WURUNDJERI WAY ROAD CLOSURE AND COLLINS ST BRIDGE DECLARATION

WURUNDJERI WAY ROAD CLOSURE AND COLLINS ST BRIDGE DECLARATION 30/08/2013 Beveridge Williams development & environment consultants

Parcels A & B are freehold • Parcel C - Wurundjeri Way • Road & Reserve • Parcel D owned by Public • Transport Development • Authority • Parcel E - Collins Street • Bridge THE SITE development & environment consultants

Feature of Wurundjeri Way • since 2002 • Sculpture is 25m high & weighs • approx. 20 tonnes. • Sits on a concrete base thought to • weigh 90 tonnes. • Designed by artist Bruce Armstrong • Movement of the Eagle will require • agreement and consent between: • The Wurundjeri Council • Melbourne City Council • Vic Roads • Places Victoria • Bruce Armstrong “BUNJIL” THE EAGLE development & environment consultants

Lend lease has won the tender to develop the entire site • The proposed development will include 100,000m² of office space • 600 Apartments in 7 towers • Construction of a public plaza • Approximate construction cost of 1.5 billion dollars • I’m not allowed to show you any impressive plans • Approval for the development will be by the Minister for Planning , • The Hon. Mr Matthew Guy………… not Melbourne City Council THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT BY LEND LEASE development & environment consultants

VIC ROADS - Land Owner - Professional Advice LEND LEASE - Developer - Key financier KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND INTERESTED PARTIES BEVERIDGE WILLIAMS - Surveying Services (Road Closure) - Professional Advice for Places Victoria PLACES VICTORIA - Land Owner - Developer MADIGAN SURVEYING - Surveying Services (Subdivision) - Professional Advice for Lend Lease PUBLIC TRANSPORT VIC - Land Owner MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL - Referral Authority - Professional advice development & environment consultants

Lot has been designed as a series of sloping and tilting planes • Lot design maximises the amount of developable land in airspace • The lot in airspace must not breach the 5.9m minimum clearance to the constructed road LOT IN AIRSPACE development & environment consultants

LOT IN AIRSPACE(CONTINUED) development & environment consultants

Multiple Sections required to clarify lower limits of the lot • Reduced levels computed to accord with intersection of the • relevant section with the outer edge of each tilted • plane NOT SO TYPICAL CROSS-SECTIONS development & environment consultants

The creation of the lot was designed and computed by Madigan • Surveying and verified by Beveridge Williams NOT SO TYPICAL CROSS-SECTIONS(CONTINUED) development & environment consultants

Discontinuance of Wurundjeri Way will take place under Section 12 of the • Road Management Act 2004 by notice in the Government Gazette • Some confusion on who the land vests in after its discontinuance • Crown has absolute property in Land over which there is an Arterial • Road or Freeway (Schedule 5 (1a) RMA 2004) • YET……… CREATION OF FREEHOLD TITLE TO BE INSERTED INTO MADIGANS STAGED SUBDIVSION development & environment consultants

If VicRoads has discontinued the use of a road or part of a road, it may in accordance with this clause sell the land on which the road or part of the road was located (Schedule 5 (15)(1) RMA 2004) • Legal Advice has been sought and the Victorian Government Solicitor has • advised: • - VicRoads can transfer land to a third party purchaser or • - Include this land within a Plan of Subdivision under Section 35 of the • Subdivision Act 1988 development & environment consultants

Bridge deck will be constructed to sit within the airspace lot (1.5 billion dollar • development will lie on top of the bridge deck) • Columns and Pile Caps will have to be sunk and constructed into Wurundjeri Way to • support the bridge deck: • Who is going to be responsible for them? • Are titles for the supports required? • Possible solutions included: • Leave the columns under the control of VicRoads • Create a Section 173 agreement that covers maintenance • Create (In conjunction with the O.S.G.) C.A.’s for the area covered by the deck and columns. FUTURE WORKS – CONSTRUCTION PHASE development & environment consultants

FUTURE WORKS – CONSTRUCTION PHASE (CONTINUED) • The agreed solution: • The columns and pile caps within the road will be located and discontinued • The titles will be inserted into the Madigans Staged Subdivision and become Common Property along with the deck that they support. • Owners Corporation will be responsible for maintenance of structure within Common Property • Owners Corporation must be fully funded, have the appropriate rules, regulations, insurance and procedures from its inception development & environment consultants

Collins Street Bridge has been accepted by the public and is on Melbourne City Councils • public register of roads • The bridge wasincorrectly declared as Docklands Hwy (Wurundjeri Way) in 2000 COLLINS STREET BRIDGE DECLARATION development & environment consultants

Declaration Survey of Collins Street Bridge Required: • Thorough search of Land Status • As-constructed survey of the bridge deck and piers • Search of historical design drawings for the bridge COLLINS STREET BRIDGE DECLARATION(CONTINUED) development & environment consultants

A best fit of our as-constructed survey with the design drawings for the • bridge revealed that one of the pile caps encroached into Wurundjeri Way • This is of particular importance as: • We do not want to discontinue any part • of the Collins Street bridge structure • We do not want to sink columns • (required for Lend Lease Development) • into pile caps COLLINS STREET BRIDGE DECLARATION(CONTINUED) development & environment consultants

Varying Depth and Height Limitations for Collins Street Bridge Declaration development & environment consultants

Jolimont Railyards • This project has been in the pipeline for years • Construction of a deck over the Railyards opens up Federation Square to the Yarra SIMILAR PROJECT…… DIFFERENT PROCESS development & environment consultants

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WURUNDJERI WAY ROAD CLOSURE AND COLLINS ST BRIDGE DECLARATION