This document provides details of an architecture firm's proposal to develop an urban design framework for Bellerive Bluff in Clarence, Tasmania. It includes: 1) An introduction and goals for the project; 2) An outline of the design information gathering process including workshops, heritage and community consultations; 3) A proposed timeline, budget, and roles for team members. The proposal aims to create a plan to enhance the public spaces in Bellerive Bluff through community collaboration and consideration of heritage and urban linkages.

1. CLARENCE CITY COUNCIL
BELLERIVE PUBLIC SPACES URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK E596/04
EEXXPPRREESSSSIIOONN OOFF IINNTTEERREESSTT DDDeeebbboooxxx___DDDeeegggrrriiiddd Architecture M John Latham – Architect
03 6265 1420 urbarc@austar.net.au PO Box 54, SORELL, Tasmania 7172 www.lathamarc.ziby.net
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Bellerive Bluff Community
‘Urbscape’ Action Plan
“ … I wonder what the Anglophile felt as he first
perused this little tree covered headland amid the
others in this estuary. Probably nothing of
preference for this particular one arose in his
feeling until eventually he had boated across from
the Hobart settlement on colonising business. He
may have imagined that farm grants on this
sunny shore of splendid outlook would be
something special… and its links to outer areas
too would make it a centre. ……”

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The goal in essence is to produce a program for a
quality of place for Bellerive Bluff which is in
accord with Council’s brief and Community
workshopping.
To achieve the goal, firstly having greeted the key
local government and local place clients,
Debox_Degrid Architecture must;
Gather DESIGN INFORMATION.
Manage PERSONNEL and TASKS.
Negotiate LOCAL WORKSHOPPING.
Secure MUTUAL RESOURCES.
This will occur as follows …

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The delivery to you of the requested documents for a cohesive overall urban landscape
for this unique and highly significant locale in the Municipality of Clarence on behalf of all
its Stakeholders;
Complete with colour illustrated designs, recommendations and implementation program
properly justified by an illustrated issues and community collaboration report;
Will be achieved through the following designer research and considerations.
Up-to-date Familiarity
Discussion with Council’s Planning and Development,
Community Services and Landscape people and perusal of all
pertinent documents and in-hand planning to achieve an up-to-
date familiarity of extant development aspirations for the
Project Place and its City, Municipality and its role with the
State and the Crown. This is to understand the context of the
future of Bellerive Bluff and the reality of desired potential in a
challenging development climate in Tasmania. Local
Community workshops and engaged expertise will complement

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this information.
Historical and Natural Heritage
Discussion will be held with Council’s historical and natural
heritage personnel and any community volunteers. This is to
allow intrinsic aesthetics and iconography to be fused with an
expression of contemporary aspiration as a firm foundation for
cultural design. The depth of considerations in this cultural
design will be balanced by community desire and project
pragmatics. This foundation will underpin the use, function,
commodity and delight of this historic and scenic urban locale –
including horticulture, landscape, interpretations, the ‘breath of
the land and river’ and the intrinsics of its history and built and
archaeological heritage. An assessment of any heritage
whimsically valued by local people in particular will also be
made.
Local Creativity and Product
Discussion with Council’s Community, Cultural and Economic
Development personnel to optimise the use of local creativity
and product by way of arts, manufacture and creative labour.
Thus to focus on the psyche of local character and ownership of
place. A similar approach will be taken with regard to regional,
state and, last but really first, local residents and street users,
to acknowledge the multiple interests in this prominent
Derwent headland and Municipal asset.
The Council’s existing schemes, guidelines, plans, programs
and surveys set context. A professional Artist will be involved.
Stakeholder Workshops
Stakeholder Workshops will allow the Community to ascertain
the pragmatics of optimisation of their environment for
hospitality, commerce and residents. These will include
assessment of broader community inputs via Council, funding,
specific projects and aspiration, work-a-day anticipations and
vision, seasonal considerations, visitor comments, all concerns,
conservation issues and conflicts. The workshops will be
facilitated so as to maintain a freedom for integrated creative
involvement of team professionals.
Subject to negotiation there will be two approximately 3 hour
workshops. The unique character of place will be defined and
specific tasks identified.

