04 PUBLIC Streets and Routes

Page 41 of 80 Introduction 04 Public Streets, lanes, arcades, bridges This section of the Plan and overpasses are defined as includes the following: public streets and routes in this streets Plan. Waterfront promenades Public streets and and creek corridor are defined routes overview as public spaces in this Plan. Overview of context and and routes directions that inform the The recommended principles design principles and and guidelines apply to all recommended design publicly accessible routes in guidelines for public streets Docklands regardless of and routes in Docklands. ownership status. This Plan All background information advocates for the refinement of is summarised and mapped D oCKLANDS has a permeable, materials and furniture palettes in Appendix 2. in the Docklands area to ensure well-connected network consistency with the central D esign principles city streetscape qualities. and guidelines of public routes. Recommended design Streets make up a significant guidelines to achieve portion of the public realm in comfortable and seamless Docklands. As well as catering streets and routes. Design for various forms of movement, principles and guidelines streets and routes provide in Docklands accord with space for incidental cafes, Melbourne’s existing kiosks, seats and canopies that streetscape design policies. contribute to public life. Streets These established policies and routes are and should be support identifiable and treated as important public consistent design standards places. Streets contribute to the and diverse and active character of place and can be public life. destinations in themselves. D esign check lists An illustrative example of design principles applied to a primary street, a summary of street design reference documents and sample of a detailed illustrative street standard from the companion document, Docklands Design and Construction Standards for Public Infrastructure Works (City of Melbourne, 2012).

Note: Images in this document are provided for illustrative purposes only and are subject to change. Base maps require periodic review and revision to accord with current conditions in the built environment and revised proposed development Residential streets and lanes at Yarra’s Edge. plans and masterplans.

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DATE. 21.08.2012 JOB SIZE. 297mm(h) x 210mm(w) JOB NO. REV. CLIENT. JOB NAME. 028081r07_COME_Docklands Public Realm Plan 93 MONTAGUE ST. STH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 AUSTRALIA PH. (03) 9686 7766 | W. WWW.OD.COM.AU | E. [email protected] © OPTIMO 2012 Page 42 of 80 S treets and routes overview Introduction

Melbourne’s central area (known as the Hoddle Grid) dates back to 1837 and spans an area 2 km in length and 1 km in width. Although grid plans are common to many cities, Melbourne’s grid is highly stylised in its scale and formal geometry, giving the city centre a pervasive individual character. The formal grid of primary (30 m width) and little streets (10 m width) is divided by a network of intimate, pedestrian- scaled lanes and arcades.

Several of the 30 m wide east-west city streets (Collins, Bourke, La Trobe and Dudley streets) extend across the Spencer Street railway lines, linking the central city to Docklands. Laid across these is a less regular array of new secondary streets in Docklands. Generally, these cross-streets occur at more frequent intervals and are 16-18 m in width. As a result, Docklands has a permeable, Revitalised Swanston Street, Melbourne. well-connected network of public routes.

Since the 1980s, a number of initiatives have led to substantial improvements in the quality of street environment and street life in the central city. Physical improvements have included footpath widening, upgrading paving to local bluestone, a lighting strategy, a ‘signature’ street furniture palette and a cafe furniture standard. Special initiatives to improve street life include the rejuvenation of priority laneways, lunchtime street closures and permanent laneway closures and an active edges policy. The positive effect of these policies is evident in the growing numbers of people enjoying the central city streets as documented in the ‘Places for People’ studies. This Plan recommends that Melbourne’s distinctive and high standard of streetscape Freeway/arterial roads design is applied throughout Docklands. Domain tunnel Primary streets Possible future connection

Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne. Fig 4.01 Inner Melbourne arterial road and street network, 2012.

