Waterloo South Redevelopment: Unpacking the Planning Proposal

This presentation was given on 17 March 2022 at Counterpoint Community Services as part of Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal Capacity Building. This session explains that the Planning Proposal is setting the rules for developers and LAHC to follow in preparing their detailed proposal and Development Applications. This presentation starts with the proposed planning controls rather … Read more

Planning Proposal Authority Presentation on Waterloo South

This presentation was made to the Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board’s Waterloo Redevelopment Group on 16 March 2022. This presentation was made by representatives from a section of the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) that is acting in Council’s stead as the Planning Proposal Authority for the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. This presentation is … Read more

Waterloo Redevelopment – How did we get here?

This is the PowerPoint presentation in PDF format from a presentation given by Geoffrey Turnbull from REDWatch on Wednesday 9 March 2022 for Counterpoint Community Services’ Waterloo (South) Exhibition Planning Proposal Capacity Building. The recording of this presentation and the workshop outcomes will be placed on the Counterpoint Community Services website. The presentation looks at … Read more

Overshadowing Drawings for Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal

Overshadowing Drawings for Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal

The Overshadowing Drawings for the Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal are only found in the Appendix B of the Addendum to urban design report by Hassell. To enable easy access to these drawings that give information of the shadows at different times of the day mid winter and mid summer and at the Equinox, we have … Read more

Floor Space Ratios (FSRs) for Waterloo South Planning Proposal

Floor Space Ratios (FSRs) for Waterloo South Planning Proposal

The main Planning Proposal document does not contain the proposed Floor space rations (FSRs) proposed. The FSR map can be found on page 135 of the Hassell Addendum to the urban design report or spread across two pages of the draft LEP Cadastre maps. We have extracted the FSR map from the Hassell Addendum to … Read more

Solar Access for buildings in the Waterloo South Project Proposal

Solar Access for buildings in the Waterloo South Project Proposal

This diagram illustrates the percentage of solar access to the internal and external perimeter of the building facades for each development block in the Waterloo (South) planning proposal between 9am and 3pm mid winter. Yellow shows greater than 2 hours sun and blue shows less than 2 hours sun. It it from page 114 of … Read more

REDWatch Easy Access Waterloo South LEP

REDWatch has created this easy access version of Waterloo South planning proposal maps. For each of the draft controls to go into the City of Sydney Local environment Plan there are two pages because the join between two of the pages runs through the north western tip of Waterloo South. REDWatch has created this pdf … Read more

Recent research on mixed tenure redevelopment – Dr Laura Crommelin presentation

This presentation by Dr Laura Crommelin – CFRC Fellow from UNSW City Futures Research Centre was presented to a REDWatch meeting on 3 February 2022. The brief presentation deals with recent work on lower-income residents in higher density as well as summarising key findings from research on mixed tenure development, Equitable density and improving outcomes … Read more

Summary of December 2021 community information sessions on Waterloo South

This is a summary made by DPIE of the information provided at the Waterloo South online community sessions on 8 and 9 December 2021. This information was supplied to participants on 19 January 2022 in place of agencies and tenants using any of the material presented at the December workshops. Download: Summary of Waterloo December … Read more

Waterloo Government Agencies Newsletter December 2021

This newsletter was produced for Waterloo public housing tenants by the Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC), Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) as a joint Waterloo Newsletter in December 2021. Download: P0035623 Waterloo Factsheet Final Version_WEB_Dec_21.pdf »

Waterloo Agencies Newsletter September 2021

This newsletter was produced for Waterloo public housing tenants by the Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC), Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) as a joint Waterloo Newsletter in September 2021. Download: Final Waterloo Factsheet_WEB_Sept_21.pdf »

Waterloo South Gateway comunications concerns from WRG

This letter was sent on 27 May 2021 to Ministers and officials concerned with the South Eveleigh Gateway announcing. The letter requests a briefing for tenant representatives and their support agencies prior to any media announcement on the Waterloo South Planning Proposal Gateway determination. The letter is sent on behalf of the Waterloo Redevelopment Group … Read more

Clover Moore’s Update on the Waterloo South redevelopment

This letter received from Lord Mayor Clover Moore on 30 March 2021 explains that the City of Sydney will no longer be the planning authority for the Waterloo South planning proposal that was endorsed by Council and the Central Sydney Planning Committee in February 2021. The letter also advises that Minister Stokes has agreed to … Read more

Groundswell Redfern Waterloo letter to DPIE Secretary and key stakeholders

Groundswell Redfern Waterloo letter jointly produced the following letter to DPIE Secretary Jim Betts and key stakeholders regarding the Minister’s decision that DPIE would take over control of the planning proposal for Waterloo South. The statement was sent to all the key stakeholders including the independent panel members. Organisations adding their support to the letter … Read more

Counterpoint Community Services Waterloo South Response – 15 Feb 2021

This response to Council’s Waterloo South Planning Proposal was issued by Counterpoint Community Services to City of Sydney for the Council Committee and the Centrral Sydney Planning Committee’s consideration of the waterloo South Planning proposal. Download: Redevelopment Response.pdf »

Draft Waterloo South People and Place Plan | For feedback until 14 June 2024

This is the Draft People and Place Plan released on 17 April by Homes NSW Housing Portfolio for input from tenants, stakeholders and community. It describes how the NSW Government and the renewal partner will work together with the community to realise positive outcomes for the people and places in Waterloo South. This document includes … Read more