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State to Take Back Seafarers Park MAY 2010 ISSUE 53 PRICELESS WWW.DOCKLANDSNEWS.COM.AU : Docklands_News Licensing issues halt river venues See page 3 "Tollywood" comes DocklandsTV to Docklands See page 5 .com.au INDIAN GIVERS State to take back Seafarers Park Th e State Government has outraged Docklands residents for off ering to developers land it launched as a public park less than fi ve years ago. Th e Seafarers Rest Park between the river Flinders Wharf residents say they have and the Mission to Seafarers has been been let down by the developer and the off ered to developers as part of a registration Government. Th eir 2001 section 32 vendor of interest to develop the precinct. statements state that the land on which the park stands had been modifi ed by “transfer Local MP Bronwyn Pike said when launching to the Queen”. And their purchase contracts the park in December 2005: “Seafarers refer to the land as a park. Rest is a fantastic asset for the Docklands Residents show their support for retention of Seafarers Rest Park, which the Government is proposal to rezone for and Melbourne and will add to the sense Victorian Government Property Group maps commercial development. of community fl ourishing in this recently from 1996 show the park as “public open established residential area.” space”. However, current Surveyor General “It appears that the Government is being Clarke said the process was being driven maps refer to the land as “crown land dishonest by allowing the rezoning of public by Treasury and Finance without regard to She declined to tell Docklands News how temporarily reserved for public purposes”. open space for the purposes of commercial planning considerations. she felt about the park being rezoned to development in order to achieve some of its allow development. A Department of Treasury and Finance He said the council supported the retention other objectives,” Mr McNair said. spokesperson said the land was "temporarily of the park, but was merely an observer reserved" for public purposes in 1997. “It seems to be both greedy and short without any input into the process. sighted, because surveys in the Docklands Th e Government supports rezoning the land “Clearly Docklands needs more green area have shown the lack of public open from “public park and recreation” to “capital space,” he said. space is one of residents’ greatest concerns.” city zone 1” to allow development. A spokesperson for Finance Minister Tim “We’ve got a number of young children living “I’m angered because it represents a breach Holding said the Minister was unable to in this building and this is the only open of contract between the developer, Flinders comment until he signed off a "progress space they’ve got to play in without crossing Wharf Land, and the purchasers,” resident brief". However, she maintained that the a very busy road.” Tom McNair said. proposal would require the respondents to Flinders Wharf Land consortium member deliver a new public open space. “Th ere was misrepresentation of what we Craig Williams said he was not interested in understood we were buying which was an Local MP and then Health Minister Bronwyn Pike discussing the matter. opening the park with body corporate chair John Johnson apartment adjacent to public open space and Anglican Bishop Philip Huggins in 2005. and designated park land.” City of Melbourne planning chair Cr Peter 2 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 53 Circulation up 30% Editorial Docklands News continues to Suite 05, 198 Harbour Esplanade Comment PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 grow as more and more people Tel: 8689 7979 Fax: 9602 2929 discover Docklands. www.docklandsnews.com.au Shane Scanlan Advertising After each of our editions this year we have Tel: 8689 7979 Fax: 9602 2929 added another 1000 because we have run [email protected] out of papers mid-month. Reader contributions are welcome. “We started the year printing 10,000, but we Please send articles and images to are printing 13,000 for May,” managing editor The developer’s dilemma [email protected] Shane Scanlan said. Deadline for the June edition is May 21. “It’s a great problem to have – a problem that Docklands developers have a dilemma. Do they embrace the our advertisers are very happy about.” community or not? Are they going to be more profi table working but when we said that, it was true.” “Th at Conder access with the community or going their own way refl ects our master plan at that time.” “But and continually fi nding prospects to sell the State Government wants more urban their new apartments to? consolidation, so they’ve encouraged us to revise our master plan and we’re now Repeat and referral business is the best, most proposing a 15-storey tower on the land.” cost-eff ective way to grow any business. Ten