Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
admin The towering machines clustered in a cavernous workshop in Redfern make up one of the world’s best preserved yet still functioning blacksmithing workshops reports Rose Powell in the Sydney Morning Herald of January 9 2015. Read More…
Mirvac Group is gunning hard to take home the prized $200 million-plus Australian Technology Park in inner Sydney. Behind the push is Mirvac’s determination to land a major tenant, such as Google or Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for the site, industry sources said writes Mercedes Ruehl in the Aust Read More…
This is the text of an email update sent to Central to Eveleigh stakeholders. It deals with the EOI for Sale of the ATP; ATP Information Sessions on the sale; UrbanGrowth Community Engagement; What was on the Blank bit of paper at the Dec UG session; and A Guide to acheiving good outcomes in precinc Read More…
On 9th December 2014 UrbanGrowth C2E held a Thinking and Visioning workshop. Concerns about the process were raised with REDWatch by both those that attended and those that were excluded. REDWatch wrote to the UrbanGrowth NSW Community Engagement Manager responsible for the project (who spoke on com Read More…
Australian Technology Park is being sized up for sale as the state government’s multimillion-dollar divestment of public property continues apace reports Leesha McKenny the Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 8 2014. Read More…
Following the ATP sale anouncement REDWatch requested Council to assess the impact and report back to the community. Below is the text of the REDWatch request. Read More…
On December 4 2014 the Government announced that UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) would handle an EOI process which closes 30th January 2015 for the sale of the Australian Technology Park. Below are the details of the anouncement and REDWatch’s initial response as circulated in its email updates. Read More…
Central to Eveleigh takes in the former Eveleigh Railyards sites that were covered by the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s Built Environment Plan One (BEP1). REDWatch has been involved with these sites for a long time and this information is available inanother part of this site under BEP1. This link takes you to that part of the … Read more
Material relating to the proposed sale by UrbanGrowth of the Australian Technology Park can be found in the ATP secion of this website. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp
In September 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald obtained a Flythrough of the proposed Central to Eveleigh development dated July 3 2014. The flythrough has been updated from the February 2014 version and new buildings from the Locomotive Workshops have been removed. The bulk of other key RWA recognised Read More…
The NSW Government has released a major discussion paper to examine options to deliver improvements to the social housing system on 18 November 2014. Links to the report, media release and other details are provided below. Feedback on the report closes on 20 February 2015
This text is extracted from a heavily redacted copy of the “UrbanGrowth Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program 2014-15 Business Plan”. The document was released under a GIPA Request to the Sydney Morning Herald and was the basis of an article on 27th September 2014 titled “Sydney re Read More…
In February 2014 the NSW Government produced a video called “NSW is open for business”. That video included a flythrough of the Central to Eveleigh corridor showing indicative development. A similar fly through was shown in March to the Property Council and released to Channel 9. Below are some stil Read More…
Prior to the June 2014 UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) focus groups REDWatch raised some concerns about the process proposed with UG. Subsequemtly REDWatch produced the document below to place our concerns in the public domain and to make these concerns available to other groups and stakeholders. The paper bel Read More…
Council’s Planning and Development Committee on Tuesday 22nd July will be considering Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the City Council and UrbanGrowth NSW. Below are details of the MOUs being coinsidered and some REDWatch comments. Read More…
The University of Sydney has submitted a Response to Submissions (RtS) report for the University of Sydney’s Campus Improvement Program State significant development (SSD) application. This report responds to issues raised in Submissions. This report is open to community comment until August 2014. T Read More…
While not covered by BEP1 there has been a lot of planning done about Redfern Station over the last decade. Some of this material has been released under Freedom of Information / GIPA requests. Here you can see the background on Redfern Station which will also form part of the Central to Eveleigh Redfern Precinct. … Read more
The Redfern Precinct under Central to Eveleigh also covers part of the BEP1 Redfern Railway Station, Gibbons & Regent Streets Precinct. This site have previously been the subject of RWA BEP1 zoning which facilitated buildings near Redfern Station. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/gibbons
The Redfern Precinct under Central to Eveleigh covers the eastern or Redfern end of the BEP1 North Eveleigh precinct. This site have previously been the subject of RWA BEP1 zoning, has had a design competition and an approved Part 3A Concept Plan. Key Heritage Buildings identified by the RWA fall into this precinct. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh
The BEP1 North Eveleigh Precinct covered both the Eastern (Redfern) end of the North Eveleigh site and the Western (Newtown) end of the site. The BEP1 planning controls, Concept Plan and works on the Newtown end of North Eveleigh are on the BEP1 North Eveleigh part of this site. Here you will find the details … Read more