Welcome to Inner West

Check out these useful resources
Hand holding cash icon
Make a payment
Parking icon
Get a parking permit
Recycling icon
Waste and recycling
Swimming icon
Aquatic centres
Umbrella icon
Check sporting ground status
Books on shelf icon
Library services
Report with magnifying glass icon
Track a development application
Certificate icon
Get a planning certificate
Information icon
Report an issue

Let us know how we're doing

Share your good or bad experiences or suggest ways we can make our services better.

Learn more

What's On in

Explore upcoming events and activities in your part of the Inner West

View all Inner West events
Olfactophone - A place where the common language is scent
Thu 4 Jun - Sun 21 Jun 2026
Olfactophone - A place where the common language is scent
A fine art exhibition in a new medium: perfume. Come and enlighten the forgotten fifth sense at Airspace Projects Inc.
Accessibility support provided:
Service animals
Grounded + Growing in Country - Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty
Rozelle
Fri 5 Jun - Sun 5 Jul 2026
Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty: Grounded + Growing in Country

Award-winning contemporary Indigenous artist Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty presents a major solo exhibition in Rozelle.

Accessibility support provided:
Service animals
A conspicuously computer-rendered graphic of voluptuous human-like figures, one purple and one green. Neither have facial features and both are situated against inside a 3D room with pink-gridded walls.
Marrickville
Tue 9 Jun - Sun 14 Jun 2026
Turning Heads: Group exhibition
This group exhibition aims to explore the feelings marginalised people encounter when going out in the world and being perceived.
Accessibility support provided:
National Relay Service
View all Inner West events

Your Say Inner West

The community engagement hub where you can get involved in important projects that shape the future of the Inner West.

Have your say on projects now

Projects open for comments

Draft Affordable Housing Policy Safer school journeys Inner West Development Control Plan Watercraft Management Policy Help shape Council's E-bike Strategy

What's new

View all Inner West news
A kids' sports team wearing their playing uniforms and standing in front of an amenities building, with adults standing alongside them. One of the adults is wearing a scarf in the same colours as the kids' uniforms, and is cutting a ream of ceremonial tape.
Featured
28 May 2026
Inner West Council News – June 2026

Council has completed its $2.9 million amenities building project at Mackey Park. This includes a modern fit-for-purpose facility for one of the Inner West's most heavily used sporting grounds, as well as improved landscaping, accessible pathways and a pocket park area.

Newsletters
A square block with five different colours arranged in different shapes.
07 June 2026
Vale Professor Richard Scolyer AO
Media Release
Artists impression of the new 50m pool at Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre showing shade structures, seating and swimmers
29 May 2026
Leichhardt pool upgrades set to commence
Media Release
A photo overlooking Leichhardt Oval from the grandstand
22 May 2026
Leichhardt Oval to go out with "One Last Roar"
Media Release
Two people in formal attire in front of a background reading 'Inner West'. One person is presenting an award in front of them.
20 May 2026
Antony Green awarded Inner West Citizen of the Year
Media Release
View all Inner West news

A Fairer Future for the Inner West

"Our Fairer Future Plan will fix the housing supply crisis in our local community, while preserving what we love about it."

Learn more
Aerial view of spiral artwork on path

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Sydney Basin.

Opening hours

Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) 8:30am to 5pm

Phone

02 9392 5000

Mail

PO Box 14, Petersham NSW 2049

© 2026 Inner West Council