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The Waterloo Renewal Principles reflect the intent of the State-wide compact but have been developed specifically for the Waterloo Renewal Project. These principles incorporate community engagement standards such as the International Association of Public Participation and learnings for other renewal projects. The principles reflect the feedback from residents and the community regarding ways of working … Read more

The Waterloo South Voluntary Planning Agreement released for the public exhibition was a scanned copy which means that it is not searchable. For a legal document that keeps referring to other parts of the document this is difficult to follow if you can’t search the document. REDWatch has run an optical character recognition program across … Read more

This update includes a LAHC update on the rezoning outcome, the shortlisting of consortiums for the waterloo Redevelopment, a project Planning timeline, the proposed infrastructure agreement between LAHC and Council, community consultations and support during relocations. It also includes a section from DCJ Housing about the introduction of the new Housing Practice Standards that are … Read more

On 21 Septembers Waterloo Redevelopment Tenant-Only Subgroup sent a letter to the Planning Minister raising their concerns about how submissions were handled. This is the reply on behalf of the minister from the department of Planning and Environment of 17 October. Download: DPE – Response to Subgroup Letter.pdf »

This presentation was given to REDWatch on 6 October 2022 by LAHC. The Presentation sets out the approach being taken by LAHC to community consultations about the “people” aspects of the Waterloo Estate redevelopment that LAHC want to provide to potential development partners including the CHP that will handle the social housing that will replace … Read more

Waterloo Redevelopment Tenant-Only Subgroup of the Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board has been vocal about their dissatisfaction with DPE’s response to submissions of Waterloo South and has requested that their concerns be formally submitted to the Minister. This is the letter sent at their request. Download: Tenants Letter – Waterloo South Redevelopment Response to Submissions.pdf »

This presentation was made to a REDWatch meeting on 4 August 2022. It mirrors earlier LAHC presentations to the Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board (NAB) the Waterloo Redevelopment Group (WRG) and Non Government Organisations. In affirms LAHC’s decision to proceed with the Waterloo South Redevelopment as the first stage of the Waterloo Estate redevelopment. It sets … Read more

This is a PDF copy of the Newsletter to public housing tenants distributed on 13 July 2022 advising tenants that LAHC is taking the next steps to the renewal of the Waterloo Estate. It sets out a timeframe and process for the appointment of a developer and Community Housing consortium to redevelop Waterloo South and … Read more

This index is to the Waterloo South submissions file which is a single 554 page PDF file (26.4 MB) available through the Department of planning and Environments Waterloo South Exhibition page at https://pp.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/ppr/post-exhibition/waterloo-estate-south. The index is designed to help people easily locate submissions that might be of interest. If you find any errors in the … Read more

This is the Land and Housing Corporation submission on Waterloo South which has been extracted from pages 490 to 511 of the large consolidated submission file. It has to be remembered that while the land that is being rezoned was mainly LAHC owed land, the proposal exhibited was based on an increased City of Sydney … Read more

This is the Waterloo South Planning Proposal submission by Eddie Ma from Vigilanti Download: Waterloo South Planning Proposal – Eddie Ma Submission.pdf »

This is a copy of the Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal submission made by Shelter (NSW). Download: Shelter NSW submission -Waterloo Estate (South) Planning Proposal & Waterloo Estate (South) Design Guide.pdf »

Counterpoint Community Services has finalised its submission on Waterloo South after taking feedback from the Waterloo Redevelopment Group and the community more widely. This is their submission as made to the department of Planning and Environment. Download: Counterpoint CS SUBMISSION Waterloo South Planning Proposal APR 2022.pdf »

This is a copy of the submitted version of the City of Sydney Council Waterloo South submission. A simple summary can be found in the Council presentation to REDWatch on April 7. This is an important read for anyone making a submission as Council identified that the density (number of dwellings) being disclosed by the … Read more

This submission has been made by Alison Ziller to DPE regarding the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. Alison is a specialist in SIAs and teaches a specialist social impact assessment course as part of Macquarie’s planning degrees. Alison has made her submission available early to help those making submissions understand the importance and role of a … Read more

On Thursday 7 April 2022 Council staff presented their analysis of the Waterloo South planning proposal to a REDWatch meeting. The analysis compares the exhibited proposal to the Council’s proposal prior to modification by the Department of Planning. One of the major take outs was that the exhibited proposal was 10% larger than the community … Read more

The Groundswell agencies have written to academics and planning specialists asking them to support public housing tenants by making expert comment on the Waterloo Planning proposal. While public tenants bring their expertise from living and knowing a location, academics and specialists often know the finer detail that is import for planning authorities to consider. Both … Read more

Eddie Ma and his team at Vigilanti has been working with public housing tenants sharing his Architectural expertise during the Waterloo South consultations. Eddie has reviewed the planning proposal documents published by DPIE and prepared a summary of his findings from the documents in simple English with graphics so the community has all the information … Read more