AUGUST ISSUE 100 PRICELESS WWW.DOCKLANDSNEWS.COM.AU : Docklands_News ISSUE Bethany Williams editor WELCOME TO THE 100TH EDITION OF DOCKLANDS NEWS For more than 10 years now we've been delivering news and views from postcode 3008. While I haven’t been with the paper since its See if you can work out who’s who! inception in 2003, I have had the opportunity We’ve also included a photo spread, with to witness the value of local media over the plenty of images from our archives, again past two years. featuring plenty of familiar faces. Docklands News aims not only to provide the In celebrating this milestone, it’s also local community with information, but also important to recognise everyone who has to provide an outlet for expression. supported the publication right from the start. A place to share opinions, to draw attention to Our advertisers, without whom we wouldn’t important issues, to revel in good news and to be able to publish the newspaper each highlight everything that makes Docklands a month, the contributors and columnists who great place to live, work and visit. have helped to fi ll the pages of each edition In producing each edition I am always and the readers who have shared news, struck by just how much is happening in provided feedback and picked up a copy of Docklands, how interested local residents the paper each month. and workers are in what’s happening around Last, but certainly not least, an enormous them and how important a fact-driven, amount of credit must be given to the owner informative local newspaper is to building of the paper, Shane Scanlan, who has made community. the paper what it is today. To celebrate our 100th issue, we’ve included We hope to continue our role as “the voice a special edition wrap, which captures many of Docklands” and look forward to sharing of the personalities who have been featured more stories from the waterfront in issue 101 in the paper throughout the previous 99 and beyond. editions. A big thank you to Michael Lindell for all of his had work creating these amazing caricatures. We've included a list of the Bethany Williams identities featured below. Editor FIND THE FOLLOWING DOCKLANDERS FEATURED ON THE SPECIAL EDITION COVER. Glen Lucas Bill Reid Nandini Bose Shane Scanlan Glen Donnelly Andrew Buxton Michael Lindell Bethany Williams Daniel Cole David Napier Peter Harris Ticket inspector Greg Hackett Stephen Clement Peter and Lyn Kelly Th e Wheel Roger Gardener Claire Johnston Michelle Anderson Webb Bridge Keith Rankin Matthew Guy Andrew Ward Th e Wind Jeff Gordon Robert Doyle Anita Paganoni Fireworks Sally Hewitt and Coco Hatem Saleh Emily Ballantyne-Brodie Alan and Joh Maxwell Renzo Mammolito Melissa Head AUGUST ISSUE 100 PRICELESS WWW.DOCKLANDSNEWS.COM.AU : Docklands_News ISSUE Local regatta just around A new perspective the corner on Docklands Page 3 Page 6 Questions over ferry Fresh focus for new Docklands announcement Spaces project Page 5 Page 11 Fishermans Bend bridge remains a long-term option Th e Fishermans Bend tram bridge remains a long-term transport option, despite opposition from the Yarra’s Edge community. Th e bridge was included as a possible tram Th e City of Port Phillip has been route in the Fishermans Bend Strategic Plan, campaigning for the tram bridge to go ahead released on July 28, but Planning Minister and Mayor Amanda Stevens welcomed Matthew Guy said there were no plans for its inclusion at the launch of the strategic the bridge “in the immediate term”. framework plan. “Th at’s a long term option, which is being “We are delighted with the inclusion of the given as a possible way forward and I think it proposed Collins St tram extension to the should be in there,” Mr Guy said. strategic framework plan,” Cr Stevens said. Th e bridge was mooted in the Fishermans “Early delivery of new tram, walk and bike Bend draft vision last year and was met by links is key to encouraging developers to outcry from the Yarra’s Edge community, invest in a high-quality, job-creating mix of who formed a committee of residents commercial, retail and residential property.” and marina tenants in opposition to the Th e council had even gone so far as proposed transport link. commissioning a possible design for the “Since the draft plan was released in 2013, bridge and spoke to Docklands News Mr Darcy turns heads the entire Yarra’s Edge community, including about why the council was pushing for marina and tower residents have faced the transport link before the release of the Docklands hosted a unique visitor this month, when a giant increased uncertainty as to the future of strategic framework plan. their local environs, including access to the Cr Stevens said the City of Port Phillip was statue of Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy took up residence on marina for all boats and the likely loss of the pushing for the tram bridge in order to only green