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A ccess Docklands: A Plan for the • Bourke Street pedestrian overpass is a poor gateway to Docklands due to level changes, North Melbourne Docklands Transport Network Train Station inadequate shelter, poor signage, inadequate To Errol Street, North Melbourne Access Docklands: A Plan for the Docklands cycling infrastructure and inactive streetscapes. To Dynon Road Transport Network (Places Victoria, City of Dudley Street - • Wayfinding and signage at Docklands can Link to Queen Victoria Market Melbourne with UrbanTrans, 2012) includes be confusing. & Flagstaff Gardens comprehensive baseline data and a range of Moonee Ponds Creek F uture E-Gate important future strategic directions and actions • Poor crossings (wait times, competing use, Trail Site for Docklands regarding water and land-based environment) at key parts of walking and Latrobe Street movement in Docklands and should be cycling networks in Docklands. - City to referenced. Access Docklands supports the Harbour link • Significant walking distances within the principles outlined in this Plan and Transport Dockland area can be exacerbated by large Strategy Planning for Future Growth (City of staircases, a lack of shelter, passive ground Lonsdale Melbourne, 2012). Street floor uses and lack of interesting street life. Melbourne Port The following is a summary of the main The Access Docklands: A Plan for the Bourke challenges identified inAccess Docklands: Docklands Transport Network (Places Victoria, Street A Plan for the Docklands Transport Network City of Melbourne with UrbanTrans, 2012) has (Places Victoria, City of Melbourne with identified a number of short, medium and Collins UrbanTrans, 2012). long-term recommendations to address these Street challenges and a short-term action plan. • Forecast growth in population will place significant demands on transport Flinders infrastructure networks. This Plan provides design guidance to improve Street the overall quality of public streetscapes to Lorimer Street • Wurundjeri Way is the primary local access benefit pedestrians and cyclists. Northbank road for Docklands, yet it is also a major Promenade east-west arterial route carrying significant volumes of traffic. Seafarers Bridge • Walking, cycling and public transport connections between Docklands and areas

to the north, south and west are poor. To South Melbourne • Rail infrastructure, arterial roads and the stadium represent barriers to movement Ingles Street between Docklands and the surrounding areas. To Port Melbourne/Albert Park • The Docklands local road network has limited Key future through connections, as much of the precinct connections is surrounded by water, Melbourne Port land E xisting connection uses, rail infrastructure and arterial roads. Potential new connection • Sustainable transport and walkability Committed connections options may be challenged by unfavorable Level changes conditions such as full tram capacity at peak times, poor climatic conditions, and unprotected streetscapes. Fig 4.02 Existing and potential local connections, 2012.

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Provide a range of street types to support Docklands streets have been arranged into different uses and contribute to a functional, four types: vibrant and high quality street network. • arterial roads

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A rterial roads S econdary streets

1.1 Improve the quality of experience for 1.3 Design secondary streets primarily as a pedestrians and cyclists including at main setting for pedestrian and cyclist movement, pedestrian crossings, on arterial roads. shopping, socialising, recreation, art and architecture and ensure they provide links Docklands is bound by several key arterial roads: to key public facilities and spaces. Wurundjeri Way, Footscray Road, City Link and the Westgate Freeway. Secondary streets are characterised by mixed use including retail at ground level. These play The arterial roads are an integral part of Victoria’s a significant role in supporting community life strategic transport network. The primary purpose and fostering local identity as they provide of these roads is to enable efficient freight and opportunities for a community focus. They also commuter movements across the broader road provide connections to community facilities and network. These roads are owned and managed key public spaces including the waterfront. by VicRoads. Arterial roads pose significant challenges to pedestrian and cyclist movement and amenity. Upgrades to pedestrian and cycle links at Charles Grimes Bridge, Footscray Road, Harbour Esplanade and around the Docklands stadium are recommended in Access Docklands: S mall streets and pedestrian areas A Plan for the Docklands Transport Network 1.4 Create more small streets, lanes and (Places Victoria, City of Melbourne with pedestrian areas as new developments UrbanTrans, 2012) occur, ensuring pedestrian movement and links are prioritised to assist the overall connectivity of the public realm. Primary streets Small streets and lanes often contribute to the 1.2 Ensure the primary east-west street permeability of an area and provide intimate and extensions are designed to resemble the human-scale spaces and a diverse pedestrian original street sections visually, spatially, experience. Small streets can also offer protection compositionally and materially to link from extremes of weather. Typically, small streets Docklands to the Central City. carry low numbers of vehicles, mostly for local access, or have partial or full closure to vehicle The primary streets in Docklands extend the traffic and/or low speed restrictions in a dedicated central city Hoddle Grid. These 30 m wide shared zone environment. streets play a significant role in the life and identity of the city. The width allows for multiple Pedestrian focused areas linked to the street transport modes. Typically, they are addressed network, such as the stadium concourse, also by a diverse mix of ground floor land uses and supplement the public street system. include two-way vehicular lanes, tram routes, CoM Bluestone Palette on-road bicycle lanes, wide footpaths and large Shared zones are designed to prioritise pedestrians CoM Bluestone Palette (Future) Bluestone Palette - non standard street trees. The streets have been prioritised and public life. The palette and landscape Bluestone Palette - non standard (Future) Asphalt Palette in the city’s street hierarchy and have warranted treatments create a strong differentiation from Asphalt Palette (Future) Special Palette a high quality bluestone paving palette and traditional vehicle priority streets to remind drivers Special Palette (Future) bespoke furniture, lighting palettes and that they should proceed cautiously and slowly. substantive trees.

