Section 2 OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-124 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-125
OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS AT A GLANCE Montague
Current population (2018) 651 South People who live in Port Phillip Forecast population (2027) 7,064 tend to experience the City at Melbourne a neighbourhood level. Strong Population % Current population (2018) 9,718 communities of interest exist in Port change 985 Forecast population (2027) 11,403 local areas, and people relate closely with the distinctive Melbourne Population % characteristics of their own Current population (2018) 17,544 change 17 neighbourhood. Forecast population (2027) 18,062 We have nine defined neighbourhoods, each with distinct Population % change character and attributes. Two of 3.0 these are emerging neighbourhoods in Fishermans Bend. St Kilda Road Current population (2018) 12,582 We deliver services and projects in Forecast population (2027) 17,309 our each of our neighbourhoods, and each place is home to community infrastructure that Population % Sandridge / change Balaclava / enables us to provide services 38 locally, city-wide and regionally. Wirraway East St Kilda
Current population (2018) 521 Current population (2018) 17,763 Forecast population (2027) 5,508 Forecast population (2027) 18,527 Population % Population % change 957 change 4.3 Albert Park / Middle Park
Current population (2018) 12,300 Forecast population (2027) 12,197 Population % change -0.8
We have nine defined neighbourhoods, each St Kilda / with distinct character St Kilda West Current population (2018) 25,777 and attributes. Forecast population (2027) 28,891 Population % Elwood / change 12 Ripponlea
Current population (2018) 16,657 Forecast population (2027) 17,180
Population Neighbourhood boundaries do not correspond directly with % suburb boundaries. All All population population estimates estimates and and forecasts forecasts change 3.1 are sourced from Forecast.id (based on the 20112016 Census), updated in JanuaryDecember 2017. 2017. CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-126 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-127
We are Our people History • 16,657 people are estimated to Point Ormond was an important Development of the area dates live here in 2018. By 2027, the source of seafood for the Boon from the 1850s. Substantial ELWOOD / population is forecast to grow by Wurrung people, with evidence of growth started in the early 1900s, 3.1 per cent to 17,180. an Aboriginal shell midden found continuing into the interwar in 1974. The original red, brown period. Significant development • There is a higher proportion of and yellow sandstone of this area occurred during the post-war RIPPONLEA young people (0 to 17 years) and is likely to have been a source years. The population was relatively 35 to 49 year olds than the City of ochre for body paint used in stable during the 1990s and then Encompassing the suburb of Ripponlea and most of the suburb average, reflecting the greater performance. In 1894, a Ngargee increased slightly from 2001, proportion of family households. of Elwood, the neighbourhood is known for its leafy streets and was witnessed at the site that is largely a result of new apartment There is a smaller proportion of suburban character. Visitors and locals are drawn to the beach now Ripponlea mansion. developments in the area. Elwood older people. and the cafés and restaurants in local shopping strips. Ripponlea was originally swampland until Station offers good accessibility to central Melbourne. • While most people live in the development of Elwood medium and high-density Canal, which enabled residential housing, a greater proportion development live in separate housing (14.3 per cent) than the City of Port Phillip average (8.4 per cent). • 13.6 per cent of people speak a language other than English at home, compared with the City average of 20.6 per cent, with Greek, Italian and Russian the most common.
