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This is a presentation made by City of Sydney Planners on the Housing Delivery Authority (HDA) and the Council’s concerns about its impact on planning within the City of Sydney Local Government Area. The presentations shows some examples of sites going to the HDA to gain increased floorspace at the expense of the delivery speed … Read more

This is the REDWatch Submission of 14 March 2025 on the Amendments to Sydney Local Environmental Plan and Sydney Development Control Plan. This submission includes issues related to Heritage issues on the Former Eveleigh Railway Workshops including the exclusion of important heritage items from the map and a request for the former yards to be … Read more

These are the presentation slides from the City of Sydney presentation to REDWatch on 4 April 2024. This presentation has two parts. Firstly it explains and responds to the NSW Government mid and low rise proposal to increase density around light and heavy rail stops and town centres. Secondly it explains how the City of … Read more

This is the presentation given to City of Sydney resident groups on 13 February 2024 outlining the the NSW Government proposed changes to create Low and Mid-Rise Housing and how they will affect the City of Sydney. Download: Presentation – NSW Government housing changes – February 2024.pdf »

In February 2022 REDWatch became aware of questions circulating about the future of Council’s Community Centres and facilities. REDWatch wrote to Council about what we had heard and asking for assurances that Redfern Community Centre and Waterloo Library would continue to service our local communities. The attached response from Lord Mayor Clover Moore provides these … Read more

THis is a PDF of the presentation made by the City of Sydney to REDWatch on 5th March 2020 regarding the planning process that will apply to the Elizabeth Street Redfern Build to Rent and the Waterloo estate master plan proposal. PDF 5MB. Download: Waterloo Estate Planning process_Redwatch presentation.pdf »

The City of Sydney have posted their 6 March 2019 presentation in a Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzovf155nq9zsye/181114_OLM_Waterloo.pptx – this file is in PowerPoint format and has two embedded videos and speaker notes producing a very large 294MB file that will be too big for many. REDWatch has produced a PDF of all the slides in the … Read more

Following the City of Sydney presentation. Redfern resident Karen Freyer put together an on-line petition at https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-gladys-berejiklian-mp-the-hon-michael-daley-mp-planning-for-people-not-politics. As many people in Waterloo public housing do not have ready access to computers Karen has also produced a pdf copy that people can print off get signed and return the completed petition to her. Download: Waterloo Petition.pdf … Read more

THis is Shelter NSW’s analysis of the City of Sydney Alternative Master Plan. Download: Waterloo Estate City of Sydney Alternative Master Plan – Shelter NSW Analysis.pdf »

In this media release issued before the City public meeting Urban Taskforce argues that Clover Moore is scaremongering Waterloo Residents – revitalisation is needed. Download: Clover-Moore-is-scaremongering-Waterloo-Residents-revitalisation-is-needed.pdf »

This is Counterpoint Community Services’s submission on the City of Sydney’s Allternative Approach to Waterloo Estate Redevelopment issued on 8 March 2019. Download: CCS SUBMISSION City of Sydney Waterloo Alternative Approach2.pdf »

This PDF shows the plans proposed for the Upgrade of both sides of Abercrombie Street by Council for community consultation in December 2012. Council will accept feedback at Charles Kernan Reserve from 2.30 to 4.30pm on Saturday 8th December 2012. Alerternatively within 10 days of this session you can provide comments to Kristin Gabriel on … Read more

This is the 2008 Process and outcome evaluation of May 2008 by Jenny Bargen of the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan. The Plan was set up initially as part of the NSW Government’s Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project with Council as the lead agency. We have replaced the OCR version of the original file with a … Read more

This is the 2008 Process and outcome evaluation of May 2008 by Jenny Bargen of the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan. The Plan was set up initially as part of the NSW Government’s Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project with Council as the lead agency. This file is a now a text searchable PDF. File is 558 … Read more

This is a project Idea from Sustainable Sydney 2030 which envisages a “Cultural Walk” between Redfern and the Harbour. It includes the proposal for an Australian Indigenous Centre (837 Kb PDF). This PDF is extracted from Pages 248-9 of Supporting document 07 Cultural Creative. Download: 248-9 CULTURAL_CREATIVE.pdf »

This is an extract of Sustainable Sydney 2030 Priority 6.2 that deals with the proposed activity hubs (901Kb PDF). This PDF is extracted from