THE first areas identified for CBD-style development at ''Fishermans Bend'' are located in Port Melbourne and South Melbourne industrial areas - not near the General Motors Fishermans Bend facility on the banks of the Yarra River.

A departmental briefing shows the first four areas targeted to accommodate up to 60,000 new residents and 24,000 homes are almost all south of the West Gate Freeway in industrial land running to Williamstown Road.

The vision for Fishermans Bend.

Mr Guy's vision is for Fishermans Bend to become part of an expanded CBD. Documents from the Department of Planning show four development areas - stage one in South Melbourne called Montague, stage two, three and four in Port Melbourne called Lorimer Street, Plummer Street, and Fennell Street. The planning department briefing also shows an investigation for light rail down Williamstown and Todd roads to service the new community.

One internal email from the Department of Planning last year outlined the minister's plans for the area. ''The minister's adviser is considering the use of the residential density of Southbank (stated as 360 dwellings/hectare) as a guide to estimate the capacity of the 200ha in Port Melbourne (it's been called Fishermans Bend in the press),'' the email from Richard Woodall, assistant director, development projects, said.