St Kilda Foreshore Urban Design Framework Acknowledgements
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ST KILDA FORESHORE URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Department of Infrastucture Pride of Place program City of Port Phillip Phillip Loone, Project Manager Joint working group—steering committee Consultants 4D Form Urbanism & Architecture David Lock Associates Integrated Urban Management Macroplan TTM Consulting Historic photographs and maps State Library of Victoria City of Port Phillip March Cover image: Oblique aerial photograph of St Kilda, 2000. Revised December CONTENTS ST KILDA FORESHORE URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK ................................................. 1 WHAT IS AN URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK? .................................................................................................................... 1 WHY AN URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR ST KILDA FORESHORE? ...................................................................... 1 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH ................................................................................................................................................ 2 HOW TO READ THIS DOCUMENT ........................................................................................................................................ 2 THE TERMS USED IN THIS DOCUMENT.............................................................................................................................. 2 PLANNING CONTEXT OF ST KILDA FORESHORE URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK ...... 3 POLICY CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 STRATEGIC CONTEXT ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 PROCESS OF DEVELOPING ST KILDA FORESHORE URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK .... 4 JOINT WORKING GROUP—STEERING COMMITTEE....................................................................................................... 4 ST KILDA FORESHORE PLANNING AND DESIGN FRAMEWORK.................................................................................. 4 PRINCIPLES OF GOOD URBAN DESIGN ........................................................................ 5 ANALYSIS OF ST KILDA FORESHORE—THE PEOPLE, THE SETTING AND PLACE ........ 6 THE PEOPLE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Demographics ................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 THE SETTING ............................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Landscape structure ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Natural environment ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Pre-European settlement ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Historic evolution .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Role in metropolitan structure ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 THE PLACE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Plan structure ............................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Built form typology ...................................................................................................................................................................... 16 View structure .............................................................................................................................................................................. 18 VISION AND VALUES FOR ST KILDA FORESHORE ....................................................... 21 THE VISION .............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 THE VALUES ............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 What came out of the 20–20 Vision Display? ................................................................................................................................ 21 What came out of the Stakeholders’ Forum? ................................................................................................................................. 22 What was said at the Community Reference Panels ...................................................................................................................... 22 OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING ST KILDA FORESHORE .................. 23 OBJECTIVE 1: TO MAINTAIN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ST KILDA ..................................................................... 24 OBJECTIVE 2 TO RESPECT AND ENHANCE THE ‘ST KILDANESS’ OF THE FORESHORE ......................................... 25 OBJECTIVE 3: TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC SPACE ..................................................................................... 26 OBJECTIVE 4: TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION ............................................................................................. 27 OBJECTIVE 5: TO PROMOTE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT .............................................................................................. 28 OBJECTIVE 6: TO PROTECT, CELEBRATE AND ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY OF ST KILDA HARBOUR AND FORESHORE ........................................................................................................................... 29 OPPORTUNITIES AND PROPOSALS FOR ST KILDA FORESHORE ................................ 30 THE OPPORTUNITIES............................................................................................................................................................ 30 LINEAR ENTITIES ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 SPATIAL CLUSTERS................................................................................................................................................................. 37 OVERALL THEMES .................................................................................................................................................................. 44 WAY FORWARD FOR ST KILDA URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK ...................................51 COORDINATION AND COMMITMENT ............................................................................................................................. 51 PLANNING AND DESIGN ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 52 FUNDING .................................................................................................................................................................................. 53 MONITORING ......................................................................................................................................................................... 53 APPENDICES ..................................................................................................................54 APPENDIX 1: FORESHORE LAND OWNERSHIP AND LEASES ........................................................................................ 55 APPENDIX 2: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS.........................................................................56 APPENDIX 3/1: ILLUSTRATION ............................................................................................................................. FOLDOUT APPENDIX 3/2: FRAMEWORK CONCEPTS ......................................................................................................... FOLDOUT APPENDIX 4: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS ....................................................................................... 59 Oblique aerial view of St Kilda and Kenneys baths, early 1920s. CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Fig. 1: Area Boundaries ................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Fig. 2: The Framework Process .......................................................................................................................................................