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Planting into the Lagoon
The mulch has been spread. Soft rain is falling. Conditions are auspicious for you to add another layer of plants to the edge of Lagoon Reserve this Saturday between 10 and 12. Each year in May, Alice...
View ArticleNews in Port: week ending 29.05.2016
Fishermans Bend – change in emphasis Planning Minister Wynne has put out a revised vision for Fishermans Bend for feedback and contribution. The ungainly term FBURA has been dropped. It is Fishermans...
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Creative industries move on
Have you been to see the Jan Senbergs exhibition, Observation-Imagination, at the NGV yet? I first saw Senbergs work at the Port Melbourne Town Hall where it forms part of the City of Port Phillip’s...
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Grey reflections
‘The sharpness of things is going to soften, disappear’* grey from yellow – the Rex in Port Melbourne It started when they painted the Rex grey. And then I noticed how many other Port buildings were...
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News in Port Places: week ending 12 06 2016
Normanby Road is the focus of interest in Montague – sites for sale and development applications. A permit application has been lodged with the Minister for Planning for 179-185 Normanby Rd, formerly...
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Biodiversity Connections
Next to the Port footy ground, past the bike workshop, past the SES, is SKINC, a plant nursery dedicated to the plants of the Sandbelt – that part of our world from south of the Yarra to Frankston. The...
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Timber and the Dock
Cocooned in quiet at Library at the Dock, I love knowing that this Library rests lightly on the former wharf. History, present and inspiration for the future combine comfortably here in this 6 star...
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Todd Road Linear Park in Port Melbourne
Closed and open? Yes, both at once. The closure of Williamstown Road to Port bound traffic marks both the symbolic and practical completion of the Todd Road linear park in Port Melbourne. Gate closed,...
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Bayside, riverside, cityside
Fishermans Bend Public Conversation – an account A panel of industry experts made their pitch on a vision for Fishermans Bend to the audience in a highly interactive session held at Zinc in Federation...
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Moving out of Montague
Businesses are moving out of Montague to make way for the next phase in the life of this place. The Car Brokers on Montague St are leaving. Peeking over the cars through the showroom on Montague St,...
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A street in Port Melbourne
I’m fond of many streets in Port Melbourne, but if I had to choose one it would be Raglan St and these are the reasons why. It has to start with the magnificent Moreton Bay fig tee at the North Port...
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Making an impression
That’s what artist and printmaker Liz Milsom has been doing in the Port Phillip community for over thirty years. Liz is a local artist in the fullest possible expression of ‘local’. Her materials and...
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What’s next for Westgate Park?
People often pay tribute to La Trobe’s foresight in setting aside land for the great inner urban parks of Melbourne – including the Domain Parklands and the Royal Botanic Gardens. Lord Mayor Robert...
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Mini urban makeovers
They’re on a roll, our Council, breaking up the bitumen to put the nature back into naturestrips, roundabouts, medians and kerb extensions in the most far reaching transformation of Port’s streets...
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Aliens
Reflections from a return visit to South Africa after 37 years Aliens. This is the word used to describe invasive plants in South Africa. The list of invader plants includes several of the wattles now...
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Glimpse of the future in Wirraway
Sometimes, though rarely, a glimpse of the future comes briefly into focus, before blurring away again. Marcel has moved out. He used to have the corner cafe in Centre Avenue in Garden City, a...
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The seasons come again
It’s yellow with wattle in parks in Port Places and like colonial journalist Garryowen/Edmund Finn I am ‘wooed by the fragrant acacias, shaking their golden blossom curls’. In August a century ago,...
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Melbourne Day unease
It’s raining lightly on Melbourne Day, 30th August – the 181st birthday of Melbourne. This morning Lord Mayor Robert Doyle raised the Melbourne Flag in a ceremony at Enterprize Park. The park is named...
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From North Wharf to Northbank
Berth No 5, North Wharf between the Charles Grimes and the Seafarers Bridge is the last un-renovated, un-madeover part of the north bank of the Yarra between Docklands and the CBD. That is about to...
View ArticleState Government buys GMH site
The state government has purchased the 37.7 hectare General Motors Holden (GMH) site at Fishermans Bend, paving the way for plans to develop a leading design and engineering precinct. Local member...
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