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Ensure the success of the central city streetscapes continues into Docklands providing a seamless 2.1 Provide a unified approach to the The bluestone palette is recommended in the network of welcoming public streets and routes that have a distinctly ‘Melbourne’ essence. design of each street consistent with the following situations: standard materials palette for Melbourne. • primary streets (Collins Street, Bourke Street, Docklands Drive, La Trobe Street, A strategic approach to the materials palette Harbour Esplanade, Lorimer Street) for streets has been developed and is outlined below. The implementation of the palette aims • pedestrian-only streets, arcades and lanes to embed a long-lasting, legible and distinctly (Hubbick Lane) Melbourne streetscape. A consistent treatment • shared streets that may be pedestrian-only will also ensure that streets in Docklands spaces at certain times of the day or evening connect seamlessly with the central city. • footpaths abutting promenade and The standard materials palette should be waterfront areas used for all new and future modifications to • special areas such as streets with heritage- existing streets. listed built form such as Village Street (north) and Aurora Lane. All new streets that are to be transferred to City of Melbourne ownership must use the bluestone palette or bluestone / asphalt palette (City of Melbourne standard).

Bluestone kerbs and channels will be a consistent feature throughout Docklands.

Bluestone palette City of Melbourne standard

Bluestone has become an important part of Melbourne’s identity and provides a consistent foreground to diverse urban movement, activities and built form. As a local stone, bluestone expresses an authentic sense of place. The use of Bluestone palette for primary street (at corner of Bourke bluestone throughout Docklands will strengthen and Village streets). connections to the established city centre. Sawn bluestone is very durable and its smooth, flat surface improves footpath accessibility.

The bluestone palette refers to the use of bluestone for footpaths, kerbs and channels in accordance with the Docklands Design and Construction Standards for Public Infrastructure Works (City of Melbourne, 2012). Collins Street in Victoria Harbour with standard materials palette for primary streets, Melbourne.

Bluestone palette suitable for special pedestrian route (Centre Place, Melbourne).

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Bluestone / Asphalt palette Non-standard palette 2.2 Ensure the choice and location of • Use the simplest standard applicable to City of Melbourne standard materials and street furniture assist avoid unnecessary maintenance and ensure Some streets and routes in Docklands may the overall composition of streets. long-term functionality. Areas which are set back from the waterfront warrant a non-standard palette. The design • Maintain consistent materials, layout and • Use the same materials and details in private and form the inner grain of Docklands are often of any non-standard material for streetscapes geometry regardless of staging of works and public streets. varied in terms of street types, activities, uses must be agreed and approved by the future to protect the street’s visual character and and interfaces. The appropriate use of bluestone owner (City of Melbourne). The following • Refer to the Docklands Design and support legibility and predictability. and/or asphalt for the palette in this area guidelines are recommended: Construction Standards for Public Space requires assessment as conditions become clear. • Minimise clutter and group streetscape and Infrastructure Works (2012) for standard • provide a consistent approach to the palette elements together to ensure legibility and functional and spatial design criteria and throughout non-standard area The bluestone / asphalt palette refers to the usability of the street. approved standard materials and elements. use of bluestone for kerbs and channels and • materials should reflect the type of asphalt for footpaths in accordance with the activities, uses and characteristics which are Docklands Design and Construction unique to the area. Consistent choice of Standards for Public Infrastructure Works paving materials, details and furniture should (City of Melbourne, 2012). enhance the existing character of the area • when a non-standard palette is used,

