Planning Blog 4: Urban redevelopment- Docklands, Melbourne

One of the most interesting things that was found when doing the research for this case study was the two main plans and a construction standard’s document used for the development of the Melbourne Docklands. These documents were the Docklands Community and Place Plan, the Docklands Public Realm Plan and the Docklands Design and Construction Standards. 

The Docklands Community and Place Plan was a broad plan on what the community wanted to see for the developing area of Melbourne Docklands. It had three main themes and underlying each of those themes were three strategic directions as shown by the diagram below. One of the major themes that intrigued me the most was the theme of creating 21st Century City and more specifically the strategic direction of an Eco Docklands. It was interesting to know that Docklands had the highest green star accredited commercial buildings in Australia. Showing Australia, it’s a leader in green infrastructure. The community priorities for this area was to continue this Eco Docklands (Docklands 2014).

Source: The Docklands Community and Place Plan 2014

The second plan was a much more in depth and detailed document. It was the Docklands Public Realm Plan, and one of the main aspects that was really well done in this plan was highlighting specific public space areas such as the example used in the presentation which was Quay Park, NewQuay. This in depth examining of specific areas helped to get an understanding of what the plan wanted for the area in the future and how the plan was hoping to achieve those aims (Victorian Government 2014).  

The last document was less relevant because it was basically more for developers and the code of the building decisions in Docklands. This document was called the Docklands Design and Construction Standards. It went into thorough detail of what developers could or could not do in the Docklands area (Victorian Government 2014). All of these plans and documents were very interesting and I recommend everyone should have a read of them.

 

 

 

Bibliography

Docklands, (2014). Melbourne Docklands is the largest urban renewal development in Australia under construction. It is managed by Places Victoria.. [online] Available at: http://www.docklands.com/cs/Satellite?pagename=Docklands2 [Accessed 22 Apr. 2014].

Victorian Government, (2014). Docklands Community and Place Plan - City of Melbourne. [online] Available at: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/PrecinctsandSuburbs/Docklands/Pages/DocklandsCommunityPlacePlan.aspx [Accessed 26 Apr. 2014].

Victorian Government, (2014). Docklands Design and Construction Standards - City of Melbourne. [online] Available at: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/PrecinctsandSuburbs/Docklands/Pages/DocklandsDesignConstructionStandards.aspx [Accessed 22 Apr. 2014].

Victorian Government, (2014). Docklands Public Realm Plan - City of Melbourne. [online] Available at: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/PrecinctsandSuburbs/Docklands/Pages/DocklandsPublicRealmPlan.aspx [Accessed 27 Apr. 2014].