The details for this event are now available, hope many Easties and allies will get along to help support the beautiful Ballarat East Gardens. The event is to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Amalgamation of Ballarat East Council and Ballarat Council. Tuesday May 25th, 4.15pm-7.30pm, Barkly Square (25-39 Barkly Street Ballarat East) TOURS: between […]
So I’m guessing quite a few of us pick up rubbish on our walks? Little bits here and there, goes a long way if we are all doing it. However rubbish regularly gets dumped in such large amounts a walker couldn’t possibly. I report these dumps using an app called Snap Send Solve. Its great […]
Hi BE Net, It has been a long time since I have contacted you regarding the gardens. We haven’t gone away. Covid stopped us a little re meetings etc. However, I am pleased to say that we are going to have a photo display of the gardens , Gardens tour plus a couple of talks […]
So Far… you’ll remember we were looking for particular places http://ballarateast.online/imagine-update/ We have the following info coming in from the community about sites the City of Ballarat are trying to locate for the Imagine Ballarat East Project. Thanks to everyone who contributed both here at BE Net and at our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ballarateast.net/ Ballarat East Train Station […]
Dear BE Net, The drawing workshops have been going well and have been a good way to draw people to the park (no pun intended, but it is a bit funny). Several people who live close by have commented that they did not go to the park much, but after spending an hour or so there […]
Maya Dougherty, Strategic Planner at the City of Ballarat, who is facilitating the Imagine Ballarat East project has been working hard to synthesise the comments, feedback and issues being raised by the Ballarat East Community. Go Easties! She is trying to locate the following sites that have been mentioned in the survey: Ballarat East Train […]
The Bill to establish the “Canadian Regional Park” passed the upper house of the Victorian Parliament at 9.50pm on Thursday night March 24th 2016. The Park now exists, the boundaries have been secured and Parks Victoria will now be responsible for the future management of the Forest and ex plantation areas. It is expected that […]
Art Project for Pennyweight Park. The City of Ballarat is creating a new public art project and we need the help of the community of Ballarat East to help realise it. Stone sculptor, Joe Pratt has been commissioned to carve designs into 20 bluestone boulders sited at Pennyweight Park during April and May. Artist Forest […]
As part of the Imagine Ballarat East consultation with the community, a request went out for community members to take a tour of ‘their’ Ballarat East. I took up the offer, and here are some places I visited. You can take the folks on a tour too by contacting the Deakin researchers kristal.buckley@deakin.edu.au Kicked off the […]
We put our questions to council officers about the City of Ballarat Exceptional Tree Register. Thanks to David Grant, Vegetation Planning and Management Officer who showed up and gave us these answers… Hello BE Net, The project (Exceptional Tree Register) is one of my main tasks currently along with the urban forest strategy work. We have […]