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Yarriambiack Shire Buloke Shire Hindmarsh Shire West Wimmera Shire The Wimmera Mallee Town & Tourism strategy acknowledges the Koori Aboriginal language groups as the Traditional Custodians for Yarriambiack, Hindmarsh, Buloke and West Wimmera and surrounding Land and Waters. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and emerging, recognising their continued spiritual relationship and responsibilities for Country. The Wimmera Mallee Town & Tourism strategy. This Strategy also acknowledges and pays respect to Australian Indigenous Peoples who were separated from Clan and Country and also reside in Yarriambiack, Hindmarsh, Buloke and West Wimmera and surrounding communities. May these journeys of healing be acknowledged, respected, supported and become mutual objectives for all Australians. 1. Introduction 3 Integrating Level 1: Regional Strategy 4 Buloke Shire 5 Sea Lake - Town & Tourism Strategy 6,7,8 Sea Caravan Park Strategy 9,10 Whycheproof - Town & Tourism Strategy 11,12,13 Whycheproof Caravan Park Strategy 14,15 Tchum Lakes Camping Ground Strategy 16,17 Donald - Town & Tourism Strategy 18,19,20 Donald Lakeside Caravan Park Strategy 21,22 Charlton - Town & Tourism Strategy 23,24,25 Charlton Caravan Park Strategy 26,27 Wooroonook Lakes Caravan Park Strategy 28,29 2. Regional Strategy Town & Tourism Strategy Local strategies proposed for locations across the region Town & Tourism Strategy Level 2 of this strategy responds to town and tourism park level opportunities, directions and learnings gathered through site visits and workshops. The Town & Tourism Strategy recommends projects to guide the revitalisation and tourism preparedness of 16 Towns and 24 Caravan Parks across four shires. These projects should be explored, prioritised, implemented and championed by the community, shires and Wimmera Mallee Tourism. Projects at each location are generally ordered according to their priority of implementation, or their necessary chronological order. While some are ‘quick wins’, it is generally encouraged that rigorous concept planning, professional advice and community consultation is seeked out and undertaken prior to undertaking projects. This report suggests indicative budgets (where possible) for each project at the town and tourism level. These are high level opinions of probable cost based on industry prices, and do not allow for community in kind input. As projects are developed, these budgets will be able to be further clarified. Note that Regional Strategy icons are placed onto Town and Caravan Park maps to indicate where regionwide projects might be implemented on the ground. They are also associated with written project recommendations to indicate where they might align with - and inform - projects recommended locally. 3. Regional Strategy Town & Tourism Strategy Regional Strategy Programs, Networks and Projects The programs, networks and projects listed here form a set of recommended approaches across the region. These are relevant at a region wide level as they contribute to reinforcing the regional character of the visitor experience. Whilst being considered and discussed at a regional level, these icons will be used Self Contained Regional throughout Level 2 of the document to indicate where they could be implemented Accommodation Touring Routes Town Centre & Identity Liveability locally. Located on town and tourist park maps, as well as associated with specific recommendations, these icons suggest how regional level strategy can be woven through the Wimmera Mallee. Town Centre Accommodation Where icons are found throughout Level 2, it may be useful to refer back to the Relationship with Town Cente Accommodation Network the project’s regional description to understand how the project might be applied Aboriginal community Meeting Places (Tour Groups) in specfic cases. Materials Vacant Shopfront Electric Car Town Centre Palette Installations Charging Network Traffic Calming Town Housing Open House/ Town Entry Committees Stock Garden Program Signage Camping Tertiary design Universal Access Street Trees Opportunities school collaboration Reliability and Barista availability Training of services Dry Lake Attraction Google Maps Entries Amenities Upgrade Competition Requisite initial projects: These projects should be completed at the outset as they provide information and guidance that will influence the contribution of many other projects to the regionla character of the visitor experience. Quick wins: Projects that are deemed relatively simple to implement - with low design, planning and consultation required in their implementation. 