Myers St Bendigo Housing Project

Uniting and St Andrew’s Uniting Church are partnering with the Victorian Government to help deliver safe and secure long-term housing for people in housing stress in Bendigo.

Details

Over 70 new dwellings

Central Bendigo CBD location

Environmentally sustainable design

Giving back to the community

Addressing the need for community housing in Bendigo.

St Andrew’s congregation has been a part of the Bendigo community since 1854 when they were gifted the land on Myers Street. The congregation benefited from this gift and so, since their 150th anniversary in 2004, the congregation has been trying to find a way to give back to the community.

Currently there are hundreds of households across Bendigo who are waiting for community housing and a safe and secure place to call home. We hope this development will help to fill this need by providing a large number of high–quality, modern, architecturally designed units.

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Our community housing development

Our development comprises of 73 new units at 24 Myers Street, through to 90 and 96 Mollison Street, on the under–utilised land around St Andrew’s Uniting Church.

The build includes 49 two–bedroom and 24 one–bedroom units over four to five levels close to a range of services and amenities including the city centre, public transport, supermarkets and parks.

Check out this virtual tour of our beautiful new one and two bedroom apartments at Myers St.

Every apartment features a fully appointed kitchen with built-in electrical appliances and generous cupboard space; a concealed European laundry; a large bathroom; carpeted bedrooms with built in robes; timber floors throughout kitchen and living areas; entry security; reverse cycle heating and cooling.

Upper story apartments feature generous balconies, while ground floor apartments have their own private, secure courtyards.

The site

Retained community hall, the church and stables buildings
Preserved the stand of gum trees central to the site and replace the gum tree near Mollison Street with a stand of Blackwood trees
Demolished the car park as well as disused and under–used buildings on site
Constructed two new buildings of four to five storeys containing 73 homes for community housing
Created a new path through the site linking Mollison and Myers Streets
New landscaping to the Mollison and Myers Streets frontages and within the site
Included 21 car parks and 81 bicycle parks within the site.

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Our partnership

This project is being funded by Homes Victoria as part of the Victorian Government’s $5.3 billion Big Housing Build and delivered in partnership with the St Andrew’s Congregation, Uniting Housing, and Uniting Victoria and Tasmania.