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4. Implementation Plan

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Action Council Primary Implementation Responsibility

Other Responsible Agencies and Stakeholders

Priority

Theme 1: Reinforcing the CBD as the centre of activity RETAIL ACTIVITY • Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to ensure that new

developments incorporate retail uses on the ground level to create “active” street frontages and encourage pedestrian movement. Uses such as shops, cafes, banks and other financial institutions, travel agents and take away food outlets all generate pedestrian traffic and interest. Blank walls, non-transparent windows, empty shopfronts and offices that do not generate pedestrian visits should be avoided at ground level, particularly in the Retail Core and pedestrian connections.

Strategic Planning Traders Association

Local Businesses

Land Owners

High

• Facilitate actions to ensure the retention and improvement of the Myer, Coles and Target stores within the CBD Structure Plan area. Maintain regular contact with Myer administration and continue to demonstrate the Council’s commitment to ensuring the CBD retains a strong economic sector.

EDU

Place Manager

Coles Myer Ltd High

• Appoint a CBD Place Manager, possibly through the Streetlife program or with funding from DSE, to initiate discussions with landowners, major operators and government authorities, facilitate development, secure funding and coordinate the various actions required to implement the Structure Plan and the Transit Cities master plan.

Strategic Planning DSE High

• Encourage the CBD traders to undertake on-going joint marketing and promote activities. This could be funded by a trader managed levy.

EDU Traders Association

Local Businesses

CBD Place Manager

High

• Negotiate with the owners of the ‘Crystal Ice’ site for the appropriate redevelopment for office, residential and larger format retailing including bulky goods. Implement planning scheme controls to achieve development of a scale and type that will complement the retail offer of the CBD.

EDU/Strategic Planning

Place Manager

Landowner High

• Preparing a Development Plan for the Marketplace that delineates the future location of expansion of the retail and related functions, and details of public space improvements required including improving the pedestrian connection with Mitchell Street and Railway Place. (See Precinct C for more detailed guidelines)

Statutory planning Landowner High

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Priority

• Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to require significant retail developments to provide an Economic Impact Statement addressing the impact of the proposed development on the economic health of the remainder of the CBD.

Strategic Planning Land owner

Developer

High

• Develop and improve Hargreaves Street and Mitchell Street as the two key pedestrian routes in the CBD.

Capital Projects Land owners

Servicing authorities

High

• Continue to facilitate discussions between Sandhurst Trustees and estates and properties under its control to achieve appropriate development and redevelopment of underutilised sites.

EDU

CBD Place Manager

Sandhurst Trustees Medium

• Explore opportunities for site consolidation and redevelopment for retail uses within the CBD Core Area.

EDU, Statutory Planning, CBD Place Manager

Land owners

Developers

Medium

• Identify appropriate contributions to infrastructure improvements that could be made by developers including improved pedestrian connections and/or streetscape improvements.

Statutory Planning Land owners

Developers

Medium

• Investigate the potential to consolidate Council owned land with adjoining privately owned development sites to form larger, more efficient development sites.

Strategic Planning, CBD Place Manager

Land owners

Developers

Medium

• Co-ordinate the redevelopment of all the Council car parks from Hargreaves to Wills Streets along Edward Street, with the redevelopment of the ‘Rivers’ site, with a view to encouraging retail development along the street frontages at ground level.

Commercial Projects Officer

‘Rivers’ site land owners Medium

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY • Include strategy and policy within the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme that actively

seeks to ensure that proposed head offices and large businesses locate in the CBD rather than other locations in Bendigo.

Strategic Planning Large Businesses and Corporations

RDV

High

• Allow multi-storey office development on larger sites in appropriate precincts in the CBD, as identified in the Built Form section.


Developers

High

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Priority

• Encourage the location of future government offices and civic uses within the Civic Precinct, particularly where there is a potential synergy between uses, and where multiple trips by service users can be avoided.

Statutory Planning, EDU Commonwealth, State and Local Governments

High

• Promote the CBD as a key office location through Bendigo marketing campaigns. EDU CBD Place Manager

RDV

Medium

• Facilitate discussions between Sandhurst Trustees and the Council to explore opportunities for site consolidation and redevelopment for commercial uses within the CBD Core Area.

CBD Place Manager Sandhurst Trustees Medium

RESIDENTIAL • Encourage high density residential development in the Railway Station precinct, opposite

Rosalind Park in Pall Mall (the Bendigo Advertiser site in particular), in the View Street precinct and on larger sites west of Edward Street.

Statutory Planning, CBD Place Manager

Land owners

Developers

CBD Place Manager

DSE

DOI

Rail Operators

Vic Track

High

• Encourage adaptation of the underutilized upper levels of CBD buildings for residential use. Identify impediments to the reuse of buildings including ownership, car parking, fire and building regulations, and develop possible options for developers/owners. Utilise similar work already undertaken in the City of Melbourne and, in conjunction with a developer, produce a demonstration project or virtual example.

