Port Melbourne and Fishermans Bend change. Houses are changed or demolished and new forms of housing take their place. Port Houses records some of these changes.
08 February 2013
227 Esplanade West, Port Melbourne
December 2013
227 Esplanade West, 7 December 2013
17 December 2012
The site is cleared.
17 December 2012
Lyons St frontage prior to demolition
1976
227 Esplanade West, newly built in 1976 City of Port Phillip collection
Port Housesand Port Placesare projects by Janet Bolitho.
Port Melbourne has a great diversity of housing from different periods. Port Houses takes an interest in dwellings of all kinds as well as debates about planning in Port Melbourne and environs.
Port Houses attempts to record every house demolished in Port Melbourne and what replaces it. Port Houses also records the vegetation present on a site before demolition, and what replaces it.
More recently, Janet has been documenting development sites in Fishermans Bend and Montague.
Janet was appointed to the Fishermans Bend Development Board in 2018. She is an active member of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.
She has a Masters in planning from RMIT, a background in history studies and a period from 2004 to 2012 as Sandridge Ward Councillor on the Port Phillip Council. She was Mayor of the City of Port Phillip in 2006 and 2007.
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If you have photos, stories or any other information that would add depth and interest to Port Houses, please contact me at janet.bolitho AT gmail.com
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