Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
admin Below is the proof transcript of Evidence given by SMDA CEO Roy Wakelin-King top the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Inquiry into Utilisation of Rail Corridors on 28 May 2012. It deals primarily with the operations of the SMDA and not with issues related to Redfern Station. Read More…
NEARLY half a billion dollars has been allocated for infrastructure in housing growth areas and the assessment of development applications will be sped up to bolster the state’s housing and construction sectors reports Josephine Tovey in the SMH of 13 June 2012. Read More…
COUNCILS will be dangled a $50 million carrot to pay for their infrastructure woes while a new government body will be given the power to turbocharge housing delivery reports Vikki Campion in The Daily Telegraph of 13 June 2012.
Urbangrowth NSW will integrate and refocus Landcom and the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority (SMDA) as a key new driver of the Government’s approach to housing delivery. “The Government intends to have the new organisation up and running by mid July,” Minister Hazzard said in the statment be Read More…
In the submission below on the University of Sydney Abercrombie Precinct Redevelopment, REDWatch raised issues highlighted the deficiencies in the ARUP and Parson Brickerhoff Traffic Studies. In light of these deficiencies we ask the Department to also apply the SKM review findings to this applicati Read More…
FORGET the great Australian dream of having a big backyard with room for a swimming pool, NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard says Sydneysiders “want” to live in tiny terraces writes Barclay Crawford in The Sunday Telegraph of 3 June 2012.
Redfern Station is a nightmare for the disabled and the elderly, and the O’Farrell government doesn’t seem to care report Chanel 10 news in the item on Redfern Station and Lift Redfern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7wYaVc4KY
LORD Mayor Clover Moore has received another 500 signatures petitioning for lift access at Redfern station reports Central on May 16 2012. Read More…
Concerned residents at a forum last Monday discussed the future of the North Eveleigh area which has been approved for mixed-use redevelopment reports Florencia Melgar in City News on 24 May 2012. Read More…
A SECOND harbour crossing will be the centrepiece rail project in the state government’s draft transport masterplan, to be unveiled within months reports Jacob Saulwick in the SMH of 2 June 2012. Read More…