Community consultation underway for Fishermans Bend

Victoria's Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Project announced in July 2012 is in the middle of its community consultation that will inform the Strategic Framework Plan.

A letter drop to local residents' and business owners' properties noted that the community engagement for the project concludes on November 22, 2013, with the framework to then be released in the summer of 2014.

The planned redevelopment of Fishermans Bend from the local government will "transform a large area of industrial land on the city's doorstep," the letter reads.

The plan is to provide 80,000 homes and 40,000 workers within 40 years. Currently, 250 hectares has been rezoned for the purpose.Fishermans Bend is bound by Williamstown Road and Boundary Street to the south, City Road to the east, the West Gate Freeway and Lorimer Street to the north and City Link and Todd Road to the west.

Fishermans Bend has previously been contentious, and professor Michael Buxton has been vocal about the redevelopment.

"You could not get a worse example of how not to develop than Fishermans Bend," Buxton previously said.