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Base Plan
Council’s Engineering and Planning personnel will be
approached for offered base plans for cadastre, topography,
roadway and development proposals and extant urban items
and places. Thus a complete base plan can be established, for
the project area, showing all functional and use aspects –
including traffic flows, trees, poles, signs, drains, rights-of-way,
paths, buildings, water-edge functions, fort profiles, community
uses etc.
Scale to suit an A1 format is suggested.
Urban Links and Hierarchies
All of the above will be used to attain an understanding of
preferred links and hierarchies within the project place, its
immediate neighbouring urban realms and its broader urban
and natural and settlement heritage connections – including
the ferry, the quay village and Boardwalk, beach and river,
cricket ground, educational value, visitor icon value, preferred
use planning, visual character, signs, access, cycle/pedestrian
tracks, parking, outlooks, sociological concerns and
opportunities, endemic and exotic plantings, acknowledgements

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etc. Physical, style and administrative aspects of these links
and hierarchies will be addressed.

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The DESIGN INFORMATION as outlined will be used for Design Team purposes
to derive, report and draw-up the urb-scape plan which properly satisfies the
expressed values of the Council in conjunction with local Community.
The Principal will coordinate and participate among professional Architectural,
Landscape, Historical and Artist expertise. This will be in accord with the listing at
CONSULTANCY BUDGET.
SUMMARY, ISSUES &
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION REPORT
This will be an illustrated report that shows the sources and
justification for the outcomes presented in the PROJECT
AREA URBAN-LANDSCAPE PLAN. It will outline an
encapsulation of the entire process and outcome. Subject to
negotiation it will contain a scale-reduced PROJECT AREA
URB-SCAPE PLAN and SKETCHES.
The report will be furbished as a community user-friendly
document and to suit administrative requirements.

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It will be A4 portrait format. Nominally 20 - 30 pages. 3
copies will be provided.
PROJECT AREA URB-SCAPE PLAN
This hard-copy plan will consist of clearly delineated
renovation (including additions) on the base plan. Within an
overall enhancement and noted conservations on this plan,
specific elements and places will be specified in such a way
as to enable straight-forward capital-works implementations.
All aspects of the projected possible capital works and
planning guidelines will be shown on this plan.
SKETCH DETAIL
Explanatory detail by notes and sketches will be provided, in
conjunction with the over-all urb-scape plan, of light standards,
seats, paving, special constructions, toilets, vegetation, plantings,
artworks, future collaborations, heritage interpretations,
cycleway etc
This will be presented integrally with the main plan; or
optionally as an A4 format in association with the ISSUES &
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION REPORT.
All designs will be coordinated by the Principal.
DISPLAY GRAPHICS
Graphics will be optionally;
 traditional hand drawing traced over the Base Plan or
 GIS computer drawing enhancement to the Base Plan.
The enhancement being provided in sketch format to
Council GIS staff to convert to digital format. This
contribution of Council if possible will provide both
better expenditure of funds through familiarity.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
It is envisaged that the agenda for the workshopping will be
developed by the Principal in liaison with Council’s Project
Manager. Some issues and concerns will have already been
established through Councils administrations. These though

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will be conveyed as workshop information. Additional issues
and concerns, particularly those arising from new
suggestions and ideas, will be sought and resolved during
and following workshopping.
Some of the matters to be submitted firstly by Debox for
discussion at the Workshop are;
What are the motives for urban renovation?
What can be encouraged and what can be discouraged.?
Trendy glitz or down home character?
Are there locals interested in design or hands-on
participation in artistic capital works?
How does the Fort fit with residence, tourism and commerce?
Where does the Bluff fit in historic settlement context and is
it approaching change?
WORKSHOP RESOURCES
CLARENCE CITY COUNCIL - Under this project bid it
is recommended that the Council arrange and equip a
Workshop Venue in or near the Project Area. In addition it is
recommend the Council provide advertising for the events.
Also the Council may suggest specific invitees to enhance the
workshopping with local commentators.
Farley Consulting Group will facilitate as part of the
Debox_Degrid Architecture resource.

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Approximate Timeframes;
Liaisons, programming and advertising of Workshops by week 2.
Establishment of base data and information by week 4.
Workshops and schematic outcomes mid term.
Client liaisons and definitive decisions by week 8.
Final designs and documentation week 12.
Budget and Tasks;
Subject to this bid being accepted within 8 weeks and wholly accepted only, the following cost program applies;
 M. John Latham - Architect
(Debox-Degrid Architecture) $9,000 Project Principal and urban architect. Workshop participation. Project coordination

