Residents of Port Melbourne’s Barak Beacon estate say they are shocked and saddened after the Victorian government suddenly told them they must move out until at least 2025
On 23 June, the government opened a three-week public consultation process on Barak Beacon, consisting of an online 14-question survey. The questions were phrased as if the new development was a done deal, and indeed by the time it opened, many of the estate’s residents had already been relocated. One resident’s responses included the line: “This is not a genuine attempt at public engagement but a disingenuous push poll.
A spokesperson for Homes Victoria said the department was “committed to a thorough consultation process on this project and the feedback we receive from the community and our stakeholders is used to help inform our project decisions”.Margaret Kelly learned of the planned demolition of her home of 23 years through the mail.Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian
Her ground-floor apartment, which she shares with her elderly dog, Patchett, has a large courtyard full of plants. A neighbour, Jeannie Erceg, was moved to Barak Beacon from a public housing estate in Prahran, which was demolished in 2019 for a similar rebuilding project that has not yet been completed.Resident Jeannie Erceg outside her apartment.Erceg’s three-bedroom apartment faces the beach. Like all the residents, she was told she would have the right to return to Barak Beacon when the redevelopment is completed, but she doesn’t believe she will be given an equivalent property.
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