Melbourne
Your City Of Melbourne Magazine
October – November 2015
Contents
Future Melbourne 2015 4
Enduring city businesses 4
Your Say 5
Letter of the month 5
Will there be a hard waste collection this spring? 5
Participate Melbourne 5
Places for People study captures local life 6
Rail tunnel goes high tech 6
Melbourne’s signature style 7
Clever maps pave way to a greener city 7
Agile cities act globally on climate change 8
Help us reduce emission 8
Own or live in a residential apartment? 8
Smart Blocks: 8
GreenMoney: 8
High-rise recycling: 8
Own or rent a commercial office building? 8
1200 Buildings and CitySwitch: 8
Environmental Upgrade Finance: 9
A ticket to success 10
Melbourne Music Week 2015: First acts released 11
Showcase 11
Live Music Safari presented by Jack Daniel’s Future Legends 11
Self-Made presented by Levi’s 11
Industry 11
Kids/Family 11
Flagship venue 11
Melbourne Knowledge Week highlights 13
The Human Library 13
Mini make day 13
CityLAB: exploring urban futures 13
Gamify your boring life 13
Women stand out in social enterprise 14
Rehousing scheme helps women and children at risk 14
A host of golden daffodils 15
Events calendar 16
4 to 11 October Victorian Seniors Festival 16
Until 22 November Wominjeka: A new beginning 16
5 to 16 October Carer’s Project: A sanctuary in the city 16
8 to 25 October Melbourne Festival 16
11 October Meyers Place Latin Fiesta 16
11 October Malaysia Street Festival 16
17 and 18 October SIGNAL: Resin as form 16
18 October Spring Fling Street Festival 17
19 to 25 October Knowledge Week 2015 17
1 to 30 November The Age Good Food Month 17
6 to 7 November Diwali Indian Festival of Light 17
7 October to 19 November ArtPlay: Inside out 17
10 November 2015 Myer Christmas Windows unveiled 17
13 to 20 November Melbourne Music Week 2015 17
12 to 29 November Night Noodle Markets 18
15 November Polish Festival 18
20 November Human Walking Program 18
27 November 2015 Christmas Festival 18
28 November Our Christmas Gift 18
29 November Thessaloniki and Melbourne Sister City Festival 18
2 November to 24 December City Gallery: Executed in Franklin Street 18
Sport 19
11 October Around the Bay 19
31 October to 7 November Melbourne Cup Carnival and Parade 19
14 October RIDE2WORK DAY 19
15 November Eureka Climb, Eureka Tower 19
Volunteering raises students’ spirits 20
Building Christmas cheer brick by brick 20
Kids on a roll with meals on big wheels 21
Jump into the deep end this spring 21
October opening hours: 21
Weekdays: 21
Saturday and Sunday: 21
November to March opening hours: 21
Weekdays: 21
Saturday and Sunday: 22
Fixing the world, one toaster at a time 22
In brief 23
Melbourne Awards 2015 23
Annual Report 2014–15 Released 23
Australian Institute Of Architects Awards 23
Bells Competition 23
Free Seniors’ Christmas Celebration 23
Your Council 24
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor Robert Doyle 24
Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley 24
Cr Richard Foster 24
Cr Rohan Leppert 24
Cr Kevin Louey 24
Cr Stephen Mayne 24
Cr Cathy Oke 24
Cr Ken Ong 24
Cr Beverley Pinder-Mortimer 25
Cr Jackie Watts 25
Cr Arron Wood 25
Postal address for all Councillors 25
Council meetings October 2015 26
Council meetings November 2015 26
Lord Mayor’s Commendations 27
David Bower: Neo Technologies 27
Contact 28
National Relay Service 28
In person 28
Postal address 28
Feedback 28
Audio version 28
Lord Mayor’s Message
The City of Melbourne is a Knowledge City. Is there another local government in Australia that has built and opened three new libraries in the past three years? I think Melbourne is leading with this trend.
We opened the Southbank Library at Boyd in 2012, Library at the Dock in 2014 (the first civic 6 Star Green Star building in Australia) and just recently we unveiled the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre in Carlton.
