The government forecasts Fisherman's Bend will house 80,000 people by 2050, with plans to build parks, schools, roads, transport, facilities and services.
Cr Voss, who is on the project’s mayoral advisory committee with Melbourne lord mayor Sally Capp and is stepping down at the October election, spoke more candidly than usual. Her position has meant she is the only councillor privy to information about the project due to a confidentiality arrangement.
“This has been an unacceptable impost and a new way has to be found before the new council,” she said at the meeting. Cr Voss, “dubbed Queen of the Bend by the other councillors” said the relationship between the council and government had been hindered due to a constant change in ministers and other officials.“The mire of confidentiality ... has absolutely subsumed all conversation,” he said “It’s been hard to get a conversation going with ourselves, let alone the community.
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