Australia Post has lodged plans for an ambitious mixed-use development with 501 dwellings to replace its Rosslyn Street call centre in West Melbourne.

The postal service announced in February its plans to move staff from the centre into 10,000 square metres of office space on levels 21 to 26 of 180 Lonsdale Street, which sits atop the QV shopping centre.

The planned 501-dwelling development would replace a call centre in Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne.

Instead of immediately selling the Rosslyn Street property, which is in a prime location, it has designed a village of five large buildings to cover the 9200-square-metre site bordered by Rosslyn, Adderley and Dudley streets.