre during a period of community crisis.

Mayor Sue Heins said although it has been some time coming, the new vibrant community centre will be well worth the wait.

“It will have something for everyone with halls for recreational activities, meeting rooms, a community lounge room, large covered outdoor spaces which overlook landscaped gardens, showers and kitchen facilities. In short, a great community centre.”

The building will have a strong emphasis on sustainability and resilience through the use of “mass timber construction”, a ventilation system which has filtration capabilities to cater for bushfire and pollen events, as well as other initiatives built into its design to reduce reliance on the power grid.