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Walk the dog places to exercise your dog. For over 150 years Bendigo Pottery has been famous for creating high quality ceramics. Step back into our golden era and experience one of the maximum unusual boom time buildings in Victoria. Explore the sights of Bendigo aboard a Vintage Talking Tram. See the tunnels of a authentic twentieth century gold mine. Our instinctive heritage includes an amazing reveal of wildflowers each year, BoxIronbark forest that supports a rich array of flora and fauna, and mallet eucalypti of the Whipstick Scrub’. Succeed sections of the Caliban water system and discover historic water races and dissipators, which tranquil supply Bendigo with water. It includes a snapshot of Bendigo's history, with assist and advice on the Council services available to owners of heritage homes, and places you can visit in the city or in the forest to explore the splendid heritage of where you live. This includes numerous bin requests such as missed bins, footpath maintenance, tree inspections and general requests.

Our Council has nine elected councilors, three representing each municipal electoral ward. councilors are elected from the community every four years to represent the interests of all residents and ratepayers in the governing of the municipality. Each year residents pay for the services they use, including property rates, registration of pets or businesses, parking fines or planning permits. Every day of the year the City of Greater Bendigo works to provide facilities and services, guard public health and safety, plan for the tomorrow and assist residents to thrive. Our community and major events teams issue permits and help organizers to create safe, thriving events in Bendigo. Community groups are encouraged to pursue priorities and develop projects with aid from our community grants program and the encourage of the Community Development team. We encourage community groups with their projects that assist to keep and revitalize the natural environment with our community grants program. We manage urban storm water, issue permits for septic tanks and encourage water conservation in planning and construction projects as segment of our sustainable water management program. Heritage can relate to a wide variety of places, including a building or group of buildings, site or area, land or landscape, a memorial, a tree, garden or parkland, the place of a historical event, urban areas, towns, industrial sites, archaeological sites, as healthy as spiritual and religious places. The City of Greater Bendigo protects our wealthy heritage for present and tomorrow generations by managing our heritage places, our heritage projects and through the Heritage Overlay in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme, which lists those places that are locally significant. We bear the subsequent services or information: The City of Greater Bendigo is working firm to decrease waste. Our residents and visitors enjoy a range of quality facilities including family play spaces, swimming pools and a splash park, ovals and sporting fields, skate parks and BM tracks. The City of Greater Bendigo establishes, designs and maintains green spaces to improve the presentation of our city. Community planning How we plan Strategic planning projects. The unit’s integrated planning approach incorporates strategic land use planning, community and social planning, corporate, heritage, and sustainable transport planning. BM tracks and jumps Community Halls Events calendar Explore our history and heritage Get involved in your community Make a booking Automatic reserves Parks and gardens Play spaces Public toilets and barbecues See a performance Skate parks Sports fields Swimming pools and splash park Visit a gallery Visit a library Visit a visitor information center Walk or ride a follow Walk the dog places to exercise your dog. Have you organized an event that is taking place in the Greater Bendigo region? The City of Greater Bendigo has many beautiful and different parks and gardens for you to enjoy. Capital Venues and Events also works closely with the local community groups, schools and little towns to deliver quality performing arts opportunities, workshops and development programs. Our engagement with our community includes our councilors representing the views of their constituents and communities, partnerships, communities planning their own future, community involvement, consultation, providing information, activities, receiving and responding to complaints, and day today customer service. T he City of Greater Bendigo Citizens' Jury is an initiative to engage our community to help shape the Council's priorities for the future. Questions, as well as petitions and joint letters, are tabled at the begin of each ordinary meeting of Greater Bendigo City Council. The Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme controls land use and development within our municipality.