Readers discuss the state of Docklands and argue that the riverfront suburb’s “just a wind tunnel” reputation can be turned around.
”, 12/4). The location seemed right, on the docks and an undiscovered area of the city. However, it was built without a greater plan to integrate the existing streets of the CBD to ensure a smooth transition.
Open space would be a priority, as would provision for schools and social infrastructure. Twenty-five per cent of all housing stock would be set aside for public housing and the southern bank of the river would be an arts precinct. What is missing in the discussion of Docklands is a basic understanding that the area is not homogenous. As a resident of one part of the suburb it is easy to identify four discrete parts.
I would suggest that the residents of Docklands identify more with their local environment; New Quay, Victoria Harbour or Yarra’s Edge, than with the suburb known as Docklands.There was a time when Holden, Ford, Mitsubishi and Datsun motor cars were all manufactured in Australia. White goods, washing machines and refrigerators. Steel products even, at one time television sets. All gone now, overseas, to countries with lower labour costs and greater efficiencies of scale.
In a time when there is a shortage of housing, building materials and tradesmen, is it not time to consider getting more “bang for our buck”, and for the environment, by reintroducing the building restrictions of the post-WW II period? We Boomers made happy memories growing up in those “half-size” houses. More, but smaller houses could solve a lot of our current problems.More efficient solar panels are outrunning our desire and imperative to recoup and recycle the valuable components in them.
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