Pets are ruling the roost
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
Anthony Radford | Bendigo Weekly | 09-Sep-2011
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I am merely the staff of her menagerie
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A couple of horses, a few cats and two lambs, but to me it’s a mess of a menagerie
IT is now official.I
I’m animal crackers.
Gone are the peaceful sleep-ins and nights of sleep.
Last week I told the tale of the loss of Harry the tabby cat, and recently I covered the saga of the orphan lambs.
I have no other life bar the demands of the four-legged friends.
It all starts at around 5.30am as the lambs decide it’s time for milk.
Never mind the fact they have been grazing for 24 hours, milk is what they want.
Lamb Chop has discovered a swift 10 kicks to the front door draws my attention and high volume bleating does the rest.
All of the old time farmers say just wean them, but I can’t ignore their expectant faces, the lambs that is, not the farmers.
Walking around the paddock is a nightmare.
I am attacked from all angles by the two of them.
The two paddock-wrecking hay burners, in other words the horses, are minor glitches in my day as I struggle with a hay bale while being attacked by lambs.
It’s the last straw (ha ha).
It’s down to a fine art now when I get home from a hard day at the Weekly.
Get out of the car, dodge the lambs, fill the water troughs on the way in, warm the milk, get the hay for the horses, dodge the lambs, turn the horse water off, grab the milk, feed the lambs. Collapse.
Then it’s time to feed the cats, let some in some out, select the chicken and rice flavour for some and the sea fish and rice for others, make sure there is water in the bath and shower tray because the Birman cat and the new British Shorthair won’t drink from a bowl.
Then I make up the next mixture for the lambs in the morning and stop. Thank goodness, stop.
Then Princess the white long-haired cat chases Winston the new boy around the house, just because she is a bully and feels she can.
She has never been the same since she appeared as Miss January 2011 in the Pets Haven calendar.
She has illusions of grandeur that we can’t shake.
The fact she came from a cat rescue centre as unwanted does not seem to enter into her thought pattern.
She can’t be told.
All of this madness is fully supported by the long-suffering Dr Kendall, who not only brings the new beasts home but actively encourages their precocious behaviour at my cost.
I am merely the staff of her menagerie.
This time of year I have to make up the wood fire so the cats can lounge around and be warm while we head off to work so we can afford to buy more hay, cat food and the like.
Our cats also have heated pads for their days outside. Comfy even in winter.
The lambs’ favourite place is sitting on the verandah on woolly carpet offcuts.
Thankfully, lambs don’t understand the irony of it.
Nick at work points out at least the lambs will taste nice, but no way is that going to happen.
How could we possibly turn Piglet into cutlets, and Lamb Chop into well... lamb chops. No way.
So they live in the lucky land of the Kendalls.
At Animal Crackers Hobby Farm.
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
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