41.1% Households are families. CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-128 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-129
Servicing the community
The Elwood / Ripponlea neighbourhood is home to a range of amenities and facilities
• Ripponlea neighbourhood activity • Burnett Gray Centre • Elwood Beach centre (Elwood playgroups) • Point Ormond • Elwood neighbourhood activity • Elwood Angling Club • Elwood Canal centre (Glen Huntly / Ormond • Elwood Life Saving Club roads) • Clarke Reserve • Elwood St Kilda Neighbourhood • Tennyson Street neighbourhood • Moran Reserve Learning centre (including Poets activity centre Grove community garden and • Lady Forster Kindergarten toy library) • Poets Grove Family and • Elwood Park Children’s Centre
Investment in Elwood / Ripponlea this year (2018/19)
• Building renewals • Kerb and channel renewals: • Stormwater management: -- Sails on the Bay (design and -- Los Angeles Court -- Byrne Avenue and Ormond airconditioner replacement) Road (pipe replacement) -- Monkstadt Avenue • Elster Creek catchment -- Clarke Reserve (design, • Laneway renewals and upgrades: governance and advocacy underground water retention -- R1693 (Clarke Street) system and pipe installation) • Elwood Public Space Wall -- R1627 (Coleridge Street) -- Goldsmith Street (design, replacement (also includes raingarden and pipe diversion) Elwood Playspace) - complete -- R1795 and R3351 (Dickens construction Street) -- Meredith and Barkly Street -- R1551 (Ormond Road) (pipe replacement) • Footpath renewals -- R1545 (Victoria Avenue) -- Brighton Road -- Foam Street • Outdoor Fitness Station installation at Elwood Park -- Goldsmith Street -- Lyndon Street • Road renewals: -- Meredith Street -- May Street -- Ruskin Street -- Ruskin Street (design) -- Shelley Street -- Shelley Street (design) CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-130 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-131
We are Our people History • 17,763 people are estimated to • 21 per cent of people speak a Houses in Balaclava / St Kilda East live here in 2018. By 2027 the language other than English at includes larger houses and BALACLAVA / population is projected to grow home (slightly higher than the cottages from the Victorian, by 4.3 per cent to 18,527. City average). Edwardian and interwar eras, and a significant number of flats from • There is a prominent Jewish • Russian (2.0 per cent), Greek the 1960s and 1970s, and more EAST ST KILDA community in the neighbourhood. (1.8 per cent) and Spanish recent contemporary apartments. (1.5 per cent) are the most • There is a high proportion of Encompassing the suburb of Balaclava and part of St Kilda East common languages spoken at Balaclava was named after the young workers and smaller home other than English. battlefield in the Crimean War and St Kilda, this neighbourhood has diverse housing types and proportions of parents, young (1853-1856) and has related street population. Primarily a residential neighbourhood, the Carlisle families and older people names like Nightingale, Inkerman, compared to the rest of the City. Street activity centre, Balaclava station and Alma Park are key Raglan and Sebastopol. features. The cafes and restaurants on Carlisle Street are popular • Most people live in medium with locals and visitors. and high-density housing (87.7 per cent).
42.3% residents are aged 25 to 39 years CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-132 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-133
Servicing the community
The Balaclava / St Kilda East neighbourhood is home to a range of amenities and facilities.
• Carlisle Street activity centre • St Kilda and Balaclava • St Kilda community garden Kindergarten • Inkerman Street local activity • Alma Park Reserve centre • St Kilda Library • Hewison Reserve • St Kilda Town Hall • Alma Road Community House • Te Arai Reserve (including maternal child health • Bubup Nairm Family and services and Te Arai community • William Street Reserve Children’s Centre garden) • Pakington Street Reserve • The Avenue Children’s Centre
Investment in Balaclava / St Kilda East this year (2018/19)
• Alma Park stormwater harvesting • Kerb and channel renewals: • Recreation reserves facilities development -- Sunhill Court renewals: -- Alma Park (cricket nets, • Building safety and accessibility: • Laneway renewals and upgrades: synthetic cricket pitch and -- Bubup Nairm Child Care Centre -- R3767 and R3769 surrounding apron, and new cladding rectification works (Balston Street) soccer goal posts). This is -- St Kilda Town Hall security -- R3793 (Blenheim Street) partially funded with a Sport improvements -- R3803 (Chusan Street) and Recreation Victoria grant. • Carlisle Street tram stop upgrade -- R1475 (Gourlay Street) (with PTV) -- R3765, R3771, R3773 and R3781 • Footpath renewals: -- R1497 (William Street) -- Charles Street -- Glen Eira Avenue -- The Avenue -- Woodstock Street CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-134 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-135