CBD Place Manager

EDU

Strategic Planning

Land Owners

Developers

CBD Place Manager

High

• Introduce local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to support adaptation of heritage buildings for residential use (e.g. in the View Street, Hargreaves Street and Bath Lane area) while protecting the heritage character through provision of technical advice and planning approval support.

Strategic Planning DSE

Land owners

Developers

Heritage Victoria

High

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Priority

• Investigate mechanism to reduce Planning Scheme car parking requirements for redevelopment of existing buildings for residential use in the CBD.


Land owners

Developers

High

• Support residential development by undertaking amenity improvements such as streetscape upgrades, safety audits and landscaping.

Capital Projects DSE

Police

High

• Promote the opportunities for, and benefits of, CBD living in Bendigo in a marketing program similar to Melbourne City Council’s Postcode 3000 or City of Greater Geelong’s Postcode 3220.

EDU

CBD Place Manager

CBD Place Manager

DSE

DIIRD

Medium

TOURISM • Investigate the feasibility of establishing additional quality visitor accommodation in the

CBD, including large scale five star and boutique style facilities. The Police Station, Bendigo Advertiser, and the Beaurepaire sites, and sites between McCrae St and Farmer Lane bounded by Chapel Street are the best located and provide the most opportunity at present. Other historic buildings such as the building currently occupied by St Lukes should be recognised as providing boutique hotel opportunities in future.

CBD Place Manager

Strategic Planning

Tourism

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Land Owners

Developers

CBD Place Manager

High

• Improve the potential to promenade between tourist nodes by providing safe pedestrian links supported by the provision of directional and interpretative signage. Utilise a consistent approach in terms of design and theming of all signage, as proposed by Council’s Urban Designer.

Capital Projects

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

High

• Investigating further improvements to the Heritage Tram, and/or an extension of other similar road based alternatives.

Capital Projects Bendigo Tourism

Central Deborah Trust

Tourism Victoria

High

• Install directional signage from the Station to the Retail Core and tourist destinations. Capital Projects Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

High

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Priority

• Support visitor accommodation development with amenity improvements such as streetscape improvements and landscaping.

Capital Projects Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Medium

• Promote opportunities for the development of visitor accommodation to the major accommodation providers.

Strategic Planning

Tourism

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Accommodation Providers

Medium

• Work with Tourism Victoria to identify opportunities to develop overnight accommodation. Tourism Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Medium

• Encourage the establishment of ancillary tourist services such as currency exchange facilities and tour operators.

Tourism Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Banks

Low

ENTERTAINMENT AND EVENTS • Provide enhanced entertainment opportunities in the Mall and other locations in the CBD

through the provision of additional informal street-based spaces and venues. (see also Public Spaces)

Capital Projects DSE High

• Prepare a co-ordinated event calendar and management plan for the CBD, with trader involvement. (see Activities - Bendigo CBD Core Area)

Events CBD Place Manager

Bendigo Traders Association

Local Businesses

High

• Ensure that wherever possible all future proposed events in Bendigo are located in the CBD.

Events

EDU

Tourism

CBD Place Manager Medium

• Utilise Council, educational institutions and community based resources to market and discover event possibilities.

Events

Tourism

BRIT

La Trobe University

Medium

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Priority

• Coordinate the Council’s street banners with events and festivals. Events CBD Place Manager Medium

• Commission public art to enliven pedestrian routes. CBD Place Manager

Capital Projects

Cultural Development

Bendigo Art Gallery

Tourism Victoria

Low

EDUCATION • Include specific strategy and policy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to

encourage the location of tertiary and higher education facilities in and around the CBD. Strategic Planning BRIT

La Trobe University

High

• Work with BRIT and La Trobe University to encourage and coordinate the further expansion of tertiary facilities in the Bendigo CBD.

CBD Place Manager

EDU

Statutory Planning

Strategic Planning

BRIT

La Trobe University

High

• Investigate the feasibility of establishing multi-storey student accommodation in CBD locations identified as appropriate for residential development.

CBD Place Manager

Strategic Planning

BRIT

La Trobe University

Medium

• Ensure that the strong education sector is highlighted in any general marketing of Bendigo.

EDU

Tourism

CBD Place Manager

Tourism Victoria

RDV

Medium

• Contact other tertiary institutions to develop interest in a diversity of tertiary opportunities in Bendigo.

City Strategy

EDU

Other tertiary institutions not already represented in Bendigo including:

Melbourne University

Monash University

Victoria University

Low

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Priority

• Encourage and support, if necessary, Bendigo’s tertiary institutions to maintain a high profile presence at student information events (eg VCE Expo) and publications (eg Education Age).

EDU BRIT

La Trobe University

Low

SPECIALIST SERVICES • Design public spaces that can cater for the recreation and social activities of young

people but discourage anti-social behaviour. Capital Projects YMCA

Recreation Victoria

High

• Investigate providing active recreation areas for young people (such as skate parks) in accessible and visible locations to provide young people with an alternative to public spaces used by the wider community for bike riding and skateboards. Provide viewing platforms for others to watch and provide passive surveillance.

