Bowenvale, Timor Road

Lot Area Zoning Price

1 762m² LDRZ $99,950.00

LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL ZONE

Shown on the planning scheme map as

LDRZ

with a number (if shown).

Purpose

To implement the Municipal Planning Strategy and the Planning Policy Framework.

To provide for low-density residential development on lots which, in the absence of reticulated

sewerage, can treat and retain all wastewater.

32.03-1 24 /01/2020

VC160

Table of uses

Section 1 - Permit not required

Condition

Use

No more than 10 persons may be accommodated away from their normal place of residence.

Bed and breakfast

At least 1 car parking space must be provided for each 2 persons able to be accommodated away from their normal place of residence.

Only one block remaining

Timor and Bowenvale are about 8 km north-west of Maryborough and 140 km north-west of Melbourne.

Both are in the vicinity of the junction of the Bet Bet and Timor Creeks, Bowenvale 2 km south-west of the junction and Timor north-east of the junction.

Timor is the earlier of the two, beginning as Coxtown when gold was found there in 1856. (Cox was a butcher and hotel keeper). Coxtown was apparently renamed after Timor Creek.

Within a few years of its discovery nearly all the easily mined gold had been found at Timor, although about 50 Chinese miners continued there. In the early 1860s a Ballarat mining company successfully mined a deeper lead, moving in the direction of Bowenvale, then known as Chinaman’s Flat. The Chinaman’s Flat school opened in 1864. In the 1870s Chinaman’s Flat was named Bowenvale, after Sir George Bowen, Governor of Victoria (1873-79).

A very affordable housing option, the land is flat and ready to build, add a residence as shown and you’re there with your own property to live in or use as an Air BnB.