It will be the first childcare centre based in the rapidly expanding area, which is home to an increasing number of young families and a burgeoning kindergarten and primary school population.

According to designs submitted to the City of Ballarat for a planning application, the childcare centre would be built across two blocks at numbers two and four in Raglan Street, just off Howe Street.

Two existing houses would be demolished and the sites cleared for construction of the centre, which the planning application papers state would be open weekdays from 8am to 6pm.

The 100 children would be housed across four rooms including a kindergarten room with a large outdoor play area and several large existing trees will be retained across the site.

When complete the centre will remain as two allotments, one vacant, that front on to Raglan Street, albeit with revised areas.

The new centre is another to add to the growing list of new, purpose-built childcare facilities in the city's north and west.

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According to the 2016 census, there were 4430 people living in Miners Rest, an increase of 11 per cent since 2011, with the population projected to grow another 42 per cent in the next 15 years - and almost half of households in Miners Rest include children, much higher than the Ballarat average.

The primary school has about three times more children now than nine years ago, and is undergoing a $21 million expansion.

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The city's rapidly growing population, including many new arrivals from Melbourne and interstate, is driving the childcare boom and putting pressure on centres to find enough trained staff.

In the past six months, three large purpose-built centres, each catering for more than 100 children, have either opened or begun construction in the rapidly growing Sebastopol/Delacombe/Smythes Creek/Winter Valley corridor and some are struggling to secure the staff they need.

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