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ST KILDA’S TRIANGLE SITE - WHAT LOCALS WANT

Over the last three weeks the community has been voicing their protest on the savestkilda.org.au website. Thousands and thousands of petitioners have been fighting against the over-development of the St Kilda Triangle Site and the abolition of planning appeal rights. As a result, the City of Port Phillip (CoPP) has dumped the Fox consortium’s ‘Chadstone-like’ proposal from the tender process.

But the fight isn’t over. The Triangle Site could STILL be in danger of becoming a ‘mini-Chadstone by the bay’.

The community STILL doesn’t know what the final two bidders are proposing.

The community STILL doesn’t know whether these two developers have incorporated significant ‘public space’ in their proposals.

CoPP want to turn the Triangle Site into a ‘vibrant entertainment precinct’. What does this mean? Will it become a cinema complex, bowling alleys, a skating rink, or even a discothèque?
The problem is, the community STILL doesn’t know.

This is a publicly owned site. CoPP is running a development project worth over $350 million. The community has a right to know what’s going on. Why all the secrecy?

 

With so many questions, the community is demanding answers:

  1. Ask CoPP to show the community the Fox consortium’s plans. The community wants to see what CoPP originally shortlisted but now regards as inappropriate;
  2. Ask CoPP to open up the whole process and let the community see what the final two bidders are planning and let the community decide which one it wants - if any. Planning appeal rights should be restored. The community should be ‘allowed’ to have its say. It’s public land, after all;
  3. Ask the State Government to invest in the refurbishment of Melbourne’s iconic, heritage-listed Palais Theatre. It’s a State Government asset and should be treated as such. Why can the government spend so much of the public purse on Federation Square (total cost $440 million) and the redevelopment of Olympic Park Stadium ($149 million government contribution) but not cough up one cent for the refurbishment of the heritage-listed Palais Theatre?
  4. Ask CoPP and the State Government, ‘what will become of our heritage-listed Luna Park now the Fox consortium is out of the running?’ Lindsay Fox purchased Luna Park in mid 2005 for more than $7million with plans to ‘restore it to the glory of his youth’ – will that happen now?


AND MAY ST KILDA’S SOUL BE SAVED.