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Design public streets to contribute 3.1 Prioritise walking, cycling and public 3.2 Increase greening in streets. to sustainable outcomes and maximise transport in streets to reduce the dominance environmental values. of vehicles and minimise greenhouse gas • Increase tree planting and vegetation to emissions and local air pollution. reduce the extent of hard surfaces and improve canopy cover to reduce the heat Streets provide significant opportunities island effect - aim to achieve 40% canopy to contribute to sustainability outcomes. The following recommendations are cover in all new streets. Their design should encourage walking and provided: cycling, minimise pressure on non-renewable • Choose species that will perform well in resources and enhance the existing natural • Identify and fill in the missing links in the Docklands and increase diversity in the environment. Life-cycle analysis to maximise cycling network (such as Moonee Ponds tree population. environmental outcomes should be factored Creek and North Bank connections). • Choose vegetation that responds to local into design decision-making. • Improve crossing times for pedestrians conditions and encourages diverse birdlife and cyclists at arterial roads (Wurundjeri Way and insect habitats. Streets are important landscape features within and Footscray Road). the urban environment. They accommodate • Ensure adequate soil volumes and • Improve bicycle and pedestrian access where tree planting and other landscape treatments soil moisture is provided to enable healthy there is a change in level (for example, the that provide pedestrian amenity and improve tree growth. Bourke Street pedestrian overpass). biodiversity and microclimate. Streets can also • Use permeable pavements where applicable contribute to sustainability outcomes through • Reduce conflicts between pedestrians, to enhance street tree growth. integrated functional solutions such as permeable cyclists and vehicles by providing designated paving and tree pits that filter and harvest storm cycle lanes. • Encourage Water Sensitive Urban Design for water run-off. stormwater harvesting in streets. Effective tree canopy cover, City Square and Swanston • Provide generous allocations of space Street, Melbourne. which ensure the design of streets prioritise Refer to the Urban Forest Strategy (City of pedestrian and cycle movements. Melbourne, 2012) for more detail on targets. • Ensure truck turning circles, service vehicle requirements and car park entries do not have an adverse impact on street design. • Provide greater opportunities for recreational cycling in Docklands. • Facilitate walking through footpath widening and raised crossings.

Water sensitive tree pit collects storm water Cycle paths have been prioritised along the from Little Collins Street, Melbourne. recently-modified Harbour Esplanade.

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Ensure all building interfaces with public • Consider the macro scale (the appearance 4.3 Reduce and manage parking to streets contribute positively to the life of of the building from afar) and the micro scale encourage walking, cycling and other the street. (the sensorial experience materials and uses that are conducive to vibrant streets. detailing provide to the pedestrian) in the • Ensure parking entries don’t detract from 4.1 Encourage ground-level tenancies that building form and facade. pedestrian amenity and street interface. contribute to the life and character of • Avoid large expanses of floor to ceiling the street. glazing as this does not provide adequate • Minimise the impact of podium car parking on variation or interest. streets by sleeving the car park in active uses • Provide ground-level tenancies with and/or animated treatments at first-floor level active frontages, such as retail or cafes, • Avoid the use of opaque, translucent or other and above. to public streets as a minimum to meet the non-transparent glazing treatments that performance guidelines in the Melbourne restrict visibility between internal and external Planning Scheme of a minimum 80% active spaces. Whilst transparency is encouraged, street frontage for key areas of public it is also important to make provision in the activity and 50% active street frontage for design of facades for areas that require all other areas. privacy or uses that will result in unsightly • Ensure streets provide adequate space for views from the street. In all instances, however, uses such as outdoor dining. completely blank facades must be avoided. • Provide ground-floor edges which • Avoid large banks of services with bland accommodate a wide range of uses and facade treatments. Service areas can still provide a fine grain to streets. Fine-grain provide a positive interface with the street if spaces relate to the scale of our bodies and carefully considered. For example, the green offer a variety of sensory stimulations that wall on the ANZ building service wall provides can be appreciated at a pedestrian pace. a high level of visual interest. • Design external facades (facade depth, colour, fenestrations, vertical or horizontal modulation, detailed articulation, texture 4.2 Encourage passive surveillance and materiality) so they contribute to the opportunities to increase the safety human scale of the street and visual interest of public streets. for pedestrians. • The types of uses and facade treatments particularly in the lower levels of buildings can have a significant impact on the safety of the street. • Locate windows and balconies to overlook the street. • Sleeve car parks, service areas and other non-active uses with active uses to support street safety.

