Bendigo West electorate office of 27 years closes for the last time

New security measures were among a number of reasons for the shift from Panton Street in Golden Square, Ms Edwards said.

She said parliamentary services also identified accessibility issues.

Steps and narrow doorways restricted access to the deputy speaker's offices and the meeting room.

Ms Edwards said access to the meeting room or office was near impossible for a person using a wheelchair.

She said there had been instances when meetings had to be conducted in the foyer.

Ms Edwards said she generally preferred to travel to wheelchair users, whenever possible.

She will be the first Member for Bendigo to work out of the new premises at Kangaroo Flat.

The Lockwood Road office is a new build.

Ms Edwards said she and her staff were sad to be leaving the Golden Square shopping precinct.

She said the precinct was an important part of the community and was concerned that it would be losing a long-term tenant.

"Hopefully someone else will be able to come into there," Ms Edwards said.

But she was looking forward to the move, which is expected to take a week.

"Kangaroo Flat is one of the growth areas in my electorate," Ms Edwards said.

The new office is near public transport and a number of shops and businesses.

Former Members for Bendigo Max Turner and Bob Cameron worked out of the Panton Street office before Ms Edwards.

She said she and her staff had found mementos from throughout those 27 years as they prepared to move.

The electorate office officially opened in late 1992, following Mr Turner's election, according to Ms Edwards.

She said Mr Cameron, who served his entire term in the Golden Square office, had taken home a number of boxes filled with mementos from his term from 1996 - 2010.

"If those walls could talk, what stories could be told," Ms Edwards said.

She said the office had been her second home for 20 years, having worked for Mr Cameron for 11 years before she was elected in 2010.

The Panton Street office has closed. Ms Edwards said staff would be unable to receive calls for the next week, during the move.

The office at 16 Lockwood Road will have a new phone number, which Ms Edwards said she would publicise once confirmed.

She suggested anyone needing assistance from her office email maree.edwards@parliament.vic.gov.au, or send a letter to her new post box at PO BOX 1238, Kangaroo Flat 3555.

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