4. Regional Strategy Town & Tourism Strategy With farming communities at its centre, Buloke Shire is Victo- region led to extensive clearing of native vegetation in the Shire for ria’s true agricultural heartland. agricultural use of the land and as such, the natural environment Patchewollock was highly modified, and the areas of remnant vegetation are highly The Shire covers more than 8,000 square kilometres of the valued. The remnant vegetation includes grassland and woodland Mallee region in the state’s northwest, stretching between communities and contain significant native vegetation communities Serviced Caravan Park Lake Tyrrell, Victoria’s largest salt lake, and the northern such as the Buloke Woodlands Allocasuarina luehmannii, Grey Bush / Free Camp reaches of the picturesque Avoca River. Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Sea Lake Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia, Natural Grasslands Sunraysia Hwy Cabins Buloke Shire Council has a population of 6,124 and serves of the Murray Valley Plains, White Box E. albens -Yellow Box- E. the communities of Wycheproof (588), Charlton (961), Donald leucoxylon, Blakely’s Red Gum E. balkelyi Grassy Woodland and Proposed Cabins (1,395), Birchip and Sea Lake (574), as well as the smaller Derived Native Grassland. Proposed Route townships of Berriwillock, Culgoa, Nandaly, Nullawil and Yarriambiack Watchem. Green Lake Caravan Park Existing Silo Art Trail Shire Henty Hwy Proposed Silo Art Trail Agriculture, specifically grain production, is the primary source of income and employment in the area. Other forms Hopetoun of farming, education, retail, community service sectors and Woomelang Cronomby Tanks light industry also provide employment and income. Lake Albacutya Buloke is named after the ‘buloke’ or ‘bulloak tree’, Allocasua- Calder Hwy rina luehmannii, which is common in the area. Buloke Shire Rainbow Buloke Shire Council (Five Towns) Master Plan Beulah It is evident that Buloke is an active shire, with a good degree of planning and design work initiated across the shire. In particular, recommendations for Buloke Shire consider and draw upon the previously developed ‘Buloke Shire Council (Five Towns) Master Plan.’ The projects recommended here are intended to support the approach put forward in the Five Towns document by implementing clear directions as established during site visits in March 2019. Hindmarsh Whycheproof Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, community consultation was not Hwy Henty able to go forward as intended, and as such projects will require Shire community consultation prior to being undertaken. Jeparit Buloke Shire Interpretation West Wimmera Sunraysia Hwy Warracknabeal Charlton Interpretation panels provided at locations throughout the shire Shire Calder Hwy are successful examples of interpretation that lead the way for the BORDER - VICTORIA AUSTRALIA SOUTH region. These panels explore environmental, cultural and historic Nhill themes at each location. It is recommended that understanding of Kaniva Western Hwy these themes is developed further - actions recommended in the Serviceton Donald projects across the Buloke should recognise the value of these Western Hwy themes and support them to direct sense of place in both the built and natural environments. Alt. Route to Horsham via.Goroke Dimboola Natural Landscape Henty Hwy The Shire of Buloke is located in the western part of Victoria. It covers an area of 8,000 square kilometres. Buloke Shire is predominately covered by the Murray Mallee bioregion with patches of the Wimmera, Rupanyup Goldfields, Lowan Mallee and Victorian Riverina bioregions. The Wimmera Clay Plains and the sedimentary hills on the fringes of the Wimmera Hwy Box-Ironbark Forests of the Victorian Central Goldfields contribute to the environmental characteristics of the southern areas of the Shire, whilst the red sand dunes of the Mallee region. are dominant features of the north of the Shire. Wetlands are also a significant Goroke component of the natural characteristics of the Shire which include Wimmera Hwy Green Lake, Lake Buloke, Lake Tyrrell, Wooroonook Lake, Tchum Lake Charlegrark Lakes and Watchem Lake. The highly productive soils of the Lake Ratzcastle 5. Wimmera Hwy Apsley Newlands Lake Alt Route to Melbourne via. Edenhope Edenhope and Harrow. Opportunities across SA border Black Range Coonawarra Harrow State Park Wine Region Grampians National Park Dergholm Regional Strategy Town & Tourism Strategy Town Strategy Heart of the Mallee - Home of the Mallee Rally and Lake Tyrrell Sea Lake is a wheat-belt town in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria on the Calder Highway, 351 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The town is located centrally to a number of major Wimmera and Mallee regional towns including; Swan Hill, Mildura, Warracknabeal and Horsham. The town was named by early settler, Edward John Eyre, most likely due to its proximity to Lake Tyrrell, the