Recreation YMCA

Recreation Victoria

Medium

• Investigate opportunities to showcase youth art, possibly through commissioning of art or sculpture, or student art displays in public areas such as the Hargreaves Mall.

Capital Projects

Youth

Local Schools

Bendigo Art Gallery

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Medium

• Work with aged services providers to encourage the location of aged services within highly accessible areas with the Bendigo CBD.

Aged Services Aged services providers

Health services providers

Aged housing providers

Medium

• Involve educational institutions in developing student input to public issues in the CBD such as ‘vox pop’ activities, surveys, art competitions.

Youth Local schools

BRIT

La Trobe University

Low

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Priority

INFRASTRUCTURE • Work closely with servicing authorities to coordinate future expansion of servicing

infrastructure to cater for the growth of the Bendigo CBD. Maintain frequent contact with strategic planning services within each authority.

Strategic Planning Servicing authorities High

• Develop ecologically sustainable development guidelines for buildings and stormwater management.

Strategic Planning Coliban Water

DSE

Medium

• Require the laying of conduit for fibre optic cabling within major developments. Statutory Planning Developers

Telstra and other telecommunications companies

Low

• Investigate providing additional public toilets facilities in safe and convenient locations within the CBD.

Capital Projects

CBD Place Manager

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Low

Theme 2: Celebrating cultural and heritage identity BUILDING FRONTAGES AND SETBACKS • Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to encourage all

development to create active frontages onto footpaths, with priority given to key pedestrian areas if active frontages are not feasible on all sides of a given property.


High

• Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to avoid alcoves and recesses in facades along footpaths in the Retail Core and along pedestrian connections to reduce real and perceived risks to personal safety; buildings with irregular plans at ground level are generally appropriate only where set back away from the footpath.


High

• Introduce policy and strategy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to require buildings to be designed with setbacks and articulation of facades at upper building levels to create interesting and attractive streetscapes and to reduce the apparent bulk of tall buildings especially along long frontages.


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Priority

• Introduce policy and strategy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to require weather protection to be provided in the design of new buildings in areas delineated on Map 4 – Building frontages and weather protection.


• Include the Development Guidelines for: − Buildings with no front or side setbacks − Buildings in grounds − Priority streets for frontage activitation − Provision of weather protection

In the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme.


• Encourage building owners and business operators to refurbish building frontages regularly and restore heritage facades through the provision of advice, information and tangible assistance wherever possible.

CBD Place Manager

EDU

Land owners

Developers

Heritage Victoria

Medium

• Utilise a Heritage Fund to facilitate the refurbishment and reuse of heritage buildings. Statutory Planning Heritage Victoria Medium

BUILDING HEIGHTS • Implement the maximum heights contained on Map 5: Buildings Heights, through the

Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme.


• Include the objectives and Development Guidelines for building heights in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme.


Theme 3: Creating an accessible place WALKING AND CYCLING • Improve pedestrian access and signage between the railway station precinct

/Marketplace and the CBD Retail Core, particularly along Mitchell Street. (see Map 6: Pedestrian Priority Areas and Routes)

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

CBD Place Manager

DSE

DOI

Marketplace

Vic Roads

High

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Priority

• Improve pedestrian access throughout the Marketplace car park (see Map 6: Pedestrian Priority Areas and Routes)

Statutory Planning Marketplace High

• Implement a package of identified engineering improvements, including new crossings, centre-of-road refuges and other measures to reduce crossing distances, enhance safety and facilitate accessibility. (see Map 8: Traffic Circulation)

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads High

• Review and improve, where necessary, the pedestrian crossing facilities at all roundabouts in the CBD, including replacing roundabouts with signalised crossings and/or replace two-lane roundabouts with one-lane roundabouts.

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads High

• Provide secure bicycle parking at all Council buildings and community facilities and Council-controlled off-street car parks.

Capital Projects

Engineering

High

• Avoid dedicated turn lanes. Engineering Vic Roads High

• Implement a package of improvements to on-road bicycle facilities including exclusive bicycle lanes on key roads leading into the CBD and bicycle lanes at all signalised intersections within the CBD.

Recreation

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads

Bicycle Victoria

High

• Program traffic signals to allow more time for pedestrian crossing movements throughout the CBD.

Engineering Vic Roads High

• Improve pedestrian and cyclist amenity through the provision of seating, bike parking rails and drinking fountains, preferably in shady locations, throughout the CBD.

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

DSE

Bicycle Victoria

Medium

• Provide kerbside parallel parking to increase ‘friction’ for traffic and to provide a buffer between pedestrians and moving vehicles.

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads Medium

• Improve Edward Street as a walking environment, with standard footpaths along both sides of the road.

