Becoming lost just got harder

By Danielle Perkins
Updated November 2 2012 - 9:54am, first published June 1 2008 - 4:02pm

A SUBURBAN boundary has changed and roads and waterways have been given new names.Ballarat City Council adopted six naming proposals at a council meeting last week, aiming to make features and property addresses clearly identifiable.The new names will ensure houses can be found in emergencies, trades and delivery people know where they are going and visitors can more easily find a particular location.Councillors adopted the changes after all had been on public display, with only one attracting submissions from ratepayers in favour of the proposal.The boundary between Lake Gardens and Alfredton has been changed to allow a proposed subdivision to be wholly contained in one suburb.The former boundary between the two suburbs ran along a disused railway line and Sturt St but it has now been moved further north and east around the Ballarat Golf Club, giving the new subdivision an Alfredton address.A road in Alfredton, running between Longley and Gillies streets, will now be called Jelbart Place, after the family which had a long and close association with the former Methodist Church which adjoins the road.In Black Hill, running south from Maddern St, a road will now be called Mopoke Lane in anticipation of new subdivisions which are expected in the future. The name recognises the former Mopoke United quartz mine which lay just west of the road. Nearby, a part of Maddern St will now be known as Duggan St to match up with the generally accepted name of the small section between Howitt and Sim streets.Meanwhile, an unnamed watercourse at Bonshaw and Delacombe will now be known as Banyule Creek while another watercourse which runs through Alfredton, Delacombe and Smythes Creek will be called Kensington Creek.

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