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Structures. Built & social heritage (incl. interpretations). Contemporary cultural content.
Report and detail schematic descriptions and illustrations.. Council implementations.
 Barwick & Associates
– Landscape Planners,
Ms Pat Barwick … $9,000 Management of all outcomes to do with extant vegetation and new planting.
Workshop participation. Paths, paving, parking, seating, lighting. Production of plan.
 Mr Peter McFie
- Historian … $2000 Presentation to Workshop to set background for establishment of local priorities.
Also a summary of key historical project considerations.
 Mr Kim Peart
- Artist … $1000 Presentation to Workshop to promote possible outcomes for special cultural character in
capital works. Also a précis of his understandings as to the outcomes.
 Farley Consulting Group,
Mr Martin Farley … $1000 Facilitation of Workshops.
 Documentation … $4,000 Word processing and graphics.
 Insurances, Overheads $3,000
 Clarence City Council External to Fee Provision of Workshop venue and advertising as outlined in this submission
and other support as per Council’s Project Brief.
LUMP SUM FEE ( On these quantities and constraints this submission is for a lump sum) $30,000 negotiable + GST - Payable as fortnightly progress
payments.

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East Devonport Urban Design Framework January 04 short-
listed for this project. Ms Sandra Knowles 64 279985, 0408
279968, Ms Angela Castles Devonport City Council.
Hobart Waterfront, Current Article in
www.tasmaniantimes.com
Major Tourism Project for Forestry Tasmania – November 03
short-listed for Hollybank Forest Project, Ms. Peta Dowell-
Hentall, Project Assessment Panel 6233 8154.
Devonport Riverside Plaza – submission.
Devonport Heritage Study – submission.
Bellerive Quay Urban Design – competition winner, Mr Peter
Edwards, Chair of Business Association 6244 5512.
State of the Environment Report, Settlement Committee –
Ms Elaine Stratford, Chair 6226 2463 and Mr Steven Waight,
Manager, Resource Planning and Development 6233 2795.
Submissions to Model Planning Scheme Review – Mr Robin
Nolan, Review Board, 6233 2795.
Tasmania Together Workshops – 4 day Workshop run by
Tasmania Together Project. Issues to do with character of place,
decentralisation, community ownership and voice are listed in
the document.
South Hobart Townscape Project Brief – preliminary brief, Mr
Brendan Lennard, Urban and Heritage Architect, Hobart City
Council 6238 2711.
South Hobart Urban Detail Data Sheets – assessment of detail
and production of data sheets to support community townscape

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project, Mr Brendan Lennard, Urban and Heritage Architect,
Hobart City Council 6238 2711.
Hobart Streetworks Masterplan – a detailed framework brief
for the building of a fully comprehensive set of plans. This is
designed as a practical programming and early warning interface
between maintenance excavator and the urban character
documents. Mr Brendan Lennard, Urban and Heritage Architect,
Hobart City Council, 6238 2711.
St Helens Township Plan – Project Management and Urban
Architect for community based townscape plan, Mr Brown,
General Manager, Break O’Day Council at the time; Ms Lorraine
Biggs, Community Artist, 6372 5533; Mr Brendan Lennard, Urban
and Heritage Architect, Hobart City Council 6238 2711; Ms Jenily
Venaglia, Community Liaison, c/o 6226 2521.
Bicheno Townscape Manual – similar to that above, Mr Brendan
Lennard, Ms Jenily Venaglia; Mr Carl Trost, East Coast Regional
Development Organisation, 6375 1328 (other names associated
with ERDO are Helen and Tenniswood; also Mr Rob Nolan has
reviewed this Manual with respect to planning scheme review,
6233 2795.
St Marys Townscape Project – similar above, Mr Gabriel
Calgano, Break O’Day Planner at the time, now GCC, 6216 6420;
Mr Peter Curtis now Director Planning HCC 6238 2711.
City of Hobart CBD Revitalisation Project – various
involvement with this project and the project group; Mr Peter
Curtis, Director Planning HCC 6238 271, Ms Carole Edwards,
Urban Designer an urban designer on the project, 6238 2900.
Urban Detail Hobart
North Hobart Townscape Project - Developer and coordinator
of this award winning project. It involved coronation of a
consultant of urban designers and an artist, Then Lord Mayor
Doone Kennedy, Alderman Darlene Haigh (c/o 6238 2711) and
then Alderman Dee Alty, c/o The Honorable Dick Adam 6398
1115.
Shay Gap Mining Township – 1978, assistance with this award
winning project by way of drafting and model making under the
employ of Lawrence Howroyd
Zeehan Renovation Assessment – 1978; in-situe assessment of
the township under the employ of Lawrence Howroyd.
GENERAL
- Mr Bruce Churchill, Department of Primary
Industries Water and Environment, has an objective
perspective, 1300 368 550.
- Ms Dee Alty, c/o The Honourable Dick Adam
6398 1115 re North Hobart Townscape and State
Development lobbying.