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

Statutory Planning

Adjoining land owners and businesses

Medium

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Priority

LANES AND ARCADES • Create new east-west pedestrian laneways linking Williamson Street and Mundy Street,

between Lyttleton Terrace and Myers Street, as part of new developments in this area (See Map 7: Pedestrian Links).


Developers

High

• Improve access and the legibility of routes north-south through BRIT connecting with the footbridge to the Golden Dragon Museum, and create new north-south pedestrian laneways linking with routes through BRIT, between Hargreaves and Queen Streets (See Map 7: Pedestrian Links).

Capital Projects

Statutory Planning

BRIT

Chinese Dragon Museum

High

• Create an east-west pedestrian route along the south side of the Bendigo Creek/canal, linking the Golden Dragon Museum to Charing Cross (See Map 7: Pedestrian Links).

Capital Projects Chinese Dragon Museum

High

• Enhance and create new north-south pedestrian links between Mitchell and Edward Streets, extending from Charing Cross to the Marketplace along the drainage easements (See Map 7: Pedestrian Links).

Statutory Planning

Capital Projects

Land owners

Developers

High

• Implement a program of upgrade for all public lanes in the CBD to improve safety, pedestrian access and linkages.

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

Land owners

Developers

Medium

• Implement a program to assist and encourage the upgrade of arcades within the CBD to improve appearance, lighting, safety, activity and hours of access.

EDU

CBD Place Manager

Capital Projects

Hargreaves Mall Traders Association

Local Businesses

CBD Place Manager

Medium

ROAD SYSTEM • Improve directional signage (eg. ‘CBD By-pass’) and enhance traffic priority along the

Inner and Outer Boxes to encourage their use for through traffic in preference to routes through the CBD.

Engineering Vic Roads High

• Reduce traffic capacity of the Charing Cross intersection in order to allow for significant improvement of pedestrian amenity, safety and convenience in the area.

Capital Projects Vic Roads High

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Priority

Engineering

• Extend Edward Street to High Street and encourage use of Edward Street for access from High Street to Market Place and other CBD development south-west of Mitchell Street (ie. in preference to turns from High Street or Pall Mall into Mitchell Street).

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads Medium

• Implement a 40 km/hour speed limit throughout the Pedestrian Priority Area of the CBD (see Map 6: Pedestrian Priority Areas and Routes).

Engineering Vic Roads Medium

• Restrict truck movements (other than delivery trucks) by applying a truck ban in the CBD and diverting non-local truck movements to the Inner and Outer Box road systems ( see Map 8 Traffic Circulation).


• Investigate long term shift of the Inner Box southwards to improve synergy between the Railway precinct, Marketplace and other areas within the CBD (see Map 8 Traffic Circulation).


• Use traffic calming measures as appropriate to deal with evolving traffic pressures, such as minimise lane widths and traffic speeds, but avoid any full road closures.

Engineering Vic Roads Low

PUBLIC TRANSPORT • Continue to implement the improvements identified for the Bendigo Station precinct in the

Bendigo Transport Interchange / Urban Design / Masterplanning Study, 2003. CBD Place Manager

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

DSE

DOI

Rail operators and Vic Track

High

• Retain current bus terminus locations in Mitchell Street but review routes to ensure optimum coverage of CBD.

Strategic Planning DOI

Bus operators

High

• Advocate the improvement of all bus services through increased frequencies and extension of services into weeknights and weekends.

Strategic Planning DOI

Bus operators

High

• Install high quality shelters for waiting bus passengers and generally enhance all bus stops in the CBD through the provision of seating, lighting, litter bins and timetable information.

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

DOI

Bus operators

High

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Priority

• Upgrade bus terminus facilities in Mitchell Street and at other busy locations by widening footpaths to accommodate improved bus stop facilities.

Engineering

Capital Projects

DOI

Bus operators

High

• Implement active bus priority through introduction of special traffic signal phases for buses (second to pedestrians), where appropriate, at CBD traffic signal sites.

Engineering

Capital Projects

DOI

Bus operators

High

• Provide physical priority for buses through additional road space at key locations – this can take the form of exclusive bus lanes for priority progression at busy intersections.

Engineering DOI

Bus operators

Vic Roads

Medium

• Develop a public awareness program to promote the alternative modes of transport to access the CBD.

Strategic Planning

Engineering

Recreation

DOI

Rail operators

Bus operators

Medium

• Investigate providing park and ride facilities along public transport corridors providing access to the CBD to reduce pressure for parking within the CBD.

Engineering

Strategic Planning

DOI

Rail operators

Bus operators

Medium

• Advocate o DOI to provide real-time service information at all key bus stops in the CBD. Strategic Planning

Engineering

DOI

Bus operators

Medium

PARKING • Pursue the development of additional multi-level carparking structures in the vicinity of

Edwards Street as identified in the Central Business District Car Parking Study. Capital Projects Land owners

Developers

High

• Improve signage and lighting to all Council-controlled off-street carparks and review pedestrian routes to these carparks to ensure that they are also well lit and signed.

