Holroyd Council The area formerly known as the City of Holroyd was first proclaimed in July 1872 as the "Municipal District of Prospect and Sherwood", which became the "Municipality of Prospect and Sherwood" from 1906 and on 11 January 1927 it was renamed the "Municipality of Holroyd" after
Arthur Holroyd, the first mayor. From 1 January 1991, city status was granted, becoming the City of Holroyd. Originally located at the Council Chambers in Merrylands West from 1915, the administrative centre of Holroyd was located in the suburb of
Merrylands from 1962.
Auburn Council To the east of Holroyd, the City of Auburn was first proclaimed on 19 February 1892 as the "Borough of Auburn" and became the "Municipality of Auburn" in 1906. On 20 June 1906, the hitherto unincorporated area around
Silverwater and
Newington was combined into the Municipality of Auburn. The eastern section of Auburn was originally proclaimed as the
Borough of Rookwood on 8 December 1891 and in 1913 Rookwood was renamed "
Lidcombe", a
portmanteau of the names of the two previous mayors, in an attempt to distance the municipality from the
necropolis. On 1 January 1949, with the passing of the
Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, the Municipalities of Auburn and Lidcombe were amalgamated to form the new "Municipality of Auburn". In 1993 Auburn Municipal Council became "Auburn Council" and was granted city status in 2008, becoming the "Auburn City Council".
Woodville Ward The area known as the Woodville Ward of the
City of Parramatta until the amalgamations in May 2016, was first incorporated as the "
Borough of Granville" on 20 January 1885, which became the "Municipality of Granville" from 1906, and met in the Granville Town Hall when it was completed in 1888. On 1 January 1949, with the passing of the
Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, the municipalities of Granville, Dundas, Ermington and Rydalmere, and Parramatta were amalgamated to form the new "City of Parramatta". Granville municipality became the "Granville Ward" and the council meetings of the new Parramatta City were held at the Granville Town Hall from 1949 until the new administration centre was opened in Parramatta in 1958. In 1995 a reorganization of Parramatta's wards resulted in Granville Ward being renamed "Woodville Ward" after Woodville Road while the former Granville Municipality suburbs of
Harris Park,
Rosehill,
Telopea, and northern sections of Granville and
Clyde, were moved into the Elizabeth Macarthur Ward. The second proposed a merger of parts of Parramatta, Auburn,
The Hills,
Hornsby, and Holroyd to form a new council with an area of and support a population of approximately 215,725. On 12 May 2016, Cumberland Council was proclaimed as a new local government area, combining parts of Auburn City Council (south of the
M4 Western Motorway), the Woodville Ward of the Parramatta City Council, and the majority of the Holroyd City Council. The remainder of the Auburn City Council area north of the M4 Western Motorway (including parts of the Sydney Olympic Park) and a small section of Holroyd was merged into the reconstituted
City of Parramatta Council. Subsequent Council meetings alternated between the Merrylands Administration Building and Auburn Civic Centre, until December 2016 when May decided that the Auburn council chambers would be taken over by the Auburn Library, and all council meetings from then to be held at Merrylands. After undertaking a significant amount of work to rationalize council services and staff, noting that "Auburn had issues with flagrant rezoning, and Holroyd was over-promising and underdelivering, living in a financial fantasy with many of its projects", May's term as Administrator came to an end in September 2017, with the election of the first council.
"City" trading name On 18 December 2019, the mayor
Steve Christou presented a mayoral minute to Council recommending that Cumberland Council begin trading as "Cumberland City Council", by changing the council's trading name and business registration. The motion was passed 7–7 with the casting vote of the mayor, and the name change to "Cumberland City Council" was implemented from January 2020. However, this did not legally confer
city status on the council as it had merely changed the trading name of the council, the legal name as proclaimed in 2016 remains "Cumberland Council", which can only be changed by official proclamation of the
Governor in the
NSW Government Gazette under section 206 of the
Local Government Act 1993. On 6 September 2023, the Council voted unanimously to write to the Minister for Local Government, requesting that the Council area be formally proclaimed as "Cumberland City" under section 206 of the
Local Government Act, and the Council be renamed "Cumberland City Council" under section 207 of the Act. == Heritage listings ==