Animated and pedestrian-focused lane Contemporary lane with concentrated characterised by small-scale eateries, bespoke retail focus, varied facade treatments and retail outlets, residential entry at Centre Place bluestone palette at Albert Coates Lane, and bluestone palette, Melbourne. Queen Victoria centre, Melbourne.

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Design streets with high standards 5.3 Ensure safety, accessibility and 5.6 Provide a choice of protected routes strategies for protection could be considered of amenity, comfort and convenience. visibility for all users including disabled until street trees have time to grow or awnings and non-ambulant people. A strategy that has been successfully provided with buildings. 5.1 Where possible, provide canopies along implemented in many waterfront cities such • Keep things predictable to support access building frontages on streets particularly as Hamburg (Germany), Brighton (UK) and The water promenades and La Trobe and by people with visual impairments, especially on key pedestrian routes. Scarborough (UK) is to provide an alternative Collins Street bridge extensions are particularly along main pedestrian routes through the protected route(s) in the ‘hinterland’ to the challenging in terms of amenity due to the space; avoid trip hazards. The height of buildings in Docklands can exposed waterfront promenades which may exposed location, little protection from built form exacerbate wind conditions and present an • Ensure adequate visibility through spaces. be used during inclement weather. The plan and challenges to street tree growth in containers. below shows the locations of Docklands inhuman scale. Use of canopies is important • Provide even, glare-free lighting. to ameliorate wind, provide shelter from rain streets in the ‘hinterland’ near the waterfront Routes that require a greater level of and sun and encourage a more human-scale • Design to disability standards to ensure where weather protection could be improved. protection include: environment to the street. accessibility to all areas. Park Avenue, Caravel Lane, Aquitania Way and Bourke Street (west) already provide protected • Collins Street (Victoria Harbour to Southern • Provide canopies or awnings on buildings alternative routes to the waterfront. Cross Station) at an appropriate level (less than 5 m from • Bourke Street overpass the ground). 5.4 Provide amenities that support pedestrian Protection from sun, wind and rain is important • Harbour Esplanade and bicycle use such as compliant seats, for providing a comfortable environment in bike racks, drinking fountains bins and Docklands. Most street trees in Docklands are • new residential frontages onto waterfront public toilets. juvenile and yet to establish a canopy of promenades (NewQuay West and Yarra’s 5.2 Establish a continuous and consistent sufficient size to provide adequate shade or Edge West) street tree structure. Refer to the Docklands Design and shelter. The staged development exacerbates • La Trobe Street. Construction Standards for Public Infrastructure this condition and in some cases interim Street trees make a significant contribution to Works for guidance on number and location of the amenity and comfort of streets. Providing street furniture. shade and shelter, trees improve visual amenity by contributing to the character and seasonal variations. The improvements to air quality and temperature offered through street trees 5.5 Ensure legibility of the streetscape improve the health and wellbeing and therefore and provide consistent signage and livability of a street. wayfinding to assist pedestrian movement.

• Refer to the Melbourne Docklands Tree • Design streets to enhance clarity of uses Strategy and the Urban Forest Strategy (City (areas for outdoor dining, pedestrian-only of Melbourne, 2012) for the selection of tree areas, shared zones). species to suit site specific growing conditions, long term aspirations for street character and • Minimise clutter to assist the legibility and amenity and maintenance practicalities. usability of the street. • Refer to the Docklands Design and Construction Standards for Public Infrastructure Works for guidance on directional signage for streets and waterways.

Fig 4.05 Cities such as Brighton (UK) and Scarborough (UK) have intimate and protected routes in the ‘hinterland’ of the primary waterfront. (see Figure 4.06).

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5.7 Ensure streets and routes are open to Create a diversity of street activities and uses the sky. to contribute to street life and community.

Open air spaces work well in Melbourne most 6.1 Design public streets as a setting for of the year and an ‘open to the sky’ policy is movement, shopping, socialising, recreation, favoured for streets rather than an enclosed art and architecture rather than just as mall-type environment. Overhead bridges are movement corridors. also discouraged where they take public life and activity from the street level. This is not The design of streets can play a major role in to say that weather protection might not be fostering successful communities. Streets are provided in the form of canopies or glazed spaces for people to connect and socialise and atriums to fulfill a particular function. streets can be vibrant public spaces.