Capital Projects High

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Priority

• Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to reduce Scheme car parking requirements for redevelopment of existing buildings for residential use in the CBD.

See Theme 1: Reinforcing the CBD as the centre of activity, Residential


Land owners

Developers

High

• Investigate opportunities to provide angle parking spaces to improve access for disabled people.

Capital Projects

Engineering

Vic Roads Low

• Investigate the needs of tourist bus operators and the need for holding bays, either near tourist facilities, or outside the CBD.

Engineering Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Tour bus operators

Low

Theme 4: Designing a high quality environment PEDESTRIAN AMENITY • Undertake improvement works to the Charing Cross/Pall Mall entry to the Bendigo CBD. Capital Projects

Vic Roads

Heritage Victoria

High

• Undertake improvement works to Hargreaves Street (including Hargreaves Mall) Capital Projects Hargreaves Mall Traders Association

Local businesses

Community

High

• Encourage the restoration of the heritage façade of the building located on the south east corner of Pall Mall and Mitchell Street in particular as a key location, and other heritage buildings wherever possible.

Capital Projects

Heritage Advisor

Land owners

Local businesses

Heritage Victoria

High

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Priority

STREETSCAPE • Undertake a program of streetscape upgrades throughout the CBD, with consistent

application of a suite of street furniture, paving, trees, kerbing, lighting, footpath widths and other details, within defined areas. See Map 10 Streetscape Materials Plan to indicate areas of like-materials)

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects


Local Businesses

High

• Views along streets to the Town Hall should be opened up by actions such as redesigning Lyttleton Terrace between Mitchell Street and Williamson Street to create a simpler, less cluttered streetscape with open views to the Town Hall (see Map 9 Views and Vistas).

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

Land owners

Developers

High

• Redesign Charing Cross to improve the setting, appearance and appreciation of the Alexandra Fountain.

Capital Projects

Engineering

Heritage Victoria

Vic Roads

High

DESIGN QUALITY • Develop a long term plan for streetscape enhancements (see Public Spaces:

Streetscapes) and stage its implementation opportunistically to stimulate desirable redevelopment and to assist in negotiations with developers.

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

Land owners

Developers

High

• Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to require superior performance under each of a number of assessment criteria as a basis for permitting building heights beyond preferred or discretionary limits, including: − Achieving excellence in architectural design − Implementing environmental sustainability principles − Achieving heritage restoration and adaptive re-use − Enhancing public and private amenity − Protection of the development potential of nearby sites


• The Council undertake development projects to provide examples of quality design and best practice ecological sustainability principles.

Capital Projects DSE High

• The Council consider employing an Urban Designer/Architect to provide advice to development applicants and owners on ESD and quality design.

Statutory Planning DSE High

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Priority

• Investigate the Design Panel model as a method of obtaining high quality design and its appropriateness for Bendigo. Including:

− Amenity impacts of high density − Sustainability of development proposals − Protection of development potential of adjoining sites.

Statutory Planning DSE High

• Work with shop owners to encourage provision of under awning lighting for safety reasons.

Statutory Planning DSE

Heritage Victoria

Medium

• Develop additional design guidelines if required to tailor the new DSE higher density residential guidelines to issues specific to Bendigo.

Strategic Planning DSE Medium

• Encourage developers to use qualified and experienced design professionals. Reinforce the message that good design can save costs by expediting approvals as well as by providing potentially higher returns on capital investments.

Statutory Planning DSE

Architects

Urban Designers

Medium

• Continue to support restoration of heritage buildings through interest-free loans via Council’s Heritage Restoration Assistance Program, and provision of advice through Council’s Heritage Advisor and the Heritage Advisory Committee.

Statutory Planning Heritage Victoria Ongoing

• Continue the refurbishment and redevelopment of the Beehive Building as a major Council initiative to demonstrate the potential sympathetic re-use of important heritage buildings.

Capital Projects Heritage Victoria

DSE

Ongoing

• Consider establishment of a local Design Awards program to promote design excellence, or sponsor a special award within an existing awards program (e.g. RAIA, AILA, API).

Statutory Planning

Events

RAIA

AILA

API

Low

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Priority

Precinct A: Specialty retail core • Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to ensure that new

developments incorporate retail uses on the ground level to create “active” street frontages and encourage pedestrian movement. Uses such as specialty shops, cafes, banks and other financial institutions, travel agents and take away food outlets all generate pedestrian traffic and interest. Blank walls, empty shopfronts and offices that do not generate pedestrian visits should be avoided at ground level.

See Theme 1: Reinforcing the CBD as the centre of activity, Retail Activity

DSE


Local Businesses

Land Owners

Developers

High

• Upgrade the Mall to improve its appearance through high quality works, include additional retail opportunities in the centre of the Mall, encourage café/restaurant development extending into the Mall area and to establish additional event venues. (For details see section on Public Spaces, Pedestrian Amenity).

