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Darebin’s a liveable community
Darebin recently won a silver medal in the United Nations International Awards for Liveable Communities and we were particularly proud to showcase our work to…
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Darebin at a glance
The City of Darebin’s southern boundary is five kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD. The municipality extends north for another 25 kilometres, bordered west and east by…
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Northcote Town Hall and Civic Square
When Preston and Northcote Councils merged, the much loved, historic, Northcote Town Hall became underused. However, this building’s size and location gives Council the chance…
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Reservoir Civic Centre
Opened in 2003, the Reservoir Civic Centre houses health services, youth services and Council’s Customer Service Centre. It also provides meeting rooms and a hall…
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Diversity strengthens community
Darebin City Council believes the diversity of its community is one if its major strengths. A recent survey by the State Government showed 95.9 per…
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Community safety audits
Darebin’s Community Safety Audits aim to improve the physical environment. Council believes encouraging more people to walk in local streets and parks can have wide…
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Preston and Northcote structure planning
Darebin is currently involved in long range Structure Planning for its two largest traditional shopping areas: Northcote and Preston. The process is built on extensive…
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Redevelopment of All Nations Park
All Nations Park began urban life as a brick pit on the edge of a workers’ suburb, five kilometres from the heart of Melbourne, in…
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Darebin community building demonstration project
In 2002, Darebin was one of three metropolitan Councils selected to take part in a three year State Government project to ‘build community’ by involving…
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New international sports centre
Through lateral thinking and collaboration, Darebin has secured funding to build one of Melbourne’s most prominent sporting precincts, the Darebin International Sports Centre (DISC), which…
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Infrastructure, services, lifestyle LG engineers meeting the challenges
LG engineers meeting the challenges Over 500 engineering professionals from Councils across Australia attended the 2005 International Public Works conference staged in Adelaide from 21–25…
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Editorial – The growing skills shortage
We are all well aware that with the increasing retirement of baby boomers not only are we faced with an ageing community but a shrinking…
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