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Location
26 kilometres southeast of Melbourne CBD [Melway Reference 80 H3].

Scope
Redevelopment processes for 80 hectares of previous football stadium and parking areas.

Collie Role
Strategic and statutory planning; assistance with master planning and urban design; preparation of neighbourhood character overlay; rezoning and subsequent statutory processes and documents.

Key Challenge
Redevelopment of a site while recognizing the significant past uses and incorporating some of them in the new urban design concept plan.

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Waverly Park Amendment

Waverley Park, which was the headquarters and a key football ground of the Victorian Football League (VFL), is situated beside the Monash Freeway about 26 kilometres southeast of Melbourne. The redevelopment of Waverley Park by Mirvac provides for a 1500 lots / 1250 dwellings residential community around an active sports oval, a section of the heritage stadium and associated facilities. The community hub includes a portion of the original grandstand and oval, with the grandstand converted to house the Hawthorn Football Club headquarters and a range of retail and community facilities. The original stadium around the remainder of the oval was replaced by housing in a form that evoked the original stadium location and form.

The Project

Collie was appointed by Mirvac as its planning consultant for the project. The Collie role included strategic planning, assisting Mirvac with master planning, design guidelines, heritage issues, preparation of Victoria's first neighbourhood character overlay, rezoning and related statutory documents, permit applications and building envelope plans.

Key challenges in this significant redevelopment project have included

• retention and utilisation of cultural heritage elements such as the Sir Kenneth Luke Stand;
• key access points and internal roads picking up on components of the original layout and use;
• building design guidelines and envelopes to promote a unique new neighbourhood character;
• the redevelopment / reuse of the very specialised form of the grandstand to enable new and very different commercial, retail and community uses.