HOSIER LANE & RUTLEDGE LANE PROJECT 3 May 2010 - 25 June 2010 UVM - Sustainable Urban Ecologies P/L Hosier Lane & Rutledge Lane project Client City of Melbourne, Engineering Services Division Project Team Andrew Reynolds Lyle Talbot Sonya Parton Daniel Griffin Michael O’Hanlon Lachlan MacDowall Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete Adeo Esplago Director Richard Bruch Contact Web: www.urbanvillagemelbourne.net Email: [email protected] Postal: 76 Union Street, Brunswick, VIC, 3056 © UVM - Sustainable Urban Ecologies PTY/LTD CONTENTS 1 Executive summary .................................................................................................................................... 5 2 Table of recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 6 3 Case studies and stakeholder concerns & ideas 3.1 Case study - Living Room basement, neighbourhood waste management facility ........................................... 8 3.2 Case study - Forming of neighbourhood group ...................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Case study - Improved safety for women & homeless ........................................................................................... 12 3.4 Case study - Impacts of new waste service standards on frail, elderly and low-income residents .............. 13 3.5 Case study - Laneway Worker, Living Room .............................................................................................................13 3.6 Appreciation of existing cultures of Hosier Lane and Rutledge Lane ..................................................................14 3.7 Street cleaning ................................................................................................................................................................14 3.8 Improved access and facilities for pedestrians, disabled and cyclists ................................................................ 14 3.9 Improved communication of needs between local stakeholders and the film and TV industry .......................14 4 Tracking bins and waste 4.1 Hosier Lane ......................................................................................................................................................................16 4.2 Rutledge Lane ................................................................................................................................................................. 16 5 Activity and culture 5.1 Activity ..............................................................................................................................................................................20 5.2 Where do visitors come from? ......................................................................................................................................21 5.3 Culture ...............................................................................................................................................................................22 5.4 Place preferences ............................................................................................................................................................22 6 Site study 6.1 Location .............................................................................................................................................................................26 6.2 Spatial character, landform & views ...........................................................................................................................26 6.3 Access and permeability ..................................................................................................................................................26 6.5 Grain size and land-use ..................................................................................................................................................27 6.6 Public, semi private and private open space .............................................................................................................27 6.7 Dimensions and infrastructure ........................................................................................................................................28 6.8 Contours and drainage ...................................................................................................................................................30 6.9 Pedestrian access ..............................................................................................................................................................32 6.10 Vehicle access .................................................................................................................................................................34 FLINDERS LANE CHRISTINE ZAMBESI, QUEST APARTMENTS EG ET AL MACDONALD MARIA & COMPANY CAVENDISH HOUSE GEORGE BUILDING BUILDING FORMER MTC BUILDING RUTLEDGE LANE LIVING ROOM HOSIER LANE RUTLEDGE LANE MISTY BAR SECURE CAR PARK UNTIL NEVER GALLERY RUTLEDGE LANE FORUM THEATRE MOVIDA COSMOPOLITAN BUILDING © UVMFig 1 - Sustainable Urban Ecologies PTY/LTD Hosier Lane and Rutledge Lane, neighbourhood map MOVIDA NEXT DOOR FLINDERS STREET 1_Executive summary Hosier Lane & Rutledge Lane project During May and June 2010, UVM - Sustainable Urban Ecologies was engaged by City of Melbourne to investigate amenity, usage and infrastructure in and around Hosier Lane and Rutledge Lane, Melbourne. Specific focus points included the mapping of waste management practices in the area, the assessment and recommendation of alternative bin storage areas, recording the number of visitors to the lanes, and documenting and making recommendations around a full range of ideas and concerns of stakeholders to the area. Our multidisciplinary team approached the project brief from within a community development framework. By collecting neighbourhood stories, and mapping neighbourhood capacities and assets, we worked in a way which encouraged relationship building and sharing of resources and capacities between stakeholders. In the process of our engagement to these lanes we have found diverse groups of stakeholders who would like to contribute positively to how their neighbourhood develops. Interrelated challenges and opportunities arising from this project can help to stimulate positive contact, participation, empowerment and development across the neighbourhood. A neighbourhood waste management facility at the Living Room is a good start, and can be treated as a scaffold to other opportunities and problem HOSIER LANE & RUTLEDGE LANE project Have a say about your neighbourhood areas such as night time safety for women and homeless, and supporting elderly, frail and low income residents to GROUP INTERVIEW with clients of The Living Room cope with changed approaches to waste management. Friday 18 June Other recommendations presented are for short to medium 1:30PM - 2:30PM term actions on waste management, community & culture, at The Living Room film & television, health & safety and built & natural LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED environments. These actions can be implemented as stand- alone recommendations, or as integrated starting points in TO REGISTER SPEAK WITH ILANA or JOEL the longer-term project of strengthening and developing the Hosier Lane and Rutledge Lane neighbourhood. Fig 2-5 Engagement strategies clockwise from top left. Paste-ups inviting participation in web-based survey; attending a neighbourhood event in Rutledge Lane; a young male visitor to the lanes completing on-site survey; advertising a focus group with Clients of The Living Room. Fig 6 Spectrum of public participation 5 2_Table of recommendations Action Timeframe Level of public Stakeholders participation 1. WASTE MANAGEMENT 1.1 Provide & link resources, including design expertise, to Now Collaboration, Management of Living Room support feasability study and start-up of neighbourhood empowerment & Youth Projects. Waste waste management facility at Living Room. service providers. COM 1.2 Provide and link resources for immediate support to Now Collaboration, Tenants & OC of Macdonald tenants of Macdonald Building and Cavendish House as empowerment Building. Tenants & OC first customers of neighbourhood recycling facility. Focussed of Cavendish House. support for frail, elderly and low-income tenants who Management of The Living have limited capacity to adjust to challenges of new waste Room & Youth Projects. COM management practices. 1.3 Collaboration with local hospitality businesses and Short to Collaboration, Management of Living Living Room to ensure safe, healthy and environmentally medium empowerment Room. Management of local responsible waste management practices at neighbourhood term hospitality businesses. Waste recycling facility. service providers. COM. 1.4 Some groups have a gap in understanding of their Short to Collaboration, Tenants & OC of The responsibilities around dumping of hard waste. Focussed medium empowerment Cosmopolition building. education programs for CALD groups and international term COM. students - a large population is known to stay at The Cosmopolitan building - is needed to increase understanding and reduce dumping in Hosier Lane & Rutledge Lane. 1.5 Remove or recommission derelict bins in Rutledge Lane Now Involvement, Tenants & OC of Macdonald - likely to be ex-Cavendish House & Macdonald Building - collaboration Building. Tenants