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title: Heritage Overlay HO849 Name Correction - 630 Calder Alternative Highway, Lockwood South council: greater-bendigo state: vic category: constraint classification: MINOR status: in-progress last_compiled: 2026-05-31 source_docs:

  • City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf

Heritage Overlay HO849 Name Correction - 630 Calder Alternative Highway, Lockwood South

This is a narrow heritage-administration change within Planning Scheme Amendment C285gben, not a new heritage assessment or a mapped expansion of the Heritage Overlay. The amendment proposes to replace the heritage place name “Hume’s Hovell” with “Residence” for HO849 at 630 Calder Alternative Highway, Lockwood South in the Schedule to Clause 43.01 of the Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

Background

Planning Scheme Amendment C285gben is a corrections amendment prepared by Greater Bendigo City Council to correct zoning and overlay mapping errors, remove redundant overlays, and correct planning scheme text across multiple suburbs, towns and localities in Greater Bendigo, including Lockwood South. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.32-33)

The amendment affects land in Bendigo, California Gully, Eaglehawk, Epsom, Flora Hill, Golden Gully, Golden Square, Jackass Flat, Kangaroo Flat, Kennington, Marong, Quarry Hill, Spring Gully, West Bendigo, Heathcote, Argyle, Big Hill, Lockwood South and Shelbourne. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.33)

Within that broader corrections package, the HO849 action is confined to the planning scheme ordinance: the Schedule to Clause 43.01 is proposed to replace the reference to “Hume’s Hovell” with “Residence” for the heritage place on land at 630 Calder Alternative Highway, Lockwood South. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

Analysis

Mechanism of the Correction

The operative mechanism is a text correction in the Heritage Overlay schedule, not the creation of a new Heritage Overlay map control for 630 Calder Alternative Highway. The explanatory report separately lists Heritage Overlay map changes such as deleting HO929, HO755 and HO525 from specified land, applying HO939 at 1320 Calder Highway, Marong, and applying HO940 to land around Carpenter Street, Emma Place, Paterson Street and Tennyson Street in Quarry Hill; HO849 is not listed as a map application or deletion in that map-change list. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.105-107)

The practical planning effect is therefore likely to be clarity rather than a changed permit trigger: the place remains HO849, but the scheduled place name would shift from “Hume’s Hovell” to the more generic name “Residence”. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

The agenda does not provide the HO849 citation, statement of significance, historical assessment, curtilage plan, permit history, or explanation for why “Hume’s Hovell” is considered incorrect. This means the available source supports the existence and wording of the proposed name correction, but not a deeper assessment of the heritage significance, historical attribution, or whether the corrected name changes interpretation of the place. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

Relationship to the Broader Corrections Amendment

The HO849 correction sits inside a multi-property amendment that Council describes as being primarily required to correct zoning anomalies or mapping errors affecting 40 properties that are either publicly owned, publicly managed, or privately owned. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

Council’s stated strategic reason for the corrections package is to improve the efficient operation and effectiveness of the planning scheme by removing unnecessary restrictions that originate from incorrectly applied or outdated planning controls. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

For heritage controls, the amendment takes two different approaches: it deletes or reduces Heritage Overlay controls where Council considers the affected land does not contain the relevant heritage fabric, and it applies new Heritage Overlay controls where Council considers protection is justified. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.109-112)

The HO849 action is different from both of those approaches because the source describes only a name replacement in Clause 43.01, not a deletion, reduction, new application, or new incorporated statement of significance for HO849. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.105-107)

Heritage Planning Consequences

The key planning consequence is administrative legibility: a corrected place name should reduce confusion when landowners, planners, heritage advisors and community members search the Heritage Overlay schedule for the place at 630 Calder Alternative Highway. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

Because the agenda does not identify any changed HO849 mapping, changed incorporated document, changed external paint control, changed internal alteration control, changed tree control, changed outbuilding/fence control, or changed prohibited-use provision, no such substantive control change can be confirmed from the available source. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.105-107)

The broader amendment report states that applying Heritage Overlays to identified heritage places supports the Planning and Environment Act 1987 objective of conserving and enhancing buildings, areas or places of scientific, aesthetic, architectural, historical or special cultural value; however, the HO849 item is framed as correcting a name, not as establishing new heritage significance. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.107, 112)

Submissions and Contested Issues

C285gben was publicly exhibited from 23 October 2025 to 22 December 2025, and Council received nine submissions. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.32)

Of the nine submissions, five opposed the amendment and four supported it; two submissions remained unresolved at the time of the 20 April 2026 agenda. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.32, 34)

The unresolved submissions related to vegetation protection within Bendigo Regional Park, not to the HO849 name correction at Lockwood South. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.32, 34-35)

The submission table identifies objections to removal of VPO2 at 20-28 Maccullagh Street, Golden Gully and CA190D Faugh-A-Ballagh Road, Spring Gully, plus withdrawn objections or requests relating to other properties; it does not identify a submission objecting to the HO849 name correction. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.34-35)

Current Status

As at the 20 April 2026 agenda, officers recommended that Council consider all submissions, endorse the officer response as the basis for Council’s submission to a Planning Panel, request the Minister for Planning to appoint a Planning Panel, and refer all submissions to that Panel under Part 8 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.33)

The explanatory report listed a directions hearing for the week starting 18 May 2026 and a Panel hearing for the week starting 15 June 2026. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.101)

A further Council report was expected after the Planning Panel’s recommendations to support a later decision on whether to adopt the amendment. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.32)

Dependencies

  • Blocks: No downstream land-use or infrastructure decision is shown as blocked by the HO849 name correction in the available agenda material. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)
  • Blocked by: The HO849 correction depends on the progression of Planning Scheme Amendment C285gben through the amendment process, including the requested Planning Panel step and later Council consideration following Panel recommendations. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.32-33)
  • Informed by: The available source does not include the HO849 citation, statement of significance, historical evidence, or officer explanation for the specific name correction from “Hume’s Hovell” to “Residence”. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)
  • Implements: The broader amendment is presented as implementing efficient and sustainable planning scheme administration by correcting anomalies and keeping planning scheme text accurate and up to date. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.33, 38)
  • Conflicts with: No conflict specific to the HO849 name correction is identified in the submissions summary or officer report. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.34-35)

No cross-jurisdictional infrastructure, agency-delivery, or adjacent-council dependency is identified for the HO849 name correction in the available source. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

The broader amendment was notified to relevant authorities and organisations, including those directed by the Minister for Planning, and supporting submissions included three public authorities and the Taungurung Land and Waters Council. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.34, 37)

Gaps in This Analysis

The main analytical gap is the absence of the HO849 heritage citation or statement of significance, which prevents verification of the original “Hume’s Hovell” attribution, the basis for the corrected “Residence” name, the heritage values of the place, and any site-specific permit implications. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

The second gap is the absence of the current Greater Bendigo Planning Scheme Clause 43.01 schedule entry for HO849, which prevents direct comparison between the existing statutory entry and the proposed amended entry. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, p.107)

The third gap is the absence of any later Panel report, Council adoption report, Ministerial approval notice, or gazettal notice for C285gben, which prevents confirmation that the HO849 name correction has proceeded beyond the April 2026 request-for-Panel stage. (Source: City-Greater-Bendigo-Council-Meeting-April-20-2026-Agenda.pdf, pp.32-33, 101)

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