If necessary, the location for the various Community Hubs could be fixed in the Precinct Plan or in the ICP if it is used for funding the Community Hubs. In the interim, it is intended that the broader ‘investigation area’ identified in the MSS plan (and the Framework) for Community Hubs should remain. Amend active frontages in DDO30 and CCZ1 to (see figure 11): Replace Primary Active Frontages along Plummer Street between Smith Street (and its extension) and Prohasky Street and between the two north south streets, east of Salmon Street with Secondary Active Frontages. CCZ Map 1C – Urban Structure circulated on 14 May 2018 and updated with this precinct closing submission identifies active frontages and distinguishes between Primary frontages (80% permeability); Secondary Type 1 (60% permeability) and Secondary Type 2 . The distinction between frontage types has been introduced to respond to the COPP submissions and to the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area Retail Assessment, Essential Economics (Document 196). The revised Part C controls and associated maps provide a more refined response to active frontages and distinguish between three types of streets: Primary active streets – these will be the core retail streets with almost continuous shop frontages (80% with doorways at a minimum of 10 metres); Secondary active streets type 1 – these will be streets which retain a high degree of activity (60%) but which will allow for larger format premises (doorways further apart at 15 metres minimum separation). These streets are more likely to include premises such as medical practices and the like at ground floor.
The Minister supports revisions to the boundary of the core area to clarify conditions where there are adjoining proposed roads and to incorporate the land required for the road into a core to support higher density over the balance of the land available for development. Suggest that the area of greater development intensity should be extended north and south, out from the linear corridor of Plummer Street, in the vicinity of Salmon Street. In relation to the key area in the Wirraway Precinct, around the intersection of Plummer Street and Salmon Street, recommend: The 24 storey (80.6 metres) preferred maximum height to the north and south. The Minister does not accept this recommendation. The land to the south of Plummer Street is already 24 storeys and to the north is 12 storeys to provide solar protection to the street. A maximum preferred height of 24 storeys (80.6 metres) on both of Plummer Street, generally between Smith Street and JL Murphy Reserve. The Minister does not accept this recommendation for the north side of Plummer St for the reasons given above c) Building heights should graduate down towards Williamstown Road, to 12 storeys (42.2 metres), where currently shown as 4 storeys (15.4 metres) discretionary, and 8 storeys (29.4 metres) with the possibility of an upper level setback of up to 10 storeys (35.8 metres), along the north side of Williamstown Road (where currently shown as 4 storey mandatory). The Minister does not accept this recommendation. Heights of 10 and 12 storeys do not provide adequate transiton to the exisiting heritage protected residential neighbourhood to the south. 359 Plummer Street (Wirraway)