• Foster a diversity of street uses to attract a rich blend of city users and contribute to street life such as: - outdoor dining areas - fruit and flower stands - buskers - children’s play elements. • Consider use of shared zones or pedestrian only streets in suitable locations to provide greater opportunities for street life.

6.2 Locate community facilities where they enhance streets as local centres or act as connectors between precincts.

• Locate community facilities on Harbour Esplanade as part of the redevelopment so they can serve adjacent existing and future precincts. • Concentrate community facilities at emerging local centres, in particular: - Docklands Drive/NewQuay Central - Merchant Street/Bourke Street.

Fig 4.06 Enhance protected routes that run parallel to the waterfronts and offer a choice of journey.

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Ensure the street and route network is 7.2 Improve transport links to the North 7.4 P rovide a permeable and human-scaled • Promote pedestrian thoroughfares well connected and provides convenient and South of Docklands. network of engaging streets and routes. across large development sites to enhance links to surrounding areas. pedestrian permeability and connectivity. Access Docklands: A Plan for the Docklands • Ensure built form allows for solar access • Provide contrast and celebrate the Transport Network (Places Victoria, City of at key times of the day and throughout the 7.1 Improve pedestrian connections varied scales Docklands has to offer. Melbourne with UrbanTrans, 2012) includes year, and ensure adverse wind effects are within Docklands and from Docklands Celebrate the large structures in the precinct recommendations to improve transport minimised in the public realm. to surrounding areas. such as the Bolte Bridge or the Southern links and should be referenced. Some key • Ensure public-private interfaces and Star Observation Wheel. Provide contrast to • Investigate potential operable recommendations in the Access Docklands ground-level facades are designed to provide this experience through increasing smaller footbridges over the Victoria Harbour entry Plan include: interest and high levels of amenity to the structures and spaces of human scale. and Yarra River to improve connections public realm. between Yarra’s Edge, Victoria Harbour and • improve peak hour public transport Successful examples of streets with positive NewQuay West. service between Southern Cross Station • Ensure buildings with large floor plates and/ and Victoria Harbour or single ownerships provide treatments to interfaces are townhouses at Quay Park, and both • Improve the quality and integration of the building edges that enable fine-grained Merchant Street and Rakaia Way integrate a fine • open Flagstaff Station on weekends Docklands Drive and Dudley Street and street frontages and a diversity of uses within grain of adjoining land uses, canopies and street investigate upgrading the Dudley • introduce an integrated Yarra ferry service the public realm. trees. The narrower pedestrian streets in Harbour Street underpass. Town also offer a human-scale experience. • improve peak hour public transport • Reduce the severance created by rail service between Flagstaff Station and infrastructure and connect Docklands to Docklands North North Melbourne North and West Melbourne. • potential lightrail connection between Train Station To Errol Street, North Melbourne • Bridge over Wurundjeri Way and improve To Dynon Road Footscray and central Melbourne Dudley Street - connections to the city centre. • lightrail connection between Fishermans Link to Queen Victoria Market • Provide a pedestrian connection between & Flagstaff Gardens Bend and Collins Street to central city Moonee Ponds Creek Future E-Gate the stadium concourse and Lonsdale Street Trail which bridges over the rail infrastructure. • potential water shuttle service between Site Yarra River and Victoria Harbour. Latrobe Street • Create continuous, safe and attractive - City to walking and cycling routes that link to Harbour link public transport, public spaces, community Lonsdale facilities and neighbouring areas. 7.3 Improve pedestrian connections where Street • Provide pedestrian links through large sites there are significant level changes. Melbourne to increase permeability of the urban fabric Port Bourke and provide choice for pedestrians. The following level changes could be Street improved in terms of shelter, wayfinding and universal accessibility: Collins Street • Bourke Street/Spencer Street stairs • Collins Street to Village Street and Aurora Flinders Street Lane (in future). Lorimer Street Northbank Promenade

Key future Seafarers Bridge connections

E xisting connection Potential new connection To South Melbourne

Committed connections Ingles Street Level changes To Port Melbourne/Albert Park

Fig 4.07 Enhance connections to neighbouring areas .

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The diagram opposite illustrates the Identity design principles in a primary street. Bluestone paving and City of Melbourne street furniture palette reinforces the central city character.

a menity Canopies along building frontages improve pedestrian amenity.

Interfaces Fine-grain and active frontages at ground level encourage street life.

