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Residents Fight Crown Approval MARCH 2017 ISSUE 61 PRICELESS WWW.SOUTHBANKLOCALNEWS.COM.AU : SOUTHBANK_News The voice of Southbank, South Wharf & Montague ■ Stephen Mayne writes for us ■ Meet CoPP Cr Marcus Pearl Page 6 Page 11 ■ Southbank Boulevard insight ■ A Freshwater feature Page 10 Page 12 Arts Precinct grows! Th e highly anticipated launch of Creative Spaces at Th e Guild last month saw even more creative institutions offi cially move into Southbank. Over 200 people helped celebrate the unveiling of the transformed spaces on February 23, which the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and Melbourne Fringe now call home. Creative Victoria Deputy Secretary Andrew Abbott described the new space as a "gem". Story and photos - Arts Precinct supplement Creative Spaces program manager Eleni Arbus, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, NIDA CEO Kate Cherry, Fringe Festival CEO Simon Abrahams and Creative Victoria Deputy Secretary page 13. Andrew Abbott at last month's unveiling of Creative Spaces at the Guild. Photo: Melanie Desa. Residents fi ght Crown approval By Sean Car Th e Southbank community, led by the Freshwater Place Owner’s Corporation (OC), is demanding that the State Government’s approval of Crown’s 90-storey tower be reviewed under the normal planning process. Th e OCs of neighbouring Freshwater Place developers gained approval via an Melbourne should just go through on the 6-star hotel comprising 388 rooms. and Prima Pearl, along with the Southbank amendment (C310) to the Melbourne basis of state signifi cance.” Th e controversial sky-bridge link over Residents’ Association (SRA) and Southbank Planning Scheme. Queensbridge St has also been approved as OC Network (SOCN) have expressed their Th e Freshwater Place OC has pleaded with While Freshwater Place OC chairman Peter part of the development. In opposition, local outrage over the approval. the developers over a number of years to Renner stressed he was not against the respect the wishes of its future neighbours member for Albert Park Martin Foley had Th e joint project for One Queensbridge St development, he said a hotel apartment for minimum setbacks, tower separation, referred to it as “a bridge too far”. building did not qualify as state signifi cant. between Crown and Schiavello Group was privacy and access to sunlight. Th e OC has His colleague, Minister for Planning Richard exempted from the normal planning process “It’s absolute folly and a joke,” he said. “It’s also commissioned an independent report, Wynne spruiked the approval as a “jobs with Premier Daniel Andrews issuing a just done in a way and means of avoiding the which illustrates that the tower will also announcement”, which he claimed would press release stating that it was of “true state normal planning process.” overshadow the Shrine of Remembrance. deliver 4000 jobs, $21 billion in economic signifi cance”. benefi ts to the state and $100 million as part “Th is term is used for public property we’re Approved at 323-metres, One Queensbridge of a ‘community benefi ts package’. Having had multiple applications knocked not talking about apartment buildings and will become Australia’s tallest tower and back by consecutive governments, the hotels. If we were, everyone that’s built in include 708 apartments and feature a new Continued on page 3. WE ARE YOUR LOCAL GROCER! 182 City Road, SOUTHBANK 2 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 61 Who’s this Guy? to the state or is public infrastructure is, as Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Freshwater Place OC Chairman Peter Renner PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 put it, “a joke”. Tel: 8689 7980 Fax: 9602 2929 Editorial www.southbanklocalnews.com.au But the jokes don’t stop there! Next we have Sean Car Minister Wynne’s public benefi ts package to Editor: Sean Car open. While Southbank will be pleased to Publisher: Shane Scanlan After years of hammering see a makeover of the promenade and Queensbridge Square, these areas are Tel: 8689 7980 Fax: 9602 2929 former Liberal Minister for [email protected] tourism epicentres. Just what Crown wants. Planning Matthew Guy over From a local perspective, $100 million of Reader contributions are welcome. such ‘benefi ts’ represents an opportunity Please send articles and images to poor planning, it would seem lost for real community infrastructure. But [email protected] our current minister isn’t so hey, at least we get a sky deck… And more broadly, at a time when so Deadline for edition 62 is March 31. diff erent after all. many of our most vulnerable Melburnians In just one approval, Minister Richard are doing it tough, most would make the Wynne and his government have lost a case for public housing over public realm CONNECT great deal of credibility when it comes to approved within the spirit of these controls.” improvements any day. respecting proper planning. Keep up to date with local news & events. Under s201F of the Planning and And then there’s the Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. In case you hadn’t heard, Cr Rohan Follow us on Twitter And he’s not alone. Many Southbankers also Environment Act 1987, ‘state signifi cance’ Leppert moved a motion at the Future @SOUTHBANK_News feel let down by his boss Premier Andrews, is a formal declaration and is often used for the Lord Mayor and our highly respected public infrastructure projects. Melbourne Committee meeting last month local member Martin Foley, who were requesting that council’s planning offi cers Like us on Facebook When I pursued my original enquiry for a all seemingly happy to follow the beat of complete a report to assess Crown’s planning Southbank Local News list of other projects that had been approved Crown’s drum. scheme amendment to be published on its under this exemption (which I now know website. Some transparency for the public, Like us on Instagram Yet no one, including myself, is anti- includes projects such as the Melbourne which is devoid of a voice on what is the SouthbankLocalNews development and particularly on what Museum), the spokesperson changed their largest building ever approved in our city. has long been a redundant series of sites tune. on a prominent part of Queensbridge St. However, the Lord Mayor and ultimately “Queensbridge Street has been determined Southbank will be so much better for its his team were forced to declare a confl ict as being ‘In the interests of Victoria,’” the redevelopment. of interest having accepted an election spokesperson said. donation from Harold Mitchell, who just But the manner in which this has been ‘In the interests of Victoria’ is the wording happens to sit on the board of Crown. approved really is unfathomable in so many used regarding s20 (4) decisions, and can be regards. Where to begin? We could talk for days about the minister used for public infrastructure projects. It’s an compromising his new C270 planning Let’s start with trying to understand the entirely diff erent exemption to the one the controls or how in opposition his planning exemption of ‘state signifi cance,’ for government has spruiked in press releases government opposed many aspects of which this was approved under. Or was it? and to other media following the approval. the project, including the sky-bridge or Th e Premier himself had referred to it as Based on my experience and having read overshadowing of the Shrine. several other news reports that also used the “truly state signifi cant” and a spokesperson In short, this approval has made a mockery term “state signifi cance” I’m not convinced for Minister Wynne initially provided the of the planning process. Will we now see by the minister attempting to brand the following statement: other developers pushing through hotels approval anything otherwise. “One Queensbridge Street, which delivers on the grounds of state signifi cance or ‘In $2.1 billion in economic impact and 4000 While Crown’s tower is more aligned within the interests of Victoria?’ Th e government’s jobs, while exempted from the controls ‘Th e Interests of Victoria’, the Government anything goes approach in this instance on the basis of its state signifi cance, was suggesting that a new hotel is signifi cant suggests nothing is impossible. 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International Property Group has requested to amend its permit and increase its Planning offi cers noted a number of building’s height to 218 metres and concerns in their report regarding 67-storeys. inadequate setbacks, wind impacts and poor internal amenity. It also stated that by virtue Residents will soon know more about the City of Th e matter went before City of Melbourne Melbourne’s Boyd Park project. of its height, the building would dominate councillors at its Future Melbourne the desired urban form for Power St and Committee meeting on March 7 shortly after represented an overdevelopment of the site.
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