wurundjeri way road closure and collins st bridge declaration

WURUNDJERI WAY ROAD CLOSURE AND COLLINS ST

BRIDGE DECLARATION30/08/2013

development & environment consultantsBeveridge Williams

THE SITE

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

“BUNJIL” THE EAGLE


• 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

THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT BY LEND LEASE


• 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

KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND INTERESTED PARTIES


PLACES VICTORIA- Land Owner- Developer

PUBLIC TRANSPORT VIC- Land Owner

MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL- Referral Authority

- Professional advice

BEVERIDGE WILLIAMS- Surveying Services (Road Closure)

- Professional Advice for Places Victoria

MADIGAN SURVEYING- Surveying Services (Subdivision)

- Professional Advice for Lend Lease

LEND LEASE- Developer

- Key financier

VIC ROADS- Land Owner

- Professional Advice

LOT IN AIRSPACE


• 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(CONTINUED)


NOT SO TYPICAL CROSS-SECTIONS


• 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(CONTINUED)


• The creation of the lot was designed and computed by Madigan

Surveying and verified by Beveridge Williams

CREATION OF FREEHOLD TITLE TO BE INSERTED INTO MADIGANS STAGED SUBDIVSION


• 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………


- 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

FUTURE WORKS – CONSTRUCTION PHASE


• 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(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

COLLINS STREET BRIDGE DECLARATION


• Collins Street Bridge has been accepted by the public and is on Melbourne City Councils public register of roads

• The bridge was incorrectly declared as Docklands Hwy (Wurundjeri Way) in 2000

COLLINS STREET BRIDGE DECLARATION(CONTINUED)


• 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)


• 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


• Varying Depth and Height Limitations for Collins Street Bridge Declaration

SIMILAR PROJECT…… DIFFERENT PROCESS


• 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

THANKYOU


QUESTIONS?


wurundjeri way road closure and collins st bridge declaration

Documents

constructed road lot

arterial road

wurundjeri way road

developable land

land vests

proposed development

road management act

lot reduced levels