The land at 341-351 Francis Street Yarraville, better known as the 'Bradmill Precinct', is a large parcel of former industrial land located between Francis Street, the Westgate Freeway, McIvor Reserve and the Newport-Sunshine Railway Line.
The site contains development dating from the early 1950’s. The most significant of these are the boiler house and its chimney, conveyor and coal hopper, the original dye house and proofing building and the canteen building located along the eastern boundary of the site.
The land was rezoned as part of Amendment C63 to the Maribyrnong Planning Scheme, gazetted on 5 June 2011. Amendment C63 applied the Residential 1 Zone (now the General Residential Zone) to the majority of the site, with the north-east corner of the site zoned Business 1 (now Commercial 1). The amendment also applied the Development Plan Overlay - Schedule 7 (DPO7) and the Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO) to the land.
DPO7 requires that, prior to any planning permit (development) application being submitted to Council, that a Development Plan (Masterplan) be prepared and approved by Council. The Development Plan was approved in September 2012 and is available to view at the bottom of this page. The Development Plan applies the following principles to the site;
While a number of planning permits have been applied for and approved, these have now expired. The new land owner, Frasers Property, has recently lodged a planning permit for stage 1 of the precinct. Stage 1 is generally along Francis Street towards the middle of the site - between Stooke and Angliss Streets.