Archive for the ‘Character of the East’ Category

Jun 16
2014

Exceptional Trees from Gladys

It is SO GREAT when we get emails with information to share. Gladys was been wandering the east looking for trees to add to the Register of Exceptional Trees. We want a heap in from the East. First submissions due by the end of this month. Click here for more info: http://ballarateast.online/topics/resources/exceptional-tree-register/ And the details: All […]

Jun 6
2014

A Reprieve for Poverty Point Tree

Love a great good news story. Here is the latest on the Poverty Point Tree. For the back story click here. Thank you to everyone who took the time to make a comment on the post, contacted Edith to give support and those who wrote to council about it. Its so great when we work […]

May 29
2014

MADE your day

There are some great events on at MADE at the moment. Make sure you support this great museum, one of the very few venues and exhibition spaces in Ballarat East. They are doing something new, lets help to make it fabulous. http://www.made.org/whatson/events Love Dr Blake? Don’t we all? The show is on until June 9th. […]

May 24
2014

Exceptional Tree Register

You have already heard about this great initiative, right here. This is our chance to tie a yellow ribbon around each of our trees… The forms are really very simple. Please take some time to help protect the very thing that makes our area so beautiful. The trees. Just to make it easy for you […]

May 24
2014

Developer Discretion #2

And the hits keep coming on this theme… This development in York Street is called ‘New York’, I kid you not. What are developers thinking exactly? That Ballarat East has the services, population and infrastructure of New York, which is laughable. They go further ‘Upper East Side Living’. No sir, we are proudly Ballarat East! […]

May 17
2014

Developer Discretion #1

This week I heard the term ‘developer discretion’ a lot of times. Mainly it was used by developers in an attempt to justify the reduction of a minimum 800m2 lot size in the new Neighbourhood Residential Zone. They argued that such a minimum ties their hands in doing something interesting and responsive on blocks. There […]

May 17
2014

The Exceptional Tree Register

A great initiative from the City of Ballarat. The Exceptional Tree Register. I encourage all Easties to have a look around you and if you see an exceptional tree (and i know you will) please ensure you have it added to the register. http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/sh/exceptional-tree-register.aspx Here are some I saw on my walk today… Ballarat has […]

May 10
2014

Happy Mothers in the East…

I know… any angle right? Lets celebrate those women who mean so much to us. There is so much going on in town with the Ballarat Heritage Weekend, don’t forget that our fabulous MADE provides such an important historical connection, both to the mid 19th century AND before and after… democracy has no time limit… […]

May 8
2014

Poverty Point Tree

It seems people are lining up, literally, to help save this significant tree at Poverty Point. This significant tree is 5.5 metres (18ft) around – wow! It’s the big gum in the distance, directly above the new plantings. Read a resident’s letter about whats happening here! http://ballarateast.online/a-tree-at-poverty-point/

May 5
2014

A tree at Poverty Point

there’s a tree at risk of removal in the Poverty Point reserve…. we know because you told us! “Dear BE Net, This is by way of a distress signal from Poverty Point – it was part of the old Ballarat East, so please include this story! A few years ago a developer came and built […]

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