DENSE LIVING | Fishermans Bend: anatomy of a high-rise - TopicsExpress



          

DENSE LIVING | Fishermans Bend: anatomy of a high-rise ghetto Theres a brothel planned down the road but no milk bar. The nearest train station is three kilometres away, the tram, a 20-minute walk. Schools and childcare? Forget it. Yet hundreds of Melburnians could eventually be living at this Port Melbourne address, courtesy of Planning Minister Matthew Guys decision to open this site and a swath of industrial land around it to residential and commercial development two years ago. If the housing market permits, a slew of towers up to 73 levels could soon appear willy-nilly across this sprawling landscape as if plonked by spaceship, part of the largest urban renewal project in Australia - Fishermans Bend. SPP: SPP is RedefiningGrowth. Real growth includes more affordable, well-planned and desirable housing. Vote 1 SUSTAINABLE
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:56:26 +0000

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