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Business and Community Development

Contact for:

  • Industry & Business - Manufacturing - Retail - Agriculture

  • Industrial, Commercial and Residential Land

  • Economic Development

James Goldsmith ( Gonga )

Project Officer

Buloke Shire Council

Ph: 5478 0173

  Mob: 0448 802 400 Email: jgoldsmith@buloke.vic.gov.au

Responsible for Economic Development in the Buloke Shire and has knowledge of, or contacts for :

  • State & Federal Government departments and grants.

  • Water Bores for fresh and saline ground water.

  • Production of sea weed, salt water fish and fodder from saline ground water.

  • Buloke Shire Council incentives for new business and industry.

  • Buloke Shire Council 3 year rate holiday for new houses and new commercial premises.

  • Industrial land & industrial Estates.

  • Housing and residential land.

  • Intensive Agricultural Industries - Turkeys, Poultry, Pigs, Squab, Quail, Sheep, Emu and meat processing.

  • Feed lots for sheep and cattle.

  • Sunrise Industries Biodiesel, Olives Farm Forestry, Mineral Sands, Fish Farming and alternative crops.

  • Contacts for Buloke Shire Councils Economic Development Strategy.Industry zoning.

  • Contact point for Sister Council, Hobson Bay City Council.

  • Working with community service clubs and community forums to develop community projects.

  • Off road racing events in Donald & Sea Lake.

  • Tourism and tourism development including the Buloke tourism Board and production of local tourism brochures..

  • Group Self Build Project (no deposit housing - assisting people in rental housing to build and own their own home.

  • Recreational Lakes - Green Lake (Sea Lake), Tchum Lake (Birchip), Watchem Lake, Lake Wooroonook (Charlton), Donald Caravan Park Lake (Donald).

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