AS residents affected by the New Lambton landslip face the likelihood that recovery will take another year, Newcastle councillors have voted to extend a lifeline.
Last week, Ward 3 councillors independent Mark Brooker, Greens' Siobhan Isherwood and and Labor's Peta Winney-Baartz put forward a motion to continue rate relief to those families who for the last year have been unable to return home.
