Contents

• About Development Victoria

• Riverwalk in Context

• Riverwalk project Outcomes

• Werribee River interface

• Questions

Presentation to:

Healthy Waterways Strategy

28 June 2018

Development Victoria

Who is Development Victoria?

• State Government Development

Agency

• New organisation; new mandate;

new purpose

• Centre of excellence delivering

urban renewal and civic projects

across Victoria

Our changing role

• Lead projects that support the

government's policy objectives

• Oversee major urban renewal,

development of under-utilised

government land and civic

projects delivery

• Transforming communities

Our policy pillars

• Promoting housing diversity and

affordable housing

• Driving economic development in

Melbourne and regional Victoria

• Developing recreational, cultural

and civic projects with key partners;

• Pursing value capture and creation

opportunities; and

• Delivering capital works projects to

benefit the community

RIVERWALK

Riverwalk in context

• Melbourne Water owned site

• 200 Ha total land area

• 2,200 dwellings in total

• Previous Western Treatment Plant

• Location for temporary WW2

hangars

• Located in Iramoo Ward

• Fringe of Werribee Town Centre

• Adjacent to Werribee River

upstream from Ramsar Wetlands

• Surrounding PSP’s; Alfred Road &

Werribee West

2005

DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE

2010 20182011 2023 2025

CURRENT MARKET SITUATION, Iramoo Ward

Riverwalk

415 Existing Dwellings

25-30 lots produced per month

7,300 residents expected on completion

Riverwalk – Werribee River

Interface

• Total frontage to Werribee River

is 370m

• River interface buffered by park

and constructed waterway /

wetlands

• Approved CHMP which covers

the entire creek interface

• EPBC Approval

Proximity to Werribee River

EPBC Approval

A notice of approval under the EPBC Act for the Riverwalk development was

issued in 2007. The main conditions of this approval were to minimise impacts

on the Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Wetland, Port Phillip Bay and the Growling

Grass Frog. The following conditions were included in the approval:

• Creation of open space and wetlands for Growling Grass Frog habitat

• Creation of stormwater treatment wetlands and on-site stormwater

management

• Preparation and implementation of a Water Management Strategy (WMS) to

protect the ecological character of the Ramsar site

• Following completion of the wetlands, monthly water quality monitoring

• Revegetation using indigenous species

• Interpretive signage explaining the presence and importance of the Ramsar

site and the Growling Grass Frog

Approved Development Plan (2010)

Riverwalk Overland Flow Strategy

• Overland flows

drain to central

floodway

• Water is then

filtered through

sediment ponds

and bio-retention

systems and

treated water is

discharged into

floodway and

wetlands

Lollypop Creek Floodway under construction (2017)

Lollypop Creek Civil Works completed (2018)

Werribee River Escarpment Landscape concept design

Lollypop Creek Ultimate Landscape Treatment

WERRIBEE RIVER ESCARPMENT

• Land from the centre of the river to the 1 in 100 year flood level is covered

by Public Acquisition Overlay and will be transferred to Wyndham City

Council.

• Human activity limited to a small number of defined pathways and passive

recreation in the associated Riverside Park.

• Land in the escarpment and associated Riverside Park is covered by a

CHMP.

• Light pollution to Werribee River is to be restricted through the setback of

residential development and appropriate design of streetlights to minimise

the amount of illumination directed to the Werribee River.

• Protection from light pollution is essential for the protection of platypus

population.

• Trees propagated from locally collected seed (such as River Red Gum) will

be an integral component of the proposed revegetation works.

Riverside Park and Werribee River Escarpment

WERRIBEE RIVER ESCARPMENT

• Design for the

riverside park

includes

playground,

shared path,

ramps planting

and growling

grass frog habitat

OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN

• Protect biodiversity, ensuring that indigenous flora and fauna species

survive as far as practicable within the context of surrounding urbanisation;

• Protect the ten remnant indigenous trees within the public parks identified

within the Riverwalk concept plan (within Parks P1 and P4);

• Allow natural ecological processes to operate along the Werribee River,

primarily by controlling introduced flora and fauna and the build-up of

organic litter;

• Revegetate the extensive areas of river frontage dominated by exotic

species with the structural dominants of the natural (pre-1750) ecological

vegetation class (Floodplain Riparian Woodland)

• Potentially contribute on-site Net Gain offsets should these be required in

association with future works (e.g. the footbridge).

Riverwalk.