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Council proposed the name ‘Stream Hill’ to the NSW Geographical Names Board (GNB) after community consultation and Councillor endorsement. The GNB is responsible for assigning place names in NSW and must endorse the name before seeking approval from State Government.

The name was recommended by a Kembla Grange resident as part of a community input process.

These are the steps we followed to decide on the suburb name:

  1. Council asked the Dapto / West Dapto community to suggest names in 2020.
  2. We created working groups to help guide and support this process.
  3. The suggested names were collated, reviewed and a shortlist was created from the names that most closely aligned with the GNB’s guidelines and were also locally significant.
  4. The GNB endorsed the name in August 2022 and the Minister approved it in December 2022.

We couldn’t use names like Kembla Grange Estate as that is too similar to Kembla Grange. Similarly, we weren’t able to add suffixes or prefixes like West Kembla Grange or Kembla Grange Heights.