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The City of Ballarat is calling for specific user groups to register to join a collaborative design workshop that will help shape the development of the Open Space Strategy.  The community’s voice will play a pivotal role in the new strategy that will influence how open space is improved and managed into the future.From the initial round of engagement that ran from November 2023 until January 2024, the consultation received more than 900 res...

The Brown Hill Splash Park Precinct is a step closer to reality following the release of new concept designs.In a major milestone towards completion of the new splash park, the concepts feature an adventure zone, an exploration zone, and a toddler development and discovery zone.The park would have a mixture of water play features ranging from a large dumping bucket and water cannons to more gentle and predictable water effects.A City of Ballarat ...

The flagship Ballarat Heritage Festival launches this weekend and will run through to 26 May 2024.  The uniquely Ballarat event provides a great opportunity for us to showcase our complex and rich history each year.  Ballarat Heritage Festival is a fast-growing 10-day event featuring a program that offers authentic and contemporary heritage products – strengthening Ballarat’s position as a leading heritage destination in Regional Austra...

Community Consultation Closes  Macarthur Street streetscape improvements 27 May 2024 Waste Services for Ballarat Businesses 27 May 2024 Latest instalment of Neighbourhood Parks Improvement Program  31 May 2024 Ballarat Growth Areas Framework Plan 31 May 2024 Open Space Strategy 31 May 2024 Head to mysay.ballarat.vic.gov.au to find out more. Tender No Tender Descriptio...

Ballarat’s Eureka Stockade Gardens are nationally significant, considered to be the site of the 1854 Eureka Stockade where the rebellion took place and of course the home to the original Eureka Flag.  The City of Ballarat is now undertaking a Conservation Management Plan of the gardens to better understand the demands of the site, to best manage its heritage values and provide direction on potential future use, change and development.  ...

If you happened to see some giant faces brilliantly beamed onto Sturt Streets trees on Wednesday night, your eyes weren’t deceiving you.As a teaser to the upcoming Ballarat Heritage Festival, one of the leading event highlights was given a test run on Wednesday night before the festival officially gets underway.Monuments, by Australian artist Craig Walsh, is a free outdoor video installation that projects large human faces onto trees to challenge...

The City of Ballarat has launched a campaign calling for other organisations, businesses, clubs and groups to join with them to address gender-based violence.With a number of high-profile cases of gender-based violence occurring in Ballarat this year, the community is rightfully looking for ways to address this growing issue. About 16 per cent of all women allegedly killed in Australia this year, have died in the Ballarat region.The campaign is a...

The City of Ballarat is seeking public feedback on how it can help address housing issues within the municipality.With housing becoming a growing area of concern throughout Australia, the City of Ballarat is launching its own Draft Social and Affordable Housing Action Plan.Now open for public consultation, the document outlines the city’s plan to contribute to social and affordable housing outcomes, with a focus on facilitation and advocacy to ad...

There are countless young people in Ballarat that make an incredible contribution to the city and the time is now for them to have their moment in the spotlight.Nominations have now opened for the City of Ballarat 2024 Youth Awards and people are being encouraged to think about someone they know who is worthy of an accolade.Since 2005, the City of Ballarat Youth Awards have recognised the outstanding contributions that young people make to the Ba...

This week we endorsed the City of Ballarat’s Budget 2024/25, which once again represents a commitment to delivering on our aspirations outlined in the Council Plan 2021-2025 – now in its final year.  The Council Plan, which was adopted by Ballarat City Council in August 2021, sets the vision, priorities, and outcomes for Council’s four-year term, and each year the annual budget is constructed to provide the funds and resources to put this pl...