White Wedding Dress: truth behind tradition
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
| Bendigo Weekly | 10-Jun-2011 3pm
The Bendigo Art Gallery's spectacular blockbuster, due to open on August 1, will reveal that commerce as much as culture is behind the white wedding dress.
The White Wedding Dress will premiere a showing of gowns and wedding paraphernalia dating back 200 years, which are from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Alongside these garments, the Bendigo Art Gallery has curated a supplementary show of wedding costume from Australia's colonial period through to contemporary gowns by designers such as Akira Isogawa and Toni Maticevski.
The V&A curator Edwina Ehrmann promises the "romantic, glamorous and extravagant".
BAG's director Karen Quinlan is steering us towards approaching the wedding dress as a way of understanding fashion history in the context of the broader culture.
How the white wedding dress became a "symbol of romantic love as well as of purity", will be traced from the early 1800s, with "defining moments" pointed out along the way.
One such defining moment, possibly the most important, was the marriage of 20-year-old Queen Victoria in 1840.
Because she chose to be a bride first, and head-of-state second, she eschewed the velvet robes and diadems, and went for white silk-satin and orange blossom.
It had been, up until then, quite common to be married in a coloured gown, but once the Queen had chosen white, it "became the norm".
By the mid-1870s, fashion dictated that trains were de rigueur, for the drama of it. By the time the first bridal fair was held in 1881, the whole bridal industry had kicked in: dressmakers, jewellers, florists, stationers, photographers, even furniture-makers displayed their wares, and the tradition of the white wedding swelled a little more.
The show will take us through the austerity of the post-War years, when ingenuity had to compensate for the shortage of materials.
It will document the rise of the haute couture designers, and even the heyday of women's liberation, when it became fashionable , if you married at all, to wear something that almost parodied the traditional white gown.
As Bendigo dressmaker Joan Hooper, who will give a talk as part of the exhibition's program, says, "The thing about a wedding dress is that you are likely to use fabrics that are special.
"I would have loved to be able just to touch the dress worn by Kate Middleton when she married Prince William - it was magnificent."
The White Wedding Dress: 200 Years of Wedding Fashions will open at the Bendigo Art Gallery on August 1 and run until November 6.
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
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