- Title
- Stanhope
- Creator
- Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/61067
- Identifier
- vital:1168
- Identifier
- ISBN:1741524180
- Abstract
- Stanhope was described in the original 1988 small towns study as a manufacturing and service centre for an important irrigated dairying district. According to 2001 Census data, the role of manufacturing based on the dairy processing plant has remained significant. The same data reveals that this plant also continues to service the dairy farms in the district and provide significant jobs for these farms. The original study noted the importance of service clubs and other voluntary organisations in providing community capacity building to build and fund local facilities and amenities such as a community hall and a swimming pool. The recently established Stanhope and District Development Committee seems to be providing a similar function today for soft, or information technology infrastructure for business development and information-based transactions.The 1988 study also noted that Stanhope faced a range of issues and concerns about its ongoing viability, including its narrow dairying economic base, strong competition from larger service centres, constraints on residential growth due to lack of facilities, and closure of V/Line freight services. This update identifies that essentially the same concerns remain.; B1
- Publisher
- Melbourne, Australia Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment
- Relation
- Towns in Time 2001 - Analysis: Incorporating the study of small towns in Victoria revisited Chapter 15 p. 103-120
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Stanhope; Towns; Victoria; Farms; Manufacturing; Dairy
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