Where should the Beaufort Weighbridge Building live?

Published on 03 September 2021

Council is seeking the best ideas for the location and use of the Beaufort Weighbridge building.

The historic building, currently located on the same site as the Mechanics Institute, will need to move.

Beaufort and Skipton Health Service is looking to redevelop the Havelock Street Mechanics Institute, but the Weighbridge Building is not part of the future plan for that site.

Pyrenees Shire Mayor, Cr Damian Ferrari, said that Council was keen to find the best location for the historic building.

“We’re really hoping the local community can contribute to the discussion of where it might be relocated, as they probably understand best where it might go,” Cr Ferrari said.

“It’s not the first time the building’s been moved. It’s had many different locations and uses since it was first built by the Shire of Ripon in 1874 to house the weighbridge scales,” he said.

The small building’s original location is where the Beaufort Rotunda now stands. It was then moved in 1903 to become a storage shed for Wotherspoon Bros. By the 1950s it was being used as a shelter for visitors to the Beaufort Cemetery, before it was relocated to Main Lead to be used as a tool shed. Then, in 2005, it was donated back to the people of Beaufort by the Cellante family. After its restoration it was placed at its current site in 2008.

The survey, which closes at 5pm, Friday 8 October 2021, can be completed online at www.pyrenees.vic.gov.au/Community/Survey-Beaufort-Weighbridge-Building.

Please call us on 1300 797 363 and we can send you a paper copy of the survey.