We are Our people History • 25,777 people are estimated to Albert Park Reserve was once a live here in 2018. By 2027, the rich willam or camp for the Yalukut ST KILDA / population is projected to grow Weelam, with miams (huts) built by 12 per cent to 28,891. alongside today’s Albert Park Lake. The Ngargee (Corroboree) Tree • There is a smaller proportion of located in the south-east corner ST KILDA WEST young people (under 17 years) of Albert Park is the last remaining when compared to the City corroboree tree in Melbourne, and Encompassing the suburbs of St Kilda West (east of Cowderoy average but a higher proportion also the site of the ceremonial dance of people aged 18 to 34 years, Street), most of St Kilda and a small part of Elwood, the circle and Ngargee grasslands that reflecting the prominence of neighbourhood is attractive to residents and visitors for its iconic are a current day focus for cultural singles and group households. retail strips, significant open spaces and the foreshore. and reconciliation activities. • Most people live in medium European development dates from St Kilda attracts millions of visitors every year, as it is home to to high-density housing the 1840s, spurred by the opening of (90.4 per cent). many of Melbourne’s famous attractions including Luna Park, the railway line. St Kilda grew in the the Palais Theatre and St Kilda Beach. It also hosts large events • Over half the dwellings are being late 1880s, continuing into the early including the St Kilda Festival and Pride March. rented (higher than the City 1900s. Expansion continued during average) and almost two out of the interwar period and the 1940s, every five residents live alone. including the construction of many flats and apartments. Significant • 18 per cent of people speak a development occurred during the language other than English at 1950s and 1960s, due mainly to home, with Spanish and Mandarin high-density development. the most common.
More than 54% of residents rent their home CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-136 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-137
Servicing the community
The St Kilda / St Kilda West neighbourhood is home to Investment in St Kilda / St Kilda West this year (2018/19) a range of amenities, facilities and significant events. • Blackspot safety improvements: • Laneway renewals and upgrades: • Peanut Farm Reserve sports pavilion upgrade and public • Fitzroy Street activity centre • St Kilda Festival • St Kilda Marina -- Inkerman Street / Chapel Street -- R4023 (Barkly Street) space lighting - complete intersection -- R3591 (Charles Street) • Acland Street activity centre • St Kilda Film Festival • O’Donnell Gardens construction -- Alma Road / Chapel Street -- R3483 (Clyde Street) • St Kilda Road South precinct • Esplanade Market • Church Street Reserve intersection • Road renewals: -- R3385 (Mozart Street) • St Kilda Triangle • Linden New Art • Crimea Street Reserve -- Fitzroy Street / Park Street -- Chapel Street (resurface) -- R3377 (Spenser Street) • Betty Day Community Centre • Theatreworks • Cummings Reserve intersection -- Charles Street (resurface) • Linden Gallery upgrade • Carlo Catani Wall Structural -- Enfield Street (resurface) • Cora Graves Community Centre • Shakespeare Grove Artist • H R Johnson Reserve - complete works Studios Rectification - complete -- Irymple Avenue (design) • Peanut Farm Reserve Pavilion • Jacoby Reserve construction • Open Space Irrigation renewal • Palais Theatre and upgrade: -- Princes Street (resurface) • St Kilda Adventure Playground • Jim Duggan Reserve • EcoCentre redevelopment • Luna Park * -- St Kilda Botanical Gardens • Sports fields lighting expansion: • Shakespeare Grove and Veg Out • Renfrey Reserve design opportunities pond pump replacement -- Peanut Farm, including • Astor Theatre * • St Kilda Life Saving Club • Talbot Reserve • Fitzroy Street streetscape -- Rotary Playground / remediation works • National Theatre * upgrade from Grey Street to • Port Phillip EcoCentre • Waterloo Reserve Stokehouse Reserve Lakeside Drive (with PTV) • St Kilda Adventure Playground • St Kilda Sea Baths * • Eildon Road Children’s Centre • Palais Theatre capital works upgrade (feasibility in 2018/19) • Footpath renewals: (footpath rectification and toilet • St Kilda Botanical Gardens • St Kilda Junction safety upgrade • North St Kilda Children’s Centre -- Barkly Street design) • Catani Gardens to implement pedestrian safety • Elwood Children’s Centre -- Blessington Street • Park Street bike link between and landscape works (design in -- Cintra Avenue St Kilda Road and Moray Street 2018/19) connecting the St Kilda Road -- Clyde Street • St Kilda Marina bike lane to the north and Moray -- Cowper Street Street bike link to the south • Stormwater management: -- Dalgety Lane (design) -- Beaconsfield Parade (renew -- Fitzroy Street • Parks and Playground renewals outlet to address pooling) -- Herbert Street and upgrades: • Walk Plan and Bike Plan -- Inkerman Grove -- Chipton Reserve (complete implementation: • Foreshore assets renewal and construction) -- Fitzroy Street and Park Street upgrade: -- Newton Court Reserve (design signalisation and complete construction) -- landscape design of Missing • Wellington Street / Dandenong (matched Victorian links section of the foreshore Road and Dandenong Road Government grant funding) and St Kilda Pier Promenade / Chapel Street intersection and Road • Parks, furniture and pathway improvements renewals: • Kerb and channel renewals: -- St Kilda Botanical Gardens -- Crimea Street (upgrade of fences along -- Tennyson Street Blessington, Dickens and Tennyson streets)