This is the inner city; home to great knowledge institutions such as the State Library of Victoria, the University of Melbourne and RMIT, and yet we have opened three new community libraries, two of which are housed in former school buildings, repurposed to fit the needs of 21st century learning.
We create community infrastructure plans for each of the precincts in our city. We knew that we needed a library in Carlton and it needed to be a community-style library. Then we had the challenge of finding a site.
The sale of the Royal Women’s Hospital to the University of Melbourne in 2010 presented an opportunity to carve off a part of that site, which was the historic public school, built in 1876. Following the school’s closure in 1972, the building became the Kathleen Syme Education Centre: a training facility for Royal Women’s Hospital nurses.
Here was a building in central Carlton with a connection to Carlton history and education. It was an ideal site. The City of Melbourne purchased it for $4.88 million in 2011.
And in 2015 it has reclaimed its rightful place at the centre of the Carlton community; a community that will see a 28 per cent increase in its population in the next 20 years.
This new $15.5 million facility will provide the people of Carlton with a new civic heart. Kathleen Syme offers a traditional collection of more than 40,000 items as well as a social enterprise cafe, computer rooms, conference rooms and bookable meeting spaces. It features facilities for people who want to watch a big screen TV, hear from authors, explore the world of 3D printing, or use a recording studio.
Active library membership has doubled in the City of Melbourne in the past four years and we now have more than one million people through the doors of our libraries annually.
Libraries are so much more than book repositories. They are part of the social and community glue that turns a group of houses and buildings into a community.
Future Melbourne 2015
Melbourne is changing faster than many realise and in ways that few of us can predict.
With a residential population that will approach 200,000 in the next 10 years the City of Melbourne is in the forefront of change. Towards 2026, we are renewing the city’s long-term community plan – with the active participation of all those who use a city renowned for its arts, sport and medical research strengths and for a vibrant retail and hospitality sector.
Melbourne is likely to face real challenges from digital disruption, a changing climate and an evolving economy. Yet these are also the very areas in which our city can lead. Future Melbourne 2026 seeks ideas from all Melburnians to shape our future as a creative, connected and prosperous city.
‘Future Melbourne 2026 presents a unique opportunity to influence our city. We’ll be encouraging everyone who lives, works, studies or visits our city to share their thoughts about what matters most to them, and to give us their bold and creative ideas,’ said City of Melbourne CEO, Ben Rimmer.
Future Melbourne began in 2007 and helped guide major City of Melbourne projects such as the redevelopment of Swanston Street, and the urban forest strategy.
‘Looking ahead to 2026, the city has compelling reasons to revisit its community plan. Massive urban renewal projects like Fisherman’s Bend and Melbourne Metro are about to begin. The transformation of City Road and the Queen Victoria Market Precinct Renewal also provide opportunities for good forward thinking,’ Mr Rimmer said.
This month the City of Melbourne will start gathering ideas to shape the new plan in 2016. Six respected Melburnians, with a passion for the city, will guide a process that is inclusive and accessible.
Future Melbourne 2026 will be launched at the Smart City leadership event, part of Knowledge Week, in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 19 October.
For more information, visit Participate Melbourne[1].
Enduring city businesses
Small local businesses play an important role in Melbourne’s economy and every year this contribution is celebrated through the Lord Mayor’s Commendations.
This year 64 small business proprietors were recognised on 24 August, across five commendation categories: generational, platinum, gold, silver and bronze.
The Talbot family received the generational commendation for their 105-year-old, family-run stand at the Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market in West Melbourne. In the platinum category Creative Wigs proprietor, Abe Lourie, was recognised for his 58 years in business in Swanston Street. Gold commendations went to Kay Craddock of the Antiquarian Bookseller, jeweller William Eckstein of W. Eckstein & Co. and Ted Dziadkiewicz from Contours Travel, to acknowledge their 40 plus years of continuous business.
Forty-two bronze and 17 silver commendations were also given to businesses with more than 10 and more than 25 years respectively, of continuous business.
For a complete list of recipients go to Lord Mayor's Commendations[2].
Your Say
Letter of the month
Thank you to the gardeners and the council for taking the time to plant these beautiful flowers so thoughtfully to remind us that spring is just around the corner. It is so wonderful to see such a thing of beauty, for beauty’s sake. Walking this avenue of gold has become the highlight of my day.
