About the Save Williamstown Campaign for

Appropriate Sustainable Development

What the developers want on the Williamstown Pt Gellibrand Peninsula near the Timeball Tower:

1. •816 dwellings & up to 2000 new residents on 2.7 hectares
   

2. •20% increase in Williamstown Population.
   

3. •Three High Rise Towers up to 50 or 60m high (20 storeys)
   

4. •Demolish 1854 Heritage Oriental Hotel
   

5. •Twice as many dwellings as the Minister’s Port Phillip Woollen Mill Advisory Committee considered
   

and why it is wrong for Williamstown:

1. •Destroys Heritage
   

2. •Too close to the Shipyards
   

3. •Too close to Mobil MHF(includes feeder arms on jetty, pipelines & tank farm with tanks up to 40m diameter) and Fuel Importation Ships flagged overseas
   

4. •Destroys nationally significant jobs
   

5. •Overwhelms schools, child care and community services
   

6. •Makes Williamstown less FAMILY FRIENDLY
   

7. •Overburdens Roads and Traffic
   

8. •Tourists will be squeezed out of the peninsula
   

See Issues

Current Applications and recent decisions

Demolition of the Woollen Mills without the archaeological records required by VCAT. Hobsons Bay Council allowed deep excavation.

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage ignored in place of first settlement.

STAGE 1A plans approved by VCAT Dec 2013

Corner of Ann St and Nelson Place -
Lots 1, 2 and 3

1. •Developer permitted to demolish Oriental Hotel 1850 (oldest three storey building in Victoria - Pre Separation from Colony of NSW)
   

2. •Approval for 142 dwellings on 3 house blocks up to 7 storeys high
   

STAGE 2 - plans approved by VCAT July 2014
between Kanowna, Cecil, Aitken and Windsor Terrace inc. Nugget Factory

Lots 10, 11 and 12

1. •Developer seeks to demolish heritage Nugget Factory c1888
   

2. •Build up to 169 dwellings
   

3. •Build townhouses for families in an area which Worksafe advises against because it is too close the Mobil MHF includes fuel importation - residents could not organise and respond to an emergency
   

4. •Building height 36m 9 Storey high rise residential tower with glass balconies
   

5. •Mobil told Council’s Special Planning Committee this site is unsuitable for high rise residential towers. In the event of a boilover at the crude oil tanks, catastrophic shards of glass could rain down on existing residences glass in the high rise tower.
   

6. •VCAT sat 4 weeks of February 2014 & 1 week in May 2014 to hear this case
   

STAGE 3 - future plans - may include 2 residential towers up to 60m high