Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
This is statement put out by some furious Eveleigh volunteers following the announcement that one of The Large’s landmark carriages re-built by volunteers from a discarded carriage is listed for sale by RailCorp as part of their heritage rolling stock divestment. File is 47 KB PDF and has photos of the carriage. Download: cpj.pdf »
The nomination of the Large Erecting Shop and its contents for National Heritage Listing is still proceeding while the NSW Office of Rail Heritage is looking to disperse the contents. This Media Release from Friends of Eveleigh of 17th April covers the Old Commissioner’s Car repair and non-return to its registered home at the Large, … Read more
This is the PDF of the “North Eveleigh Concept Plan Part 3A Major Project Application Preliminary Environmental Assessment Submitted to the department of Planning Prepared by the Redfern Waterloo Authority January 2008”. The document includes the “Preliminary Heritage Assessment North Eveleigh Concept Plan for Redfern Waterloo Authority by Weir + Phillips December 2007” and a … Read more
This is the copy of the Director General’s requirements for RWA’s North Eveleigh Concept Plan Application. We have overlayed text from OCR (Optical Character recognition). OCR can be inaccurate so please check any text copied against the scanned document to ensure there are no OCR errors in the text you are selecting. By creating an … Read more
The maps that appears in the Preliminary Concept Plan have been reduced in size to make the document size electronically manageable. As a result the detail on the maps is blurred and the Colour in the Legend and the map do not match. We have pointed these problems out to the RWA and they have … Read more
This is an update from Friends of Eveleigh about the ongoing Heritage Rail activities at the Large Erecting Shop in January 2008. PDF 60 KB. Download: ALIVE AND ACTIVE.pdf »
The Combined Chippendale Community Groups have asked that their response to the Elton Consulting Social Context Report v1 which is posted on the Frasers Broadway website be also made available to the community. The CCCG letter contains some useful statistics about Chippendale Issues. 351 KB PDF. Download: CCCG Response 20071116.pdf »
In June 2007 the Department of Planning placed on public exhibition the Environmental Assessment documents for the proposed National Indigenous Development Centre (NIDC). The NIDC is to be constructed on the site of the old Redfern Public School on George Street. During the 30-day exhibition period the Department received various submissions from the local community … Read more
On 30th September 2007 RailCorp authorised the movement from the protection of Eveleigh’s Large Erecting Shop of the Commissioners carriages. These carriages are two of the states most valuable heritage carriages and are listed on the State Heritage Register. A week later with their roof now peeling, the carriages are sitting at Thirlmere in the … Read more
This is a copy of the RWA letter of 23 August 2007 amending the “Statement of Environmental Effects” that the RWA submitted to itself for the Blacksmith Shop remediation and re-development. Download: da0210507_amendment.pdf »
True Fictions on the Stay in Touch Column of the SMH on June 18th 2007 ran the attached made up story “Hot dog: how the giant frank will transform Sydney’s skyline – CUB site to get world’s biggest frank”. File is 307 Kb Jpg.
This ILC table sets out the likely time frame for the approval process for the NIDC. (15Kb PDF) Download: Approvalprocess_timelime.pdf »
This media release from FOE contains photos of 3801 being turned at Eveleigh and coaled at Mortuary Station and asserts that Eveleigh is the best place for turning, watering, coaling and for security of the states valuable rail heritage (685Kb PDF). Download: media110607.pdf »
This is a copy of the “Statement of Environmental Effects” that the RWA submitted to itself for the Blacksmith Shop remediation and re-development. The Appendices referred to in this document are available separately on the RWA website. Download: Eco_SEE_070501.pdf »
This is a copy of the main NIDC proposal which was placed on Public exhibition on 17th May 2007 until 15 June 2007. PDF 2.2MB. Download: 06_0267_indigenousyouth_envtasst_main.pdf »
This photmontage shows what is planned for the former Black theatre Site in Redfern.
This photo montage was on display at the ILC Open day. File is 238 Kb Jpg.
This photo montage was on display at the ILC Open day. File is 159 Kb Jpg.
This photo montage was on display at the ILC Open day. File is 127 Kb Jpg.
This is a copy of the updated Master Plan map that was on display at the ILC Open day at the former Redfern School site. The file is PDF 2.2MB. Download: MASTERPLAN 0701.PDF »