Built Environment Plan Phase 2 - Public Housing Estates
On 27 January the RWA released the Draft of Phase 2 of their Built Environment Plan (BEP2). Below you will find details of the plan which was only on exhibition until 28 February 2011. REDWatch has collected a range of background materials about the issues associated with the redevelopment of public housing - these can be found via the Public Housing tab at the top of the page or by the link at the foot of this page. The RWA Draft BEP2 is being finalised by the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority as aprt of a wider precinct study.
A barbeque to thank social housing residents for their input during the draft BEP 2 exhibition period will be held on Monday, 21 March at Poet’s Corner Redfern
Attached is the City of Sydney Council submission on the Draft Redfern-Waterloo Built Environment Plan Stage 2. This is an important submission because the Council is the body that has all the in house expertise to assess BEP2. It also indicates what Council would allow if it was the Consent Authority which it may yet be. Please note there have been a few versions of this document on line - this is the corrected version produced on 20 April 2010. The file is 7.7 MB PDF.
The RWA website contains submissions from people and Organisations who are happy to have their comments made public. We have not placed all these on the REDWatch website but below we have provided links to these submissions.
Attached is the Council on the Aging (NSW) [COTA] Submission on on the Draft Redfern-Waterloo Built Environment Plan Stage 2. The file is 861 KB PDF.
The Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) has released the Stakeholder Engagement Report for the Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2). The report prepared by Mediate Today, the RWA response and a media release have been placed on the RWA website on 22 July 2011. Below you will find a link to the documents. We have reproduced the text of the media release and the RWA response in text form below.
The Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) Stakeholder Engagement Report for the Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP 2) contains an analysis of the surveys returned during the BEP2 consultation. REDWatch has concerns about how this data has been reported and has hence extracted from the report the raw data for further analysis. This data has been provided to the RWA/SMDA for checking and is being made available for researchers who are interested in peer reviewing this aspect of the Mediate Today report. The data sheet contains some questions that REDWatch would like to clarify that have been raised during the preparation of this data set. REDWatch will now prepare its own comments on the Mediate Today report. File is 43KB PDF
The Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority has released the details of the studies proposed for Redfern and Waterloo over the next few months. The statement advises that "The SMDA will progressively advise on its website of the appointment of consultants and welcomes feedback from individuals, organisations and other stakeholders on key issues which they would like considered in the relevant study by the SMDA. This way, SMDA will be able to ensure key issues are considered appropriately and in a timely manner." The full text of the statement is below:
The Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority (SMDA) announced in this media release of 1 December 2011 that it has engaged the Government Architect’s Office to review draft plans for a major housing revitalisation project in Redfern-Waterloo, providing an additional 3,700 new dwellings. This review is part of the NSW Government’s ongoing commitment for urban renewal in identified areas close to public transport to provide much-needed dwellings. The full text of the media release is below.
This is an electronic copy of the Baseline "Redfern Waterloo Public Housing Tenant Survey" undertaken by Sweeney Research for Housing NSW. The study included 752 interviews with public tenants between 28 June 2010 and 30 November 2010. This report dated 29 April 2011 was publicly released in hard copy by HNSW on 3 August 2011 to the Redfern and Waterloo Community Learning and Research Group. An electronic copy was released on 22 August 2011. This is a searchable 3.3MB PDF.
This link takes you to the "Public Housing" section of the REDWatch site where you can find out more information about Public Housing Issues including the controls proposed by the Sydney City Council for the area now being reconsidered by the RWA under BEP2 and HNSW in their Preliminary MasterPlan.