space at Point Park,” committee Harbour Esplanade. ensure the development was not car-based. member Philip Lack said. According to Cr Stevens, a cost-benefi t Modelled after Colin Firth, the statue “Th e statue was acquired through the He said the committee wouldn’t be happy analysis of seven possible options performed (pictured above) replicates the iconic National Trust UK, where it was originally until the prospect of any bridge crossing by Places Victoria when preparing the wet-shirt scene from the BBC adaption of placed in London’s Hyde Park Serpentine between Point Park and Collins Landing was Fishermans Bend draft vision indicated the Pride and Prejudice, in which he played the Lake before making the trip down under,” entirely removed from the strategic plan. tram bridge was the best public transport famous literary character. National Trust Victoria’s Drew Grove said. “We will continue to lobby hard on this as the option. Standing at 3.5 metres high, the statue Places Victoria assisted with the installation state election approaches and will continue to She said the council was advocating for the was placed at Berth 8, near the Cow up a of the statue and general manager Simon highlight the immediate impact this proposal bridge based on this evidence. Tree and was brought to Melbourne by the Wilson said the team was excited about the is having on our community both fi nancially National Trust Victoria. visit from the British icon. and emotionally,” Mr Lack said. Continued on page 2. YOUR DOCKLANDS CONVEYANCING EXPERT 1223/401 Docklands Drive, Docklands VIC 3008, (03) 8640 9002 www.anchorconveyancing.com.au / [email protected] 2 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 100 Fishermans Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Bend plan PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 Tel: 8689 7979 Fax: 9602 2929 www.docklandsnews.com.au approved Advertising Greg Hackett: 0412 262 315 Tel: 8689 7979 Fax: 9602 2929 Planning Minister Matthew [email protected] Guy last month approved Th e tram bridge remains on maps included in the strate- Th e bridge design commissioned by City of Port Phillip. Reader contributions are welcome. gic framework plan. the fi nal master plan for Please send articles and images to [email protected] Fishermans Bend. Th e deadline for the August edition is Th e 250 hectare suburb, which neighbours August 28. Docklands, is expected to be developed into Tram bridge a a residential and commercial hub over the Published by Shane Scanlan. Edited by Bethany Williams. next 40 years, expanding the existing CBD. According to Mr Guy, the Fishermans Bend Follow us on Twitter long-term option Strategic Framework Plan will guide the @Docklands_News development of the precinct Continued from page 1. Th e strategic framework plan sets out four Like us on Facebook key elements; street network, sustainable Docklands News Th e Metropolital Planning Authority (MPA) required to be in all section 32 notices for transport, open space and a series of is the current authority for Fishermans Bend apartments sold in the area. places as guiding principles for Fishermans To download our iPad app, and a spokesperson said the Government Bend. Alongside design guidelines, these “It’s already having a direct economic simply scan the QR code below: had investigated a range of public transport key elements aim to provide direction to impact,” Mr Lack said. options for Fishermans Bend and said these development applicants. would be presented to the public once they Mr Lack maintains there are alternative “Fishermans Bend is Australia’s most were further developed. options for public transport to Fishermans signifi cant urban renewal project and this Bend, including the Montague Station, Th e spokesperson did not confi rm if a cost- plan provides a long-term framework for which received funding in the recent State benefi t analysis had indicated the bridge to a precinct that will transform Melbourne Budget. be the best public transport option. by linking the CBD to Port Phillip Bay, According to Planning Minister Matthew supporting 40,000 new jobs and providing Cr Stevens said the council was committed Guy, Fishermans Bend will initially be served homes for at least 80,000 residents,” Mr Guy to working with the group at Yarra’s Edge by a spur from the 109 tramline. said. and hoped to clarify assumptions around the potential design of the bridge. “I think in the fi rst instance we can get a spur As reported on Page 1, the tram bridge from the 109 tram through the developer proposed in the Fishermans Bend draft According to Cr Stevens, one assumption contributions, which are quite sizable, as vision remains a long-term option, to is that the bridge would destroy Point Park, you can imagine, and we can do that fairly the disappointment of the Yarra’s Edge but she said the council supported a link promptly,” he said.