See Theme 4: Designing a high quality environment


Local Businesses

High

• Investigate the potential to ‘reopen’ Hargreaves Mall to provide a purely limited traffic function – thus contributing to improving local access / circulation in the CBD and reducing traffic load on alternate routes such as Queen Street and Lyttleton Terrace.

See Theme 4: Designing a high quality environment, Pedestrian amenity


Local Businesses

High

• Work with Myer to encourage the retention of the Myer store in the Retail Core. See Theme 1: Reinforcing the CBD as the centre of activity, Retail Activity

Coles Myer Ltd High

• Provide training and information workshops on merchandise presentation and marketing. EDU

CBD Place Manager

CBD Place Manager High

• Rezone all properties in the Precinct within other zones to Business 1 zone, and introduce strategy or policy to ensure the Structure Plan objectives and actions are reflected in the Planning Scheme.


Land owners

Local Businesses

High

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Priority

• Develop a brief for the Bendigo Advertiser building outlining the Council’s preferred uses for the site, including tourist accommodation, office or residential above ground level and retail, office or commercial use at ground level.

Strategic Planning Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

Land owner

CBD Place Manager

High

• Encourage the restoration of the heritage façade of the building located on the south east corner of Pall Mall and Mitchell Street

See Theme 4: Designing a high quality environment, Pedestrian amenity

Land owners

Local businesses

Heritage Victoria

High

• Encourage the upgrade of arcades including Killians Walk and Backhaus Arcade to provide adequate lighting, activity, appearance and maintenance.

CBD Place Manager

EDU

Statutory Planning

Land owners

Developers

High

• Upgrade the appearance and attractiveness of Allan’s Walk during refurbishment of the Beehive Building.


Local businesses

High

• Upgrade Chancery Walk and the Lane adjoining the Council’s multi-deck car park through the addition of an active frontage and streetscape improvements to reflect the qualities of the remainder of the walkway.

CBD Place Manager

Strategic Planning

Land owners

Local businesses

High

• Upgrade the façade of the multi storey car park to provide an improved streetscape. Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

High

• Abandon the proposed remodel of the Myers / Wills / Mitchell Streets intersection (creating a straight alignment from Wills Street into Myers Street). The intersection should be designed to provide improved pedestrian crossing and amenity as its priority, retain the City’s urban form, and encourage the redirection of through traffic to the Inner Box.

Engineering

Capital Projects

Vic Roads High

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Priority

• Undertake improvement works to the Charing Cross/Pall Mall entry to the Bendigo CBD, providing links with Precinct E: Recreation and Entertainment.

see Theme 4 - Designing a high quality urban environment, Streetscapes

Vic Roads

Heritage Victoria

High

• Undertake streetscape works in Hargreaves Street to provide improved pedestrian and cycle amenity and to improve integration with surrounding precincts.

see Theme 4 - Designing a high quality urban environment, Streetscapes


Local Businesses

High

• Retain the current bus terminus locations in Mitchell Street and advocate for improved facilities including shelter, real time displays and timetable information.

See Theme 3: Creating an accessible place, Public Transport

DOI

Bus operators

High

• Undertake community safety measures including installation of lighting under verandas, (ensuring low energy globes are used to minimise emission of greenhouse gases), other street lighting, and building design to allow passive surveillance of public spaces.

CBD Place Manager

EDU


Local Businesses

CBD Place Manager

Low

• Remodel the Mitchell / Queen Streets intersection to allow a relaxation of turn restrictions (allowing all traffic movements except the right turn from the east Queen Street approach)

Capital Projects Vic Roads Low

Precinct B: Peripheral sales • Include policy and strategies in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to require new

development and redevelopment to provide active frontages to improve the pedestrian environment.


Hargreaves Mall Traders Association Local Businesses Land owners Developers

High

• Include policy and strategies in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to encourage a range of commercial, service business, office, and large format retail uses such as household items, lighting and electrical.


• Pursue the development of additional multi level car parking structures at Council car parks on Edward Streets for retailing with structured car parking, active frontages at street level and a range of uses.

See Theme 3: Creating an accessible place, Parking

Developers High

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Priority

• Redevelop the Council car park on Queen and Edward Streets for retailing with structured car parking,

See Theme 3: Creating an accessible place, Parking

Developers High

• Undertake streetscape works between Edward Street to High Street and to improve the pedestrian amenity.

Engineering

Capital Projects

Medium

• Co-ordinate the redevelopment of the Council car park on the corner of Hargreaves and Edward Street with the redevelopment of the ‘Rivers’ site, with a view to encouraging retail development along the Edward Street frontages at ground level.


‘Rivers’ site land owner

Medium

• Rezone the car park located on the north west corner of Edward and Wills Streets from Business 5 to Business 1, and remove the Heritage Overlay.


• Extend Edward Street to High Street and encourage use of Edward Street for access from High Street to Marketplace and other CBD development south west of Mitchell Street (ie in preference to turns from High Street or Pall Mall into Mitchell Street.