With great warmth, Megan Jordan
Will there be a hard waste collection this spring?
All residential ratepayers in the City of Melbourne are entitled to one free hard waste collection a year. We also run a Spring Clean program with an additional free, hard/green waste collection made over three weekends in November:
Saturday 14 November – Kensington, West Melbourne, Port Melbourne
Saturday 21 November – CBD, Docklands, Southbank, Jolimont, East Melbourne, South Yarra
Saturday 28 November – North Melbourne, Carlton, Parkville
Bookings are essential, and can be made online or by phone on 9658 9658.
For more information on what items are suitable for collection, how much you can put out, and to make a booking, visit Spring Clean[3].
Participate Melbourne
Have your say online at Participate Melbourne[4].
Market renewal approved
The final Queen Victoria Market Precinct Renewal Master Plan was approved by Council in late July. The next step in the renewal project is the development of an implementation strategy. This strategy will outline the timeframe and staging of market renewal projects.
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Places for People study captures local life
Every 10 years the City of Melbourne conducts Places for People, a study that investigates the urban conditions of central Melbourne. The study examines how the city has changed and identifies improvements for the future.
Places for People 2015 was the third iteration of a longitudinal study begun in 1993. The results of the 2015 study will be used to inform future planning and the development of Melbourne as a resilient city.
The study included both qualitative and quantitative research, with community engagement activities including pop-up stands, hand-drawn mind maps and a specific neighbourhood survey.
More than 300 residents and almost 200 workers responded to the neighbourhood survey designed to capture key aspects of local living and many expressed a desire for a more localised environment.
One respondent said: ‘Southbank is good, but I don’t access City Road... it is just too confusing and too claustrophobic with all the concrete, traffic and high-rise buildings. The architecture and vibe of the river is just so much more appealing’.
Meanwhile a city resident said: ‘My local neighbourhood is quiet and peaceful. It’s away from the busy parts of the CBD so it’s not what people expect. I am so close to amazing coffee and food and it’s wonderful being able to go to Queen Vic Market every weekend. I can go between cooking beautiful fresh meals in my apartment to having high-quality restaurant food delivered to me whenever I please’.
The data collected during the survey and the subsequent analysis will enable urban specialists to understand the city, and its functionality, in a new way. The study also ties in with Council’s Knowledge City strategy by informing public dialogue and sharing knowledge.
Rail tunnel goes high tech
The Victorian Government’s Melbourne Metro Rail Project is set to use special tunnel boring machines to complete the most complex section of the project.
The machines will minimise disruption to surrounding areas, while tunnelling below the Yarra River.
The machines have specialised cutting heads designed to cope with both the soft river soil and the hard rock below.
Tunnel boring machines have long been used on major projects in densely populated areas, such as the Sydney Metro and London’s Crossrail project.
For more information, visit the Melbourne Metro Rail Project[5].
Melbourne’s signature style
Melbourne’s first permanent outdoor table-tennis table is the latest addition to a suite of outdoor furniture designed by the City of Melbourne.
The table’s sleek frame consists of a continuous rolled steel tube, inspired by a humble paper clip, with a table top made from 25mm thick steel.
A senior industrial designer at the City of Melbourne said, ‘the philosophy behind in-house design is to ensure all the details within the municipality have a similar style and resemblance’.
‘Commercially available outdoor tabletennis tables are solid and heavy in look. We aim to keep the details lightweight, so the table does not become a feature of the park, but rather forms part of the overall park’.
Other signature City of Melbourne designs include stainless steel drinking fountains, inspired by a bent tea spoon, and the Swanston Street redevelopment’s award winning LED street lights.
The enduring appeal of the paper clip can also be seen in the city’s stainless steel bike hoops, which owe their pleasant arch to the stationery stalwart.
‘I can never find a paper clip when I need one,’ said the designer, ‘they all bent into different shapes’.
The outdoor table was unveiled as part of a $4.5 million redevelopment of Carlton’s Neill Street Reserve, in August.
Clever maps pave way to a greener city
To find new spaces for urban greenery, the City of Melbourne has used an advanced three-dimensional map of the central city, in tandem with specialised climate simulation software.