Questions and
Answers on:
An Integrated Planning Framework for the Redfern-Waterloo Plan
What is the
Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
The
Redfern-Waterloo Plan is the mechanism the NSW Government will use to manage
the following issues, and their interaction, in Redfern-Waterloo over the next
10 years:
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human
services
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jobs
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infrastructure
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new
development/redevelopment.
Who will make the
Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
The
Minister responsible for Redfern-Waterloo (the Hon Frank Sartor, MP) will make the
Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
What gives him the
power to make the Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
In
December 2004, the NSW Parliament passed an Act to allow the Redfern-Waterloo
Minister to make the Redfern Waterloo Plan.
This
Act of Parliament (the Redfern-Waterloo Authority Act 2004) gave the Minister
for Redfern-Waterloo sweeping powers in the area.
It
also created the Redfern-Waterloo Authority which advises the Minister on matters
relating to Redfern-Waterloo, including the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
Will the
Redfern-Waterloo Plan (RWP) be developed all at once?
The
Minister has said that the Redfern-Waterloo Plan will be developed in stages.
How will the stages
of the Plan fit together to ensure an integrated, comprehensive RWP?
The
Minister hasn’t made any statements about this.
What can we
do to make sure the stages fit together?
Ask
the Minister to agree to an integrated planning framework for the Redfern-Waterloo
Plan.
What sort of thing
could we suggest to the Minister?
If
you agree with the points made in the answers to the rest of these questions,
you could ask him to do what they suggest.
Why do we need an
integrated planning framework?
The
Redfern-Waterloo Plan (RWP) has a 10 year life span. Unless there is something to tie activities
together over this period, neither the community nor the Government will have a
clear idea of:
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what
they want to achieve over 10 years
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how
they are going to try to achieve it
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how
each stage of the RWP can reinforce, not undermine, these efforts
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whether,
at the end of the 10 years, the issues the community wants addressed have been
covered by the various stages
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whether
– in both the short term and the long-term – the RWP has succeeded.
In
short, without an integrated planning framework there will be no mutually
agreed reference point for the
different stages of the RWP.
What do we need in
the integrated planning framework?
The essential components of an integrated
planning framework which can underpin the Redfern-Waterloo Plan over its 10
year lifespan are:
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What the NSW Government will do – and |
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The sort of place we want Redfern-Waterloo |
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How everyone needs to act to make Redfern-Waterloo |
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The overall things we want for Redfern-Waterloo in the long run |
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The most important short and medium |
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What everyone needs to do to make Redfern-Waterloo the place |
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How we will know that things have |
How much detail do
we need to go into?
If
the integrated planning framework is to guide the Redfern-Waterloo Plan through
10 years of development, implementation and review, each component needs
content that is:
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robust
enough to remain relevant over that period
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not
so detailed that:
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it
will never be completed
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it
will allow no flexibility.
What would the
integrated planning framework look like?
The
following pages are an example:
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the
first page gives the headings for what’s in the integrated planning framework
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the
remaining pages give examples of how the content could be filled in, through an
RWA and community consultation process.
Is anything else
needed?
Yes
– community participation principles.
REDWatch
has prepared a set of draft community participation principles as a companion
document to the draft REDWatch integrated planning framework.
Why isn’t a community
participation strategy included in the integrated planning framework?
Community
participation is threaded through all the activities that the integrated
planning framework covers.
However,
the framework itself also needs to be developed through a community
participation process.
That
is why REDWatch has prepared a separate document on community participation
principles for Redfern and Waterloo.
These
principles should be supplemented by the guidelines the NSW Government has
adopted for the NSW planning system.
These
guidelines, which won planning awards, are at http://www.iplan.nsw.gov.au/engagement/index.jsp
and http://203.147.162.100/pia/engagement/index.htm
– but they may need to be adapted where
necessary to the broader needs of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
Are there other NSW
guidelines that can help with the integrated planning framework?
Yes
– the strategic planning components of
the Government’s Strategic Management Framework at http://www.premiers.nsw.gov.au/WorkAndBusiness/WorkingForGovernment/StrategicManagementFramework/
Isn’t there still a
problem – the Redfern-Waterloo Authority is already developing Stage 1 of the Redfern-Waterloo
Plan?
This
problem can be overcome – as long as the Redfern-Waterloo Authority agrees
that:
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Stage
1 of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan will be interim only until the community and the
Government have agreed on an integrated planning framework
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the Redfern-Waterloo
Authority,
in conjunction with the community, will review the Stage 1 Redfern-Waterloo
Plan to
ensure it still fits within the guidelines of the agreed framework and adjust
it if necessary.