See Theme 3: Creating an accessible place, Road system

Vic Roads Medium

Precinct C Marketplace retail core • Apply a Development Plan Overlay to the Marketplace precinct requiring development to

accord with the Development Guidelines for: − Distribution of development and activities − Protection of heritage open spaces − Streetscape and pedestrian amenity − Building alignment and activation of frontages − Building heights

The development plan should address: − Extension of the centre towards Mitchell Street; − Improved connections between Marketplace, the railway station and the remainder of

the CBD; − Ensure that new development does not encroach closer to the Goods Shed building

to ensure the heritage setting of the building is retained;


CFS Gandel (land owners)

Gandel Retail Management (Managers of Bendigo Marketplace Shopping Centre)

High

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Priority

• Encourage the redevelopment of the Goods Shed for specialty retailing, including food and beverages. The Goods Shed should provide active frontages (while ensuring the heritage qualities of the building are retained).

Statutory Planning CFS Gandel (land owners)


Medium

Precinct D ‘Crystal Ice” and Gillies Pie Factory Sites • Rezone the Crystal Ice and Gillies Pie Factory precinct to Business 2 Zone and limit the

floorspace for the use ‘shop’(other than Restricted Retail) to discourage the development of small retail premises.


High

• Introduce a local policy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme that requires any expansion of retail other than bulky goods (Restricted Retail) should not occur into the Crystal Ice and Gillies Pie Factory precinct, until it can be demonstrated through economic analysis that the CBD Retail Core is functioning at capacity. (see also Precinct C-Marketplace rec)

Strategic Planning Phileo Australia

ARG Pty LTD

CFS Gandel (land owners)


DSE

Ongoing

• Develop detailed design guidelines to manage building design, advertising sign, traffic and landscaping issues.

Strategic Planning Phileo Australia

ARG Pty LTD

High

• Include policy and strategy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme that require buildings not to generally not exceed 3 storeys in height, although buildings up to 5 storeys for office or residential use may be considered where the design is of high quality.


Phileo Australia

ARG Pty LTD

High

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Priority

• Include policy and strategy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme that requires buildings located along Garsed Street not exceed 9m at least for a distance of 10 metres from the street alignment.


Phileo Australia

ARG Pty LTD

High

• Include policy and strategy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme that ensure that that the design of the development provides an appropriate frontage to Garsed Street that protects the amenity of the adjoining areas to the north.


Phileo Australia

ARG Pty LTD

High

• Investigate the necessity for an Environmental Audit Overlay for land rezoned to Business 2.


EPA

High

Precinct E Recreation and entertainment • Prepare a Master Plan to guide future development of the area around the Golden

Dragon Museum that recognises the sensitive interface of the area with Rosalind Park and other visitor related activities.

Tourism Golden Dragon Museum

Bendigo Tourism

Tourism Victoria

High

• Undertake major streetscape works at Charing Cross/Pall Mall and Bridge Street/Pall Mall to improve pedestrian safety and amenity and to enhance the visual setting for major heritage buildings and landmarks. These works should include: − Widening of the footpath on the north side of Pall Mall − Redesign of the Charing Cross intersection to reduce pavement widths, improve pedestrian

safety, amenity and setting for the Alexandra Fountain − Redesign of the Howard Place /Pall Mall intersection to improve pedestrian safety, reduce

traffic turning speeds and create more open space


Vic Roads

DSE

High

• Investigate the establishment of a weekly Farmers’ Market in Farmer Lane to showcase local produce.

EDU

Events


• Investigate the establishment of a regular Night Hawkers Market in Bridge Street, building on the Chinese cultural associations of the locality, and providing a family oriented night time activity.

Tourism

Events


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Priority

• Encourage use of the Conservatory for events and gardening related displays. Events

Tourism


• Investigate options to relocate the Telecom exchange building elsewhere, and, if possible, remove the building, or alternatively redesign the exterior to relate to the landscape qualities of the Park.

Strategic Planning

CBD Place Manager

Telstra Medium

• Investigate future short term uses for the police Station site including accommodation. In the longer term reinstate the site as parkland.

see Precinct A: Specialty Retail Core

Police

Department of Justice

Medium

• As part of the changes proposed to Pall Mall, seek to increase the number of Heritage Tram stops along Pall Mall to serve at least, the Chinese Gardens and Museum, and Shamrock Hotel.

Capital Projects Heritage Tram operators

Tourism Victoria

Vic Roads

Low

Precinct F Education • Encourage further refurbishment of the BRIT campus to provide active frontages on all

sides at ground level and opportunities for interaction of the student population with surrounding uses, especially Hargreaves Street.

Strategic Planning BRIT High

• Streetscape works to improve pedestrian and cycle amenity and to support integration of BRIT with the surrounding public realm.

Capital Projects BRIT High

• Improve pedestrian connections through the block to Hargreaves Street and McCrae Street, linking with the Chinese Gardens walkway.

