Old Gold
This 19th-century event led to Bendigo's original town layout and street pattern.
What is the Gold Rush?
This zone allows residential development and moderate density in Bendigo.
What is the General Residential Zone?
This V/Line service connects Bendigo to Melbourne daily.
What is the Bendigo Train Line?
Who is Peter O'Brien?
Famous artist responsible for music mega-hits such as "Shake It Off" and "Bad Blood."
Who is Taylor Swift?
This planning tool identifies sites with historical significance in the planning scheme.
What is the Heritage Overlay?
This overlay is used to protect environmentally significant areas like Long Gully Bushland Reserve.
What is the Environmental Significance Overlay (ESO)?
This major arterial road connects central Bendigo to Maiden Gully and Melbourne.
What is the Calder Highway?
The Minister for Planning between 2010 and 2014.
Who is Matthew Guy?
The informal name/award for an AFL team that ends up in last place on the ladder.
What is the Wooden Spoon?
An older name for Bendigo - it may still appears in some planning documents and heritage listings.
What is 'Sandhurst?'
This is the acronym for the newest Zone introduced into Planning Schemes in 2025.
What is HCTZ? (Housing Choice and Transport Zone)
This concept refers to access to daily needs within a short walk or bike ride.
What is a 20-minute neighbourhood?
Who is Ebenezer Howard?
This city is the capital of Malta.
What is Valletta?
This culturally significant mountain, known as "His Teeth" in Dja Dja Wurrung language, was a site for initiation ceremonies and cross-nation gatherings, and later became a major gold mining area after European arrival.
What is Leanganook (Mount Alexander)?
This overlay manages development in areas at high risk of erosion, such as sloped bushland areas.
What is the Erosion Management Overlay (EMO)?
This local strategy from 2015 guides improvements for cycling and pedestrian access.
What is the Greater Bendigo Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy?
Famous planning icon who wrote the book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
Who is Jane Jacobs?
This city hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
What is Vancouver?
This building is considered to be the oldest dwelling in Bendigo.
What is Specimen Cottage? (178-180 Hargreaves Street)
This Park, located within a Public Park and Recreation Zone in Ironbark, has no Overlays.
What is Garden Gully Recreation Reserve?
This shared-use path runs along a former railway line, connecting communities between Bendigo, Heathcote and Axedale.
What is the O'Keefe Rail Trail?
This 19th-century economist developed a model showing that farm products are grown in concentric zones around a city based on land value and transportation costs - this later led to the development of the Bid Rent Theory.
Who is Johann Heinrich von Thünen?
Rachael Gunn, also known as Raygun, holds a PhD in this area of study at Macquarrie University.
What is Cultural Studies?