* Assets not owned / managed by council CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-138 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-139
We are Our people History • 12,582 people are estimated • Significantly more people were St Kilda Road is regarded as to live here in 2018, growing to born overseas (47.4 per cent) than Melbourne’s iconic ‘urban ST KILDA ROAD 17, 3 0 9 in 2 027. the City average (31.4 per cent), boulevard’. Development of with origins including China, the area dates from the 1860s, • There are a higher proportion of the United Kingdom, India and with several heritage mansions Encompassing parts of the suburbs of Melbourne and Windsor, people aged between 18 to 34 New Zealand. remaining. Rapid residential and parts of Albert Park and South Melbourne, the St Kilda Road years than the City average and apartment development has a much smaller proportion of • 34 per cent of people speak a neighbourhood is unique in the City because of its mix of offices taken place from the early 1990s, parents and young families. language other than English and high-rise residential development. It is our fastest growing replacing former office space. at home, with Mandarin and • Over 97 per cent of residents live neighbourhood. Cantonese the most common. The population more than doubled in high density housing, with over between 1991 and 2001 and growth St Kilda Road is a significant employment area with over 20,000 half being private renters. continues, with development of people working in the neighbourhood. The planned Domain residential apartment towers now Station for the Melbourne Metro will enhance access to the area. focused in the area north of The neighbourhood includes and adjoins significant open spaces Albert Road. and recreational facilities. Servicing the community
The St Kilda Road neighbourhood is home to a range of amenities and facilities.
• St Kilda Road North precinct • Albert Park, Golf Course and Lake * • Domain interchange • Albert Reserve tennis, lacrosse • Bowen Crescent Reserve and cricket facilities * • Albert Road Reserve
38 % Investment in St Kilda Road this year (2018/19) Population • Footpath renewals: • Road renewals: • Work with Victorian Government growth forecast -- Park Street -- Queens Lane (resurface) on the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project / Domain Station by 2027 -- Queens Lane -- R1809 (Punt Road) (resurface) -- Queens Road • Stormwater management: -- St Kilda Road -- Queens Road (design to address capacity)
* assets not owned/managed by Council CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-140 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-141
We are Our people History • 12,300 people are estimated to The coastline of Port Phillip Bay was live here in 2018. The population a focal point for the Boon Wurrung, ALBERT PARK / is forecast to decline to 12,197 who travelled annually down the by 2027 due to limited housing coast returning to Port Phillip in growth and a reduction in warmer weather. The Canterbury MIDDLE PARK household size (as families Road Urban Forest still retains mature). surviving plants of the woodlands and wetlands of the former Albert Encompassing the suburb of Middle Park, part of the suburb • There are a higher proportion Park Lagoon, which was the of pre-schoolers and people at of Albert Park and part of St Kilda West, this neighbourhood is traditional home to the Yalukut post-retirement age than the City one of the oldest parts of the City with significant heritage areas Weelam clan. average and a significantly smaller featuring wide tree-lined streets and houses from the Victorian proportion of young people European development dates and Edwardian eras. Primarily a residential area, visitors are starting out in the workforce. from the 1850s, spurred by the opening of the railway line. also drawn to the beach, local shopping strips and recreational • While more than half of residents Expansion continued during the facilities in Albert Park. live in medium density housing, interwar period and the 1940s, and a significantly higher proportion significant development occurred live in separate housing during the 1960s. The population (15.2 per cent) than the City was relatively stable between 1991 average of 8.4 per cent. and 2006, and increased slightly • Greek and Italian are the most between 2006 and 2011. common languages other than English that are spoken at home.