Capital Projects Land owners

Developers

High

• Extend the footpath pavement in Hargreaves Street, in accordance with a coordinated set of streetscape materials and design, to provide seating and activity opportunities.

Capital Projects

Strategic Planning

Recreation

Bendigo Traders Association

Local Businesses

Land owners

Developers

High

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Priority

Precinct G Service Business • Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to encourage use of

this precinct for low scale service business, office, community services, convenience retail, cafes and business related activities. Uses discouraged from locating in this precinct are core retail uses that should be located within Precinct A - Specialty retail and bulk goods retail that should be located within Precinct B - Peripheral retail or Precinct D - ‘Crystal Ice’ and Gillies Pie Factory sites.


Land owners

Local Businesses

High

• Amend the Business 4 zone schedule to specify a maximum floor area limit of 500 sqm per premises for restricted retail premises to retain the low scale service business role of the precinct.


Land owners

Local Businesses

High

• Rezone the following land from a Business 4 zone to a Business 2 zone with the schedule to specify a maximum floor area limit of 500 sqm per premises for shops to discourage larger scale core retail from locating within the precinct. - land bounded by Hargreaves Street, Mundy Street, Hopetoun Street and Chapel

Street (excluding the Fire Station site). - land on the corner of Mundy Street and Myers Street (see Precinct plan for details)


Land owners

Local Businesses

High

• Rezone Fire Station site on Hopetoun Street from a Business 4 zone to a Public Use Zone 7 (other public uses) so that the total Fire Station site is zoned PUZ7.


Land owners

Local Businesses

High

• Include policy and strategies in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to implement the recommended preferred heights in precinct G.

See Theme 2: Celebrating cultural and heritage identity.

DSE

Landowners

Local Businesses

High

Precinct H Civic • Encouraging the location of future government offices and civic uses within the Civic

Precinct, particularly where there is a potential synergy between uses, and where multiple trips by service users can be avoided.

See Theme 1: Reinforcing the CBD as the centre of activity.

Commonwealth, State and Local Governments

Ongoing

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Priority

• Introduce a local policy into the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to encourage the location of small shops, café and outdoor dining uses in St Andrews Avenue.


Land owners

Local Businesses

Developers

High

• Ensure that the Development Brief for any redevelopment of the Council office states that building should front directly onto Lyttleton Terrace to define its crescent shape and reflect this crescent shape in planting opposite in the Town Hall Gardens. The building should be designed to provide an active frontage along St Andrews Avenue through ‘shopfront’ style services or customer service facilities. Council buildings provide the opportunity for the Council to demonstrate good practice ecologically sustainable development.

Capital Projects High

Precinct I Mixed Use • Amend the Local Planning Policy Framework of the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme

to specifically encourage residential use that respect the heritage qualities and protects the residential amenity of the Precinct. Review neighbourhood character controls and guidelines to ensure consistency with this policy.


Land owners

Residents

Local Businesses

High

• Rezone former railway land zoned Public Use Zone on McLaren Street and land within a Business 4 zone adjacent to Williamson Street (between Myer Street and McLaren Street) to a Mixed Use zone.


Land owners

Residents

Local Businesses

High

• Consider rezoning all land in Precinct to Mixed Use Zone (except properties bounded by Mollison, Mundy and McLaren Street as per present Plan).


Land owners

Residents

Local Businesses

High

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Priority

Precinct J Railway station and surrounds • Implement the recommendations of the Bendigo Transport Interchange/ Urban Design/

Master Planning Study, 2003.

CBD Place Manager

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

DSE

DOI

Train operator

Vic Track

Heritage Victoria

High

• Seek appointment of a CBD Place Manager to facilitate the implementation of the Transit City initiatives.


• Provide directional signage from the station to the CBD Retail Core and visitor attractions.

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

DSE

Vic Roads

High

• Improve pedestrian and bicycle connections to Mitchell Street from the station precinct. Recreation

Strategic Planning

Capital Projects

Vic Roads Medium

Precinct K Residential • Request State Government to facilitate the residential redevelopment identified in the

Bendigo Transport Interchange/ Urban Design/ Master Planning Study, 2003. CBD Place Manager

Strategic Planning

DSE High

• Prepare a Conservation Management Plan to assess the heritage significance of existing buildings and structures and to identify opportunities for redevelopment.

Statutory Planning Heritage Victoria High

• Introduce a local policy in the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme to ensure that the future residential development includes quality open space areas that are integrated with existing open space networks and provide a high quality environment for the proposed higher density residential development which will be more reliant on public open space areas to provide for passive and active recreation.


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Priority

Investigate rezoning land from a Public Use Zone to a more appropriate Residential 2 Zone to reflect the intention to redevelopment the land for higher density residential development.


Medium

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DSE Department of Sustainability and Environment

EPA Environmental Protection Authority

BRIT Bendigo Regional Institute of Technology

RDV Regional Development Victoria

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