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Published on 16 June 2025
Biosecurity and weeds management for the Armidale Regional Local Government area now has a new home at Team ARC after the official proclamation to dissolve the New England County Council known as the New England Weeds Authority (NEWA), occurred on the 4 June 2025.
The dissolution marks a significant restructuring of biosecurity and weeds management across the New England as individual councils take that responsibility on.
Armidale mayor Sam Coupland said landowners won’t see much change from the regular services they already know and use, that the former NEWA provided.
“Five of the existing staff have moved across to Team ARC and I have full confidence that the transition won’t impact the quality of services we provide in managing weeds within our LGA,” said mayor Coupland.
“In-fact - I am sure that the dissolution of NEWA will provide better value for money for council and a higher degree of governance and financial accountability.”
A division of NEWA’s assets is underway amongst the former member councils as is the transition of records and IT integration with council’s processes.
From today, Monday 16 June contact for services will be through Armidale Regional Council’s call centre on 1300 136 833 or you can call one of our biosecurity or weeds officers directly. The Armidale team will still be located within the existing NEWA office in Rusden Street, Armidale and the old NEWA phone number and email contact points will still be active with prompts to your local council service.