108 Dow St, Port Melbourne

13 October 2024

A planning application has been received to demolish the house and construct two three storey dwellings.

Ref: City of Port Phillip PDPL/00341/2024

The property was sold by R T Edgar on 24 February 2024 for $1,820,000

2 March 2019

Late flowering 

The home of Kelvin Edwin McIntosh who was born and died in this house. (29 05 1942 to 22 02 2018)

This cactus, bursting out of its pot, flowered magnificently in February.

February 2019

Kelvin liked to sit on the verandah of the house, stubby in hand, and watch the world go by - and offer his thoughts on the world too.

228-232 & 234-238 Normanby Rd

 19 October 2024

The City Jeep retail showroom and development site is for sale by expression of interest closing on 14 November at 12 pm. The sale is being handled by Colliers. 

The 3,030 sq metre site has three street frontages to Montague St, Normanby Rd and Woodgate St. 

453, 437 & 441 - 443 Graham St, Port Melbourne

12 October 2024

These titles are for sale by allardshelton.

July 2021

Construction is well advanced on the project. With the new Port Melbourne Secondary School set to open in early 2022, Port Melbourne Primary School about 100m away, and the opening of Woolworths, Fishermans Bend, this is an extremely well located site. 

11 March 2018

Construction has begun on the apartments approved in late 2015.

March 2018

10 December 2016

'12 architect designed town homes' are for sale 'nestled in historic Port Melbourne and on the doorstep of the exciting new Fishermas Bend precincts.'

Graham is 'steeped in history, focussed on the future'.

Architects: Caisson

21 April 2015
The application for 453-457 Graham St was considered by the City of Port Phillip at the Statutory Planning Meeting on 21 April 2015. (P04502014)

Zoning: Commercial 1
Overlays: None

The Council report said

The site is not located within a Heritage Overlay. Therefore the Heritage Policy does not apply to this site. Neither of the adjoining sites on Graham Street nor any site on the western side of Graham Street between Williamstown Road and Walter Street are within a Heritage Overlay. The adjoining properties to the west at 432 Williamstown Road and 59 Crichton Avenue are however located within Heritage Overlay No.2 and are located within Garden City Estate. Given the separation of these sites by the rear laneway and the mid-block location of the development, the building would not impact on the heritage value of these sites. These buildings would continue to be prominent in their respective streetscapes and would not be overwhelmed by the proposed development. Moreover it is considered that the three storey height would be an acceptable graduation in height from these two storey scale buildings. Click here to read the full report.

While the Council officer supported the application, it was refused by the Council at the planning meeting. At the subsequent appeal to VCAT, a permit was granted on 1 December 2015.

131 Graham St, Port Melbourne

October 2024

The property is for sale by Marshall White.

September 2019

Bulloughs corner shop

corner Dow and Graham Sts

Lois Collinder writes:

"One of my earliest memories is sitting in Mr Bullough's grocery shop next door watching him weigh the sugar and tip it into brown paper bags. He'd also cut off pieces of butter from the large yellow slab for the ladies coming in with their coupons. I still remember the smell of the produce and Mr Bullough putting up the shutters every night. The cardboard mobiles advertising biscuits swayed in the breeze and the sawdust on the floor was soft beneath my feet. If I was a good girl I might get some broken biscuits from the tin or a pennyworth of chocolate balls in a paper cone."

Edwin Whiting recalls:

"The bench was always scrubbed clean and there was sawdust on the floor. He put lollies in a paper cone that he made from white paper."

From Memories of Port, Port Phillip Through My Eyes

Port Phillip Seniors' Festival Writing Competition, 2008