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 […]
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 […]
We have just added the following icons of Ballarat East to the Time Capsule of Ballarat. What else is needed to be added? Check it out here: http://timecapsuleballarat.com and add your own places and photos and memories. Ballarat East Town Hall (historic) Ballarat East Town Hall Gardens – under threat The Tammy Fence Arthur Kenny Avenue of […]
If you would like more information on the Imagine Ballarat East project, please go to www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/ImagineBallaratEast. Deakin University is working with the City of Ballarat to understand the wants and needs of the people in Ballarat East. The research is a follow up to the Ballarat Imagine survey that was undertaken in 2013 and which informed […]
Do you wonder what ever happened to the Exceptional Tree Register? http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/sh/trees-and-native-vegetation/exceptional-tree-register.aspx Great idea that got started, however its been closed since June 2014. We have a request into council to get some info on the register, when it will be open again, what trees are on it, how the public responded to it initially […]
Hello Easties, have you missed us? The last 12 months have been very trying for me (Erin) personally, with the loss of both my gorgeous mum and my darling dad. Hence no posts, email troubles and the rise of the facebook page. It hasn’t stopped the over development of the East though! Now seems a […]
Does anyone knows the locations of these 2 poppet heads in the Ballarat East section of this old panorama. The first is a small one NNE of the fire station at about 1-2o’clock? Can you see it? The other is a much larger one like the replica they have at sovereign hill to the very […]