16 % of people speak a language other than English at home CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-142 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-143
Servicing the community
The Albert Park / Middle Park neighbourhood is home to a range of Investment in Albert Park / Middle Park this year (2018/19) amenities and facilities. • Albert Park stormwater • Litter bin renewals: • Stormwater management: harvesting opportunities • Bridport Street / Victoria Avenue • Mary Kehoe Community Centre • Albert Park Reserve * -- St Vincent Gardens Albert Park -- Dundas Place (design, (with Parks Victoria) neighbourhood activity centre (including Mary and Basil (five 240 litre bins) raingarden and pipe diversion) • Ashworth Street Reserve community garden) • Footpath renewals: -- Lane R1035, near Mills Street • Armstrong Street neighbourhood • Maritime infrastructure renewals: • Danks Street Playspace (replace pipe) activity centre • Middle Park Community Centre -- Ferrars Street -- Albert Park Angling Club wave (including library, toy library, • Gasworks Arts Park -- Merton Street deflection wall -- Langridge Street (pipe • Albert Park Preschool and maternal and child health and replacement) • Frank and Mary Crean Reserve -- Moubray Street • Parks and Playground renewals Maternal Child Health -- Wright Street (replace pipe) civic kindergarten) -- Moubray Street and upgrades: • Middle Park Kindergarten • Little Finlay Reserve • South Melbourne Life Saving -- St Vincent Place South -- St Vincent Gardens (design in • Water Sensitive Urban Design • Little Page Reserve implementation: • South Melbourne Childcare Club -- Danks Street 2018/19, construct in 2019/20) Cooperative -- Foote Street / Reed Street • Albert Park Yachting and • Neville Street Reserve -- Page Street • Road renewals: • Albert Park Library Angling Club -- Hambleton and Mills Street • Moubray Street Pop Up Park • Gasworks Arts Park reinstatement -- Cardigan Place (road resurface) -- Danks Street / Withers Street • Albert Park and Middle Park (design in 2018/19) -- Kerferd Road (road resurface) beaches -- Moubray Street / Bridport • Gasworks Theatre seats • Safer street infrastructure Street West replacement improvement • Kerb and channel renewals: -- Bridport Street/ Richardson Street intersection -- Danks Street • South Melbourne Life Saving • Laneway renewals and upgrades: Club redevelopment -- R2605 (Draper Street)
* Assets not owned / managed by council CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-144 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-145
We are Our people History • 9,718 people are estimated to live South Melbourne, or Nerre nerre here in 2018. The population will minum, was home to the Yalukut SOUTH MELBOURNE grow by 17 per cent to 11,403 by Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung. 2 027. The higher ground of Emerald Hill (now the site of the South Encompassing most of the suburb of South Melbourne and • Compared to the City average, Melbourne Town Hall) was used as a part of Albert Park, the neighbourhood is one of Melbourne’s there is a higher proportion of place to engage in ceremonies. original suburbs. The South Melbourne activity centre, including people aged over 70 years, and Clarendon Street and the South Melbourne Market, attracts local a lower proportion of residents Development dates from the aged between 18 and 34 years. 1850s, following establishment of and regional visitors. Significant established business precincts, a tent city for gold seekers. There • Residents live in a mix of medium predominantly east of Clarendon Street, offer a location for small was rapid growth in the 1870s and density (56.5 per cent), separate 1880s, and significant development and medium size firms close to central Melbourne. house (8.5 per cent) and high- occurred a century later, including density (33.4 per cent) housing, construction of high-rise public with a higher than average housing estates. The population has proportion of family households. increased gradually from the early • Greek and Russian are the most 1990s, a result of contemporary common languages other than apartment developments. English that are spoken at home.