causing concern years ago, Docklands developers didn’t have Lend Lease has consistently refused to reveal By Alison Kinkade this option. But now, at the half-way point, its new master plan or disclose Serrata. And they have a choice. yet, it can successfully apply for Government permission to build based on this secret Dudley St intersection, and at the entry to One of the things that attracted the plan. (And what this says about our Conder resident Warren Mills the car-park opposite the Conder,” he said. developers to Docklands in the fi rst place Government is another story again!) is fed up with poor car access He has also suggested that Palmyra Way was the State Government’s promise that they could operate outside of normal Lend Lease can defi ne this Government to his NewQuay building and could be connected to Aquitania Way, allowing Conder residents access to Harbour planning practices which typically involve permission to build without the bother of wants it fi xed immediately. Esplanade via Docklands Drive. community consultation. No doubt, this publicly revealing its plans as a victory. But notion still resonates with old-school it can’t have it both ways. It can’t hope for “Currently, even if I just want to go to After more than a year trying to correspond developer thinking. community support if it takes the secret Safeway or down to Victoria Harbour, I have with the City of Melbourne and VicUrban, deals route. to go onto Wurundjeri Way with all the traffi c But will this approach ultimately deliver Mr Mills is disappointed that access and about six set of lights,” he said. maximum profi ts? Sure they can still sell in China and other to the Conder has been left out of the countries. But they do need local sales. A case in point is the Lend Lease’s Serrata redevelopment plans for Harbour Esplanade. VicUrban’s Docklands development And the world is getting smaller every day. director, Simon Wilson, said: “VicUrban, proposal in Bourke St, Victoria Harbour. Mr Mills, who has lived in the Conder for Google the term “serrata victoria harbour” in consultation with the City of Melbourne two years, is specifi cally angry about the lack Lend Lease’s formerly happy customers and our recent story on resident anger and NewQuay developer MAB Corporation, of motor-vehicle access when approaching who purchased properties in the up-market comes up just under Vivas Lend Lease’s will look into potential solutions to improve his building from Footscray Rd, Dudley St Mosaic and Montage buildings were “register your interest”. access to the Conder building, including appalled to learn that the developer was and Wurundejeri Way, and lack of access to Th e principles involved in this case are not examining options that could be considered redefi ning its previously-stated position that Harbour Esplanade from the Conder. restricted to Victoria Harbour. All precinct as part of future development planned for the block next door was reserved for low-rise developers should take note. Th e journey He wrote a letter to the council last year and behind the Conder building.” community use. an engineer visited. But the remedial work to the “build out” point in 2020 could be City of Melbourne CEO Kathy Alexander that resulted hadn’t helped much, he said. Th e residents only found this out because harmonious or it could be the longest said VicUrban was leading the Harbour Lend Lease marketers approached them 10 years imaginable. Mr Mills has suggested possible solutions. Esplanade redevelopment and that U-turns directly as previous customers with a were a VicRoads matter. “I have suggested that we should be allowed “special off er”. to do a U-turn at the Harbour Esplanade/ MAB Corporation declined to comment. Th e explanation goes along these lines: “Oh, ISSUE 53 DOCKLANDS NEWS 3 Licensing issues prevent venues from opening By Alison Kinkade Development plans on both North and South Wharfs have stalled because venue owners are struggling to get liquor licences. South Wharf restaurants were expecting having the venues around his home, to open in March, but have been as long as they strictly adhered to their indefi nitely delayed. licence conditions. Developer Austexx will not comment “My wife and I get a real buzz about the because the applications are still before the vibrancy around Southbank / Southgate. Liquor Licensing Commission. But sources A smaller version of that type of activity in say not to expect activation of the precinct our precinct does not concern us at all. Th e before December. problems arise though when licensees do not adhere strictly to their licence And on the other side of the river, hospitality conditions.” businesses are facing a similar battle against multiple objections from residents, council “Prior to the refurbishment of the southern and police.
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