Council has adopted the Managed Growth Strategy and Housing and Neighbourhood Character Strategy.

The City will now seek authorisation from the Minister for Planning to progress a planning scheme amendment to implement the zone and overlay changes. This would be subject to a separate public exhibition process.

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The City of Greater Bendigo is Victoria's second largest regional municipality. It will need to accommodate around 87,000 new residents by 2056.

To make sure we can accommodate this growth, the City has prepared a Managed Growth Strategy which sets out a framework for how a long term supply of housing will be delivered and a Housing and Neighbourhood Character Strategy which provides detail about where the growth should be accommodated.

We developed these strategies based on extensive consultation through the Imagine Greater Bendigo project in 2021 and the Managed Growth Issues and Opportunities Paper in 2022. We worked with key agencies in 2023. Consultation on the strategies was open until July 12, 2024.

This search will show all properties considered through the draft Housing and Neighbourhood Character Strategy and Neighbourhood Character Overlay and Significant Landscape Overlay review.

It does not include the following areas:

• Properties within the Bendigo City Centre which will be the subject of a separate upcoming planning scheme amendment
• Huntly as this area will be considered through the Structure Planning process currently underway
• Marong as planning scheme controls are being applied through Amendment C263gben to implement the Marong Township Structure Plan
• Rural areas or rural townships outside of Axedale, Heathcote and Elmore. The City has recently commenced a Rural Areas Strategy which will consider these areas