16.3 % of residents live in social housing CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-146 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-147
Servicing the community
The South Melbourne neighbourhood is home to a range of Investment in South Melbourne this year (2018/19) amenities and facilities. • Footpath renewals: • Road renewals: • South Melbourne Town Hall ANAM lease works • South Melbourne Central • Melbourne Sports and Aquatic • Pickles Street Learning (Youth -- Bank Street -- Banks Street (road resurface) activity centre (Clarendon Street, Centre (asset not owned / Education) Centre -- Chessell Street -- Kings Way (design) • South Melbourne Town Hall South Melbourne Market and managed by council) lift upgrade • Skinners Adventure Playground -- Dorcas Lane -- Northumberland Street surrounding business precincts) • Napier Street Aged Care * -- Kings Way (design) • Stormwater management: • Sol Green Community Centre • South Melbourne Town Hall and -- Bike Path (near Victrack Depot) • CASPA Care Residential Care -- Gladstone Grove -- Cobden Street Community Hub • St Vincent Gardens -- Kerr Street • Skinners Adventure Playground (pipe replacement and • Clarendon Children’s Centre redirection) • South Melbourne Market • Sol Green Reserve -- Kings Way upgrade (feasibility in 2018/19) • Clarendon Family Centre -- Chessell Street (pipe • Emerald Hill Library and Heritage • Lyell / Iffla Reserve -- Law Street • South Melbourne Community (including maternal and child replacement) Centre -- Montague Street Centre upgrade health and toy library) • Eastern Reserve -- Cecil and Park streets • South Melbourne Community -- Nolan Court • South Melbourne Market building • Coventry Children’s Centre • Ludwig Stamer Reserve (pipe relining) Centre/Trugo Club -- Smith Street compliance: • Lillian Cannam Kindergarten • Emerald Hill Place -- Gladstone Lane • South Melbourne Hellenic RSL -- Tope Street -- Install a compliant roof car park (address water pooling) • Howe Crescent Reserve sprinkler system • Kerb and channel renewals: -- Heather and Park streets -- Address accompanying access (address capacity) -- Henderson Street and egress issues -- South Melbourne Market • Kerferd Road safety and • South Melbourne Market (pipe relining) streetscape improvements renewals: planning -- External Food Hall upgrade • Laneway renewals and upgrades: -- Lighting enhancements -- R2965 (Eville Street) -- Security camera replacements -- R3163 (Gladstone Place) -- Food Halls seating installation -- R2581 (Nelson Place) • South Melbourne Market solar -- R2597 (Smith Street) installation -- R3173 and R3185 • South Melbourne Market stall (Thistlethwaite Street) changeover refit works • South Melbourne Market strategic business case
* Assets not owned / managed by council CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-148 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-149
We are Our people History • 17,544 people are estimated The Port Melbourne lagoon to live here in 2018, growing to was an original feature of this PORT MELBOURNE 18,062 (3.0 per cent) by 2027. neighbourhood and a well-known Aboriginal site. The lagoon was • Compared to the City average, filled in from the 1890s to create Encompassing most of the suburb of Port Melbourne, this there is a larger proportion of Lagoon Reserve and Edwards Park. neighbourhood is a gateway to Melbourne via Station Pier. families with young children and The Waterfront precinct brings a large number of visitors to the people at retirement age Port Melbourne is one of the neighbourhood and beyond, attracted to the foreshore and (60+ years), and significantly oldest neighbourhoods in the smaller proportion of residents City, with housing dating from beaches and the retail and commercial strip along Bay Street. aged between 18 to 34. the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Traditional residential heritage precincts contrast with the Major exceptions are the historic • There is a smaller proportion of Garden City estates developed in distinctive areas of Garden City, Beacon Cove and contemporary renters than the City average the 1930s and 1940s, and the more apartment development in the Port Melbourne mixed use area. (42.7 per cent compared with recent Beacon Cove development 49.2 per cent) The neighbourhood is also home to the Port Phillip Specialist adjacent to Station Pier. Beacon School for children with disabilities. • There is a larger proportion of Cove and significant redevelopment people living in social housing of former industrial sites for (7.3 per cent compared to the City residential apartments (southern average of 4.7 per cent). end of Bay Street) have seen the population double over the last few decades.
