Sound resonates with Noela
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.”
Rosemary Sorensen | Bendigo Weekly | 06-Jan-2012
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CAPTURING AN EXPERIENCE: Noela Stratford with her artworks. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
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After a decade living back in Bendigo, Noela Stratford is still waiting for that moment when the landscape takes hold of her and won’t let go.
“For my work, I have to experience a place with real impact, something that makes me go ‘wow’,” the artist says.
She has tried to find that wow factor on Mt Alexander, but so far, the emotional hit has not happened.
Dr Stratford’s new show, which opens tomorrow at the 2012 La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in View Street, is the result of a trip to New Zealand.
She created the big charcoal drawings following a trip to the dramatic Milford Sound, where crashing waterfalls and misty precipitous mountains evoked for her the emotional power of the German romantic expressionists she most admires.
“It’s taken me a long time to admit it, but I am a romantic,” Dr Stratford says.
“I am interested in the subjectivity of landscape, in not just how something looks, not just a mirroring, but what you experience from seeing it.
“I just loved Milford Sound, always wanted to see it, it hasn’t been messed with.
“It was an experience I wanted to capture.”
Working in charcoal, Dr Stratford has created sensuously soft, deep black works, through which the dynamic white of sky and water shine out.
Born in Drouin (“a landscape of rock stone – I keep coming back to it”, she says), Dr Stratford lived in Bendigo while her children were growing up, then in other parts of Victoria, until returning 11 years ago.
She studied at Deakin, Melbourne and Monash universities, until finally completing her doctorate at Deakin in 1998, with a thesis on the philosophical history of landscape art.
Last year, Ballarat Art Gallery had an exhibition of her drawings which included one of the Milford Sound works, but this is the first time the whole series has gone on show.
In September this year, a new series based on her experience of Cataract Gorge in Tasmania will go on show at the Woodbine gallery in Malmsbury.
She is hoping then, that something in the Goldfields landscape will capture her imagination and lead to a new series.
“It doesn’t need to be dramatic, it can be tranquil,” Dr Stratford says.
“But it has to have impact.”
Contemplating the Sound, drawings by Noela Stratford, is on show at the VAC Access Gallery until January 29.
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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