Montague Background_Paper.pdf - City of Port Phillip

Clause 21.06-5 (South Melbourne) outlines
current policy for the two precincts within Montague.
For Boundary Street Industrial 3 Zone, policy seeks
to encourage light industrial, service business and
warehouses uses.
For South Melbourne West Industrial Precinct,
relevant policy seeks to encourage new uses that
support the important strategic role of this area in
providing a location for a range of industrial and
warehouse activities.
Key objectives of Clause 22.04 (Heritage Policy)
(including the Port Phillip Heritage Review and
Heritage Policy Map) seeks to:
• To retain and conserve all significant and
contributory heritage places.
• To discourage the demolition of significant and
contributory heritage places.
• To ensure all new development and
redevelopment of significant and contributory
places is respectfully and harmoniously integrated
with the surrounding character.
• To ensure that reconstruction and repair of
significant heritage bluestone kerb and
channelling, bluestone laneways and significant
concrete kerb and channel is carried out in a way
that reflects as closely as possible the original
appearance.
Key objectives of Clause 22.05 (Subdivision
Policy) include:
• To ensure public open space contributions are
made at the point of subdivision.
Clause 22.06 (Urban Design Policy) includes
pertinent objectives for Montague relating to Public
Realm, Street Level Frontages, Landmarks, Views
and Vistas, Large Sites, Energy and Resource
Efficiency, Building Design., Landscape, Public Open
Spaces, Private and Communal Open Space,
Residential Amenity and Car Parking and Pedestrian
Access.
Key objectives include to:
• Achieve high quality urban design and
architecture that responds to the context of the
place.
• Encourage new development to protect and
enhance pedestrian spaces, streets, squares,
parks, public space and walkways.
• Minimise adverse micro-climatic impacts such as
overshadowing and wind tunnelling.
• Encourage the design of building frontages at
footpath level to offer visual interest, passive
surveillance, social interaction, safety, shelter and
convenience.
• Require pedestrian entrances to buildings to be
clearly visible and easily identifiable from streets
and other public areas.
• Encourage windows, terraces and balconies at
lower building levels to offer surveillance of
adjacent public areas.
• Require all buildings to be accessible at groundfloor
level to people with limited mobility.
• Require pedestrian amenities including seating,
lighting and public art to create a safe and
interesting pedestrian environment.
• Encourage large sites to be developed and
subdivided in a manner that provides pedestrian
permeability through the block.
• Require all new developments where the Total
Project Cost exceeds two million dollars to
provide an urban art contribution.
• Require that new private or communal open
space areas receive a minimum of four hours of
sunlight between the hours of 9.00am and
3.00pm on 22 September.
• Ensure that existing habitable room windows and
private open space areas of neighbouring
residential properties are protected from direct
overlooking/
Policy for Areas Adjoining Montague
The MSS also provides policy relating to the areas
adjoining Montague.
City Road Wedge (within South Melbourne
Central):
Clause 21.06-5 (South Melbourne) seeks to:
• Direct quality, higher density residential
development to this Precinct, with retail and
commercial at ground level (e.g. conference,
function or exhibition centre, school or
university campus, indoor recreation or leisure
facilities or a health club).
• Encourage a mixture of land uses, both across
the Precinct and vertically.
• Support ‘out of centre’ and restricted retail
premises where they will not detrimentally
impact on the core retailing role of the activity
centre (SMC) and an appropriate built form can
be achieved consistent with the Design and
Development Overlay.
• Ensure that business activity does not result in an
undue loss of amenity to nearby residential
properties.
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