5 % Residents who speak Greek at home CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-150 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-151
Servicing the community
The Port Melbourne neighbourhood is home to a Investment in Port Melbourne this year (2018/19) range of amenities and facilities. • Bike Network implementation: • Open Space Irrigation renewal • Stormwater management: and upgrade: • Bay Street major activity centre • Port Melbourne Community • Cyril Letts Reserve -- Beacon Cove shared path -- Esplanade East Centre / Trugo Club upgrade -- Beacon Cove (address pooling) • Garden City neighbourhood • Edwards Park -- Garden City Reserve shared -- Park Street and St Vincent Place activity centre • Port Melbourne Community • Parks and Playground renewals • Fred Jackson Reserve path upgrade North (address pooling) Room and upgrades: • Port Melbourne Waterfront • Lagoon Reserve • Footpath renewals: -- Buckingham Reserve -- Garden City Reserve precinct • Port Melbourne Cricket Ground (design, underground water • Garden City Reserve -- Bay Street (design in 2018/19, construct in • Ada Mary A’Beckett Children’s • Port Melbourne Tennis Club 2019/20) retention system and pipe -- Florence Place Centre • Morris Reserve installation) • Port Melbourne Life Saving Club • Public space lighting renewals -- Munro Street -- Liardet Street • Clark Street Children’s Centre • R F Julier Reserve and upgrades: • Port Melbourne Bowls Club -- Nott Street (address pooling and • Bubup Womindjeka Family and • Sangster Reserve -- Station Pier • Port Melbourne Yacht Club -- Ozone Street reconstruction of drainage Children’s Centre (commence replacement • Walter Reserve system) • Sandridge Community Centre / -- Spring Street East of lighting infrastructure - • Port Melbourne Library -- Beach Street (install rain Trugo Club • Perce White Reserve * -- Swallow Street completion by 2021/22) garden and pipe replacement) • Fishermans Bend Community • Sandridge Life Saving Club • Port Melbourne Town Hall -- Williamstown Road • Port Melbourne Waterfront Place Centre (and community garden) (including toy library) -- Woodruff Street Precinct Design Guidelines - • Buckingham Reserve completion • Liardet Street Community Centre • Graham Street skate park • Crichton Reserve upgrade • Road renewals: • Kerb and channel renewals: -- Griffin Crescent (road resurface) -- Farrell Street -- Melville Street -- Leith Crescent -- R2320 (Esplanade East) -- Spring Street East (road resurface) -- Station Street • Safer street infrastructure • Litter bin renewals: improvement -- Sandridge, Beacon Cove and -- Liardet Street/ Esplanade West Port Melbourne beaches intersection (50 240 litre bin) • Maritime infrastructure renewals: -- Beacon Cove
* Assets not owned / managed by council CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-152 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-153
We are The area History • Montague is currently a significant Montague contains a mix of employment area featuring a nineteenth and early twentieth MONTAGUE range of businesses, including century low scale residential, cafes and a major cluster of commercial and industrial Montague is an emerging neighbourhood in Fishermans Bend. creative industries. It is also home buildings, including some early Montague is bound by the West Gate Freeway to the north, the to significant cultural and built historic sites related to the growth heritage that further contribute of Melbourne’s port and earliest St Kilda Light Rail Line (Route 96) to the east, City Road to the to the neighbourhood’s distinct worker suburbs. Examples include south, and Boundary Street to the west. character. ‘corner’ hotels such as Wayside Inn, Talbot Inn, Golden Fleece Hotel, As part of Fishermans Bend, Montague is envisaged to feature • 651 people are estimated to live Victorian shops and dwellings along here in 2018, up from 92 in 2017. high-density tower development to the north, and finer grain City Road and Montague Street, By 2027, it is projected that 7,064 and notable industrial buildings lower-rise development to the south that will respect heritage people will reside in Montague like the former Dunlop factory and buildings and adjoining established neighbourhoods. and 14,106 residents by 2041. Laycock & Sons Woollen Mills. • The Montague Continuing Education Centre provides services to young persons with mild intellectual disabilities. Montague has strong links to the CBD with established light rail routes.
