Submissions/Objections can still be forwarded to City of Ballarat for the changes to Tree Protection Areas in Stockade Street. Reference – PLP/2012/946 “I know that Ballarat East residents have been disheartened with the planning of the large development on the corner of Fussell and Stockade Streets and the latest application appears to be too little, […]
Art has an important part to play in connecting people to their environment. Meet Martin Hale a local artist who was inspired by Ballarat East and this website. Martin says “The history excerpt by Weston Bate and the high quality content/design and purpose of the BE Net combined with the recent Canadian Corridor meeting inspired […]
Details of a permit currently being applied for to vary tree protection. This will not be considered by the City Planning Department until March 12th 2013. The “Detailed View ” on the eServices site are not very detailed. APPLICATION NUMBER: PLP/2012/946 DEVELOPER: S Melotte SITE/s: 7, 9 & 17 Stockade Street Ballarat East PROPOSAL: […]
The Canadian Forest was under deep discussion last night as 75 people gathered to learn and share thoughts about 300 hectares of cleared pine and blue gum plantation blocks being handed back to the Victorian government by the East Victoria Plantation company. “Keep it in in public hands!” – was the resounding call of […]
We are so lucky to be living with a forest in our area, its like our own Central Park, and really could be as great, famous and fabulous… If we care enough. We know from the new group Friends of Canadian Corridor that the forest is at a cross-roads for what will happen in the […]
Here in the East we are getting used to fighting proposals for over-development. Here is the latest proposal, the place as it exists now, and how developers see land use from other proposal that we weren’t able to stop… This image is what currently resides at 307 York Street, the beautiful creek, lovely walk, rural […]
Local company Fifteen Trees is on a mission – to raise funds to enable 400 trees to be planted at Kinglake and Marysville. They are using Australian crowd-funding site Pozible to spread the word. The project is called 400trees. While the project now is 70% funded (with 18 days to go), it needs one final […]
This is a letter from local resident John about a huge lovely tree in his back yard that the landlord wants to cut down… why? Hello People, The owner of the property I rent is removing a huge old tree possibly this weekend. I have tried to get people interested in this unnecessary removal both […]
In Ballarat we have so much to learn about sustainable development, we can learn much from the mistakes of other cities. Ingrid writes that Geelong has less than 5% native vegetation left, some reports say 2%. In Ballarat East we have a lot of native vegetation however if developers are given free reign here we […]