The City of Greater Bendigo seeks community involvement to help inform the preparation of a post-war era heritage background study.
The study, known as a Post-War Thematic Environmental History, will primarily focus on the history of development in Greater Bendigo from 1945-1980.
It will consider post-war development that includes commercial buildings and precincts, industrial buildings, residential developments, as well as a range of public buildings and gardens.
Strategic Planning Manager Anthony Petherbridge said the public engagement project was an important first step towards protecting more heritage places from the post-1945 era in Greater Bendigo.
“Several post-war sites have come under threat in recent years due to a combination of development pressures and a lack of background and heritage information about the places,” Mr Petherbridge said.
“The Heritage Overlay has already been applied on some individual post-war places, including 31 Bayne Street in North Bendigo.
“Another example is the Alistair Knox-designed mud-brick house in Strathdale from the 1970s, Nanga Gnulle, which had a heritage overlay applied after a concerted public campaign.
“The new study will complement the Greater Bendigo Thematic Environmental History from 2013, which provided a detailed overview of the history of Greater Bendigo but was largely silent on post-war heritage.
“This proposed background study will help us to understand how and why Greater Bendigo has developed since 1945, and how that fits within Victoria’s heritage themes.”
