Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
admin The NSW Government has called for expressions of interest to revitalise and expand Sydney’s CBD by redeveloping land and airspace in the Central to Eveleigh rail corridor on Friday 12 July 2013. This is REDWatch’s initial comment on the anouncement and its implications. Read More…
Building big things over rail lines is an idea that has been around for decades – but its time may now have arrived. The O’Farrell government’s plan to throw open development rights for that wide scar of open railway track between Central and Redfern looks like a good idea, even if it is one that is Read More…
Melbourne covered its city railway lines with Federation Square and Sydney has several apartment blocks sitting over tracks in St Leonards and Chatswood. But this plan – if ever implemented – will change Sydney forever reports Stephen Nicholls SMH’s Property Editor on 12 July 2013. Read More…
This is the July 2013 REDWatch submission on the Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney to 2031. Read More…
At least 150 pre-fabricated skyscrapers from Central Station to Strathfield, conveyor belts shuttling building materials above Ultimo, train lines ripped up for new ones underground, and much of the steel and concrete shipped from China, with an army of international workers assembling it all for a Read More…
The NSW Government today (12 July 2013) called for expressions of interest for the renewal of the railway line corridor between Central Station and Eveleigh that has potential to provide thousands of new homes and jobs reports this media release from Minister Brad Hazzard. Read More…
OFFICE workers will be able to watch trains whizz past from their desk or apartment dwellers from their bedroom, under a new vision to build high rises over Sydneys railway lines writes Vikki Campion Urban Affairs Reporter of the Daily Telegraph on July 12, 2013. Read More…
High-rise towers could be constructed from Central Station to Eveleigh and structures built over rail lines after the state government invited the world’s developers to redraw central Sydney writes Nicole Hasham the SMH’s Urban Affairs reporter and James Robertson on 12 July 2013. Read More…
The NSW Government has ignored warnings from the Independent Commission Against Corruption that its new planning system is open to corruption. Better Planning Network’s Corrine Fisher said “We are deeply concerned that there will be a high risk of corruption occurring under the new laws” in this me Read More…
This is the REDWatch submission to the Department of Planning and Infrastructure in June 2013 concerning the New Planning System for NSW White Paper and Draft Legislation. Read More…