City of Ballarat

The City of Ballarat is a local government area in the west of the state of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of  and, in June 2018, had a population of 107,325. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Ballarat urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include Buninyong, Waubra, Learmonth and Addington. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ballaarat, Shire of Ballarat, Borough of Sebastopol and parts of the Shire of Bungaree, Shire of Buninyong, Shire of Grenville and Shire of Ripon.

The City is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 105,471.

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of three wards and nine councillors, with three councillors per ward elected to represent each ward.
The current Council, elected in 2016, in order of election by ward, is:

Administration and governance
The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Ballarat Town Hall Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Ballarat, and its service centre in Buninyong.

The council's main offices are in a modern extension behind the Town Hall called The Phoenix. In 2009 the council voted to move to a new headquarters at Civic Hall on Mair Street, which would turn the heritage listed Town Hall building into a public general purpose venue.

Localities 

 Addington
 Alfredton
 Ascot
 Bakery Hill
 Ballarat Central
 Ballarat East
 Ballarat North
 Black Hill
 Bo Peep
 Bonshaw
 Brown Hill
 Buninyong
 Bunkers Hill
 Burrumbeet
 Canadian
 Cardigan
 Cardigan Village
 Chapel Flat
 Coghills Creek
 Delacombe
 Durham Lead
 Ercildoune
 Eureka
 Glen Park
 Glendaruel
 Glendonnell
 Golden Point
 Gong Gong
 Invermay
 Invermay Park
 Lake Gardens
 Lake Wendouree
 Learmonth
 Lucas
 Magpie
 Miners Rest
 Mitchell Park
 Mount Clear
 Mount Helen
 Mount Pleasant
 Mount Rowan
 Nerrina
 Newington
 Redan
 Scotchmans Lead
 Scotsburn
 Sebastopol
 Soldiers Hill
 Tourello
 Warrenheip
 Weatherboard
 Wendouree
 Windermere
 Winter Valley

Sister cities 
The City of Ballarat's sister cities are:

 Inagawa, Hyōgo, Japan
 Ainaro, East Timor

See also 
 List of localities (Victoria)
 Ballarat

References

External links 
Ballarat City Council official website
Metlink local public transport map
Link to Land Victoria interactive maps

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