Servicing the community
The Montague neighbourhood will be home to amenities and facilities currently under development.
• Ferrars Street Education and • Community hub • Montague Park Community Precinct (proposed community hub (proposed name Kirrup Park (recently opened) co-located at the Montague - at the corner of Buckhurst and Continuing Education Centre) Ferrars Street)
Investment in Montague this year (2018/19)
• Ferrars Street Education and • Ferrars Street Education and • Parking technology Community precinct Community precinct - delivery enhancements: - remediation of Montague of streetscape (Railway Place) -- Installation of new paid parking Park site as an integrated space to ticket machines in Fishermans the school and other key Bend and introduction of time projects including changes to based controls intersections and tram stop works (Route 109 and 96) CITY OF PORT PHILLIP COUNCIL PLAN 2017-27 2-154 PORT PHILLIP TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS FINANCES AND PERFORMANCE Year 2 - Revised June 2018 2-155
We are The area History • 521 people are estimated to live The Sandridge area, named after ‘The Block’ residential development here in 2018, up from 307 in 2017. the high ridges of sand created by at 164 Ingles Street is an example of SANDRIDGE / By 2027, it is projected that 5,508 wind, originally contained extensive retention and reuse of an important people will reside in Sandridge / wetlands that were rich hunting and heritage building that will convey Wirraway and 23,021 residents gathering grounds for the Boon the place’s history to the future WIRRAWAY by 2041. Wurrung people. Fishermans Bend community. The building was the office of John • This neighbourhood adjoins the Formerly part of the neighbourhood Kitchen and Sons P/L, the largest Sandridge / Wirraway will transform over the next 30 years as the Fisherman Bend employment of Port Melbourne, this primarily soap making firm in Australia. The precinct (within the City of industrial area has been home Fishermans Bend renewal area develops. building also has architectural Melbourne), which is home to several prominent historical significance as an exceptionally Sandridge / Wirraway is bound by the West Gate Freeway to the to 12,500 existing jobs. North Australian aircraft design and imposing commercial building in Port Oval and its historic automotive manufacturing north, Williamstown Road to the south, Todd Road to the west the Classical Revival style from the grandstand is an anchor for the companies, including the former and Johnson Street to the east. interwar period. local community. JL Murphy Rootes/Chrysler factory. By 2051, it is anticipated the neighbourhood will host more Reserve is a major green space than 20,000 jobs, primarily in the Sandridge suburb, as a result in Fishermans Bend, with a focus on active recreation, organised of its premium office and commercial location and proposed sports and leisure activities. transport connections with the CBD across the Yarra River. The suburb of Wirraway is envisaged as a family friendly inner city neighbourhood offering a diverse choice of housing. Servicing the community
The Sandridge / Wirraway neighbourhood is home to a range of amenities and facilities.
• North Port Oval Reserve and • Council Depot and Resource Pavilion Recovery Centre • JL Murphy Reserve (including Dig-In Community Garden)
Investment in Sandridge / Wirraway this year (2018/19)
• JL Murphy Reserve pavilion upgrade • JL Murphy Playspace upgrade • North Port Oval upgrade