fishermans bend plan 4 -50,0000 new residents

Note, the residents quite rightly suggest they have a case for nimbyism.....they dont want or need more eye sores like
Docklands, or Southbank...

but look on the bright side....thousands more boxes, in the inner city to house those, that will only live in the city centre

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Mr Guy will rezone 240 hectares of land at Fishermans Bend into four new CBD-style mini-suburbs in Port Melbourne and South Melbourne to accommodate 50,000 future residents, with government development agency Places Victoria to oversee the changes for the next 30 years.

The new suburbs of Wirraway, Sandridge, Montague and Lorimer would include high-rise apartment buildings, townhouses, offices, parks and art galleries, Mr Guy said.

Fishermans Bend will now fall inside the capital city zone and Mr Guy will rule on planning applications that are taller than four storeys, involving more than 60 dwellings or more than 10,000 square metres of floor space.

Elsewhere in the city the trigger for ministerial intervention is set much higher, at 25,000 square metres.

CBD residents have long complained that in the capital city zone they have no right of notification about neighbouring developments, no right of objection and no right of appeal over decisions taken by the minister on applications in excess of 25,000 square metres.



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