Finding suitable accommodation for Council, Government and other visitors to small communities is often a challenge in towns with acute housing shortages. Bulman located 340 kilometres north east of Katherine has always had a shortage of visitors’ accommodation and being located at least four or more hours road travel from Katherine has made work travel difficult. This in turn have effected adequate service delivery to the town and surrounding area.
This shortage will be soon alleviated with a completion of stage one of the development of a new visitors accommodation building.
A lot has been cleared at a cost of $18000 which was funded under the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Community Development Fund. Further work amounting $154050 funded through Department of Local Government and Regions Special Purpose Grant is due to begin on a new eight bed visitors accommodation building.
The project is expected to meet the current shortage of short term visitor accommodation and enhance service delivery in the town and reduce some of the fly in fly out travel costs of service providers.
For further details please direct your inquiries to Michael Berto, CEO Roper Gulf Regional Council on 08 8972 9000.
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