Diversity of use Adequate space for uses such as outdoor dining contribute to the diversity of use of the street.

Community Street stalls provide for community activity contributing to the life and character of the street.

Connectivity Public transport links connect Docklands to the central city.

sustainability Conditions for cyclists to encourage and support this mode of transport.

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DATE. 21.08.2012 JOB SIZE. 297mm(h) x 210mm(w) JOB NO. REV. CLIENT. JOB NAME. 028081r07_COME_Docklands Public Realm Plan 93 MONTAGUE ST. STH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 AUSTRALIA PH. (03) 9686 7766 | W. WWW.OD.COM.AU | E. [email protected] © OPTIMO 2012 REPRESENTATIVE STREET SECTION - LOCAL CENTRES + CONNECTORS

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Docklands public street design - reference documents

This page summarises useful reference documents that apply to the documents listed and described below.

City of Melbourne Outdoor Cafe Guide Melbourne Docklands Wind Mitigation (City of Melbourne, 2008) Guidelines (VicUrban, 2008) This guide gives advice on the design of These guidelines give advice on outdoor cafes in the City of Melbourne. how to ameliorate unpleasant wind conditions in the public realm. Docklands Retail Statement (VicUrban, City of Melbourne, Melbourne Docklands, State Government, 2008) Urban Forest Strategy (City of Melbourne, 2012) This statement explores the current challenges and opportunities for This strategy provides a strategic developing a viable and vibrant retail framework for the evolution and sector in the Docklands. longevity of tree planting in the City of Melbourne. City of Melbourne Road Encroachment Operational Guidelines Urban Forest Diversity Guidelines (City of Melbourne, 2003) (City of Melbourne, 2011) These guidelines explain the process These guidelines are a subsidiary Council uses to permit and regulate document to the Urban Forest Strategy encroachments and projections into4 and provide advice on tree planting and the road space. species selection in the City of Melbourne.

Melbourne Docklands Tree Strategy (VicUrban, 2008) Access Docklands A Plan for the Docklands Transport Network This document provides a strategic (Places Victoria, City of Melbourne overview to tree planting in Docklands. with UrbanTrans, 2012) 6 Includes comprehensive baseline Docklands Design and Construction data and a range of important future Standards for Public Infrastructure strategic directions2 and actions for 3 Works (City of Melbourne, 2012) streets and routes. These standards apply to the design and 1 construction of all civil and public realm works within the Docklands area that will eventually become the assets of, or be vested in, the City of Melbourne. 5

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1 FOOTPATHS DATE. 21.08.2012 JOB SIZE. 297mm(h) x 210mm(w) JOB NO. REV. CLIENT. JOB NAME. 028081r07_COME_Docklands Public Realm Plan 93 MONTAGUE ST. STH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 AUSTRALIA • Pedestrian pathsPH. (03) 9686 designed 7766 | W. WWW .ODto.COM provide.AU | E. PRODUCTION a high@ OD.COM.AUlevel of accessibility and to support onstreet activities© OPTIMO 2012 such as outdoor cafes. • Weather protection over footpaths in local centres. • Street furniture to optimise accessibility for all pedestrians and cyclists, including seats, bicycle hoops and high quality pedestrian lighting.

2 BIKE LANES • Where possible, bicycle lanes separated from vehicular traf c.

3 CARS • Car lanes set at minimum widths according to a 40km/h speed limit. • Onstreet car parking provided on at least one side of the street in local streets and both sides of the street in local centres.

4 TREES • Large canopy street trees to provide shade and cooling, mitigate wind exposure and offer habitat. • Trees planted in pits designed for optimal growing conditions and WSUD.

5 CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE • Upgraded drainage systems (e.g. pipe network, pits, gross pollutant traps and pumps). • Street furniture (e.g. street lights and parking meters) converted to alternative power sources such as locally-generated solar power. • Existing overhead powerlines to be relocated underground.

6 PUBLIC TRANSPORT • Public transport routes designed for optimum service provision, including dedicated tram / bus lanes and fully accessible tram / bus stops. Page 55 of 80 Des ign Checklist

T ypical street standard

A sample of a typical illustrated street standard from Docklands Design and Construction Standards for Public Infrastructure Works (City of Melbourne, 2012).

Fig 4.08 Typical illustrated street standard. Fig 4.08 Typical illustrated street standard (detail).

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