I’m delighted to be launching today, the innovative and ambitious planning Framework
for Fishermans Bend.
The biggest urban renewal redevelopment site in the country.
It’s going to be home to 80,000 people who are going to be living there and a further
80,000 people who are going to be employed in Fishermans Bend.
I’m pleased the community have had a really excellent chance to have an input into this
planning Framework because we want to ensure people can work and live in this precinct
and get around this precinct really easily.
We expect that 6 per cent of housing development in the area will be affordable housing to
ensure that everybody has an opportunity to live in this really well planned urban precinct.
We will ensure that Fishermans Bend is a great place to live, where we will have schools,
we will have public open space, we will have all of the amenity that people ought to expect
in this new residential precinct.
Our key partners, the City of Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip have done so much
of the planning work to ensure that we are going to have a comprehensive response to
the redevelopment of Fishermans Bend.
And I’m delighted that we have a new governance board which is going to be chaired by Meredith
Sussex, one of the great urban thinkers.
What a fantastic opportunity to finally get the planning for Fishermans Bend right.
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