BENDIGO CEMETERY

70 CARPENTER STREET QUARRY HILL, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Victorian Heritage Register

BENDIGO CEMETERY SOHE 2008

Statement of Significance

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  • Bendigo Cemetery - Greater Bendigo City
  • BENDIGO CEMETERY - Greater Bendigo City
  • BENDIGO CEMETERY - Greater Bendigo City
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  • Plaque Citation

    BENDIGO CEMETERY - Plaque Citation

    A sophisticated Victorian provincial cemetery retaining its park style design with picturesque vistas and significant architecture including the mortuary chapel, two rotundas, a lodge, ornamental fencing and signage, as well as significant early plantings.

    Permit Exemptions

    BENDIGO CEMETERY - Permit Exemptions

    General Exemptions:

    General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.

    Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.

    Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.

    Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions.

    Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.

    Specific Exemptions:

    General Conditions: 1. All exempted alterations are to be planned and carried out in a manner which prevents damage to the fabric of the registered place or object. General Conditions: 2. Should it become apparent during further inspection or the carrying out of works that original or previously hidden or inaccessible details of the place or object are revealed which relate to the significance of the place or object, then the exemption covering such works shall cease and the Executive Director shall be notified as soon as possible. Note: All archaeological places have the potential to contain significant sub-surface artefacts and other remains. In most cases it will be necessary to obtain approval from Heritage Victoria before the undertaking any works that have a significant sub-surface component. General Conditions: 3. If there is a conservation policy and plan approved by the Executive Director, all works shall be in accordance with it. Note: The existence of a Conservation Management Plan or a Heritage Action Plan endorsed by Heritage Victoria provides guidance for the management of the heritage values associated with the site. It may not be necessary to obtain a heritage permit for certain works specified in the management plan. General Conditions: 4. Nothing in this declaration prevents the Executive Director from amending or rescinding all or any of the permit exemptions. General Conditions: 5. Nothing in this declaration exempts owners or their agents from the responsibility to seek relevant planning or building permits from the responsible authorities where applicable. Minor Works : Note: Any Minor Works that in the opinion of the Executive Director will not adversely affect the heritage significance of the place may be exempt from the permit requirements of the Heritage Act. A person proposing to undertake minor works may submit a proposal to the Executive Director. If the Executive Director is satisfied that the proposed works will not adversely affect the heritage values of the site, the applicant may be exempted from the requirement to obtain a heritage permit. If an applicant is uncertain whether a heritage permit is required, it is recommended that the permits co-ordinator be contacted. Demolition of Shed. No permit is required for the demolition of the corrugated iron work shed (c. 1906-1940s) and attached poisons store. A permit would be required for a replacement shed.

    Landscape Permit Exemptions

    * Repairs, conservation, and maintenance to hard landscape elements, buildings and structures, fountains and monuments, steps, paths, paths and gutters, drainage and irrigation systems, edging, fences and gates.
    * The process of gardening; mowing, hedge clipping, bedding displays, removal of dead plants, disease and weed control, emergency and safety garden works

    * New or replacement planting which conserves the historic landscape character including specimen trees, avenues, rows, shrubberies flower beds, and lawns.

    * In the event of loss of any tree or palm specified in the Extent of Registration, replanting with the same species of tree as that removed.
    * Management of trees in accordance with Australian Standard; Pruning of Amenity Trees AS 4373.

    * Installation, removal or replacement of garden watering and drainage systems outside the canopy edge of significant trees.
    * Vegetation protection and management of the possum and rabbit population.
    * Removal of plants listed as noxious weeds in the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994

    General:
    * Interments, burials and erection of monuments, re-use of graves, burial of cremated remains, and exhumation of remains in accordance with the Cemeteries Act 1958 (as amended).
    * Stabilisation, restoration and repair of monuments.
    * Emergency and safety works to secure the site and prevent damage and injury to property and the public.
    * Monument works undertaken in accordance with Australian Standard AS4204 Headstones and Cemetery Monuments
    * Painting of previously painted structures provided that preparation or painting does not remove evidence of the original paint or other decorative scheme.

    Permit Exemption Policy

    BENDIGO CEMETERY - Permit Exemption Policy

    The cemetery is important for its nineteenth century and early twentieth century layout and plantings, ornate fence and gates, signage, chapel, lodge, rotundas, monuments and memorials and associated funerary artefacts. The Chinese burnng towers and burial ground with footstones reflect an important aspect of Bendigo's history.

    The Bendigo Cemetery Carpenter Street Bendigo Conservation Management Plan prepared by Heritage Alliance for the Bendigo Cemeteries Trust (2002) should form the basis for permit policy.

    The corrugated iron worksheds in the middle of the site may be removed or demolished without a permit.

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