Blue Mountains City Council will waive council development application fees for people whose homes have been destroyed by the current bushfires.
Council will also extend its current free green waste service at both Katoomba and Blaxland waste management facilities until Friday, January 31.
Development application fees for people whose homes have been lost or rendered uninhabitable in the current bushfire emergency will be waived, including: pre-lodgement advice; development application fees; tree removal fees; Roads Act applications fees; pool inspection fees; relief on-site sewage systems and developer contributions.
Council will also ask the NSW Government to refund state development fees to support the community's rebuilding process.
Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill said council has been looking at ways to support the community since the fires began.
"Our aim is to support impacted communities and to make the journey through recovery as supportive and easy as possible. No recovery process is perfect, but we will not stop trying to do our best," he said.
"We've introduced extra green bin services, extra free chipping services and made the waste management facilities available for free to residents clearing green waste off their blocks.
"We've now extended that free service at our waste management facilities until the end of January and council is paying the state government's waste levy on behalf of our community because we want to make this as easy as possible.
"Council is also running the local community recovery process, which will ramp up over the coming weeks, and co-ordinating support for those impacted by these fires, directly and indirectly.
"The Blue Mountains Bushfire Mayoral Relief Fund has been relaunched to support those most affected by the bush fires, and we have been present, and remain so, in communities where homes have been lost and damaged.
"We have supported our emergency services wherever we can and are actively participating in the NSW Government's approach to recovery and will advocate for our community in that process," said the mayor.
