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Planning for the future of Ballarat’s sporting facilities

The City of Ballarat is preparing for the future of sporting facilities by outlining a 15-year plan to ensure the municipality’s recreation infrastructure keeps up with forecasted population growth.The Draft Recreation Infrastructure Plan 2024-2039 is now open for public exhibition, having been endorsed by Ballarat City Council at its June Meeting on Wednesday night.The plan is designed to guide future planning and investment in sport and recreat...

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Ballarat pedalling into the second year of Biketober

This October, Biketober is coming back to Ballarat, for another month of fun with a free and friendly biking challenge for the entire community to participate in. Last year 177 people from Ballarat joined the challenge, which included 49 new riders. Ballarat totalled 120,837 kilometres over 4,910 rides which reduced carbon emissions in our city by 1,073 kilograms. Biketober is the state’s biggest bike challenge. Riders who hop on thei...

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Combatting the impacts of vaping in Ballarat and beyond

The City of Ballarat is partnering with several local organisations, schools and sporting clubs to implement a program designed to empower young people to say ‘no’ to vaping.Funded by health promotion foundation VicHealth, the Central Highlands Vaping Prevention Project is designed to prevent the uptake of vaping among young people aged 10-25 in the region. The program will target several key groups, encouraging authentic, peer-to-peer conv...

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Planning for the future of sport and recreation in Ballarat

City of Ballarat Councillors adopted the Recreational Infrastructure Plan and Prince of Wales Park Master Plan at the August Council Meeting. The Recreation Infrastructure Plan will guide planning and decision making relating to sport and recreation to meet the needs of the community over the next 15 years. The Prince of Wales Park Master Plan sits under the Recreation Infrastructure Plan and will guide the future direction of the key...

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Ballarat’s frameworks to manage population growth

An important step in planning for the city’s future housing demand has been taken which will help accommodate more than 55,000 new residents that will call Ballarat home in the coming years. Ballarat City Council received a report on the final Housing Strategy and Growth Areas Framework Plan at its August Planning meeting. Councillors discussed the reports and resolved to adopt the strategy and framework plan. As a planning ...

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The final stages of Ballarat’s Housing Strategy

The final stages of developing the draft Ballarat Housing Strategy have been reached, with the document now available for the community’s review. Following extensive consultation in 2023, the City of Ballarat has worked through submissions from the community, developers, landowners and State Government to develop the Ballarat Housing Strategy. City of Ballarat Mayor, Cr Des Hudson commended the detailed strategic planning work that ha...

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Ballarat embraces soft plastics recycling

More than 2,700 households are already diverting ‘scrunchable’ soft plastics from landfill, and recycling them, after the recent launch of the City of Ballarat’s new kerbside collection pilot program.The 12-month kerbside soft plastics pilot enables residents to recycle their soft plastics in a City of Ballarat-supplied orange bag that can now be placed in residents’ yellow-lid recycling bin.The soft plastics that residents recycle will be includ...

Winners of the 2023 Ballarat Seniors Awards with City of Ballarat Mayor, Cr Des Hudson and City of Ballarat Councillor, Cr Belinda Coates.

Nominations open for Ballarat Seniors Awards

The City of Ballarat is calling on all residents to thank an inspirational older person in their lives with a nomination for the 2024 Ballarat Seniors Awards. The awards are the City of Ballarat’s way of acknowledging residents 60 years and older who give their time and efforts back to the Ballarat community. For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents, eligibility commences from 50 years or older.This year there ar...

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New City of Ballarat Council declared

The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) finalised the vote count this afternoon and declared the nine councillors-elect who will form the City of Ballarat Council. The City of Ballarat welcomes the following councillors-elect who will represent the City of Ballarat for the 2024-2028 term: Alfredton Ward: Damon SaundersBrown Hill Ward: Ted Lapkin Buninyong Ward: &...

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Challenging gender-based violence in Ballarat

The Ballarat community will come together over the next 16 days to take a stand against gender-based violence. The City of Ballarat is joining with member organisations of the Communities of Respect and Equality Alliance (CoRE) and the Central Highlands Integrated Family Violence Committee (CHIFVC) to host several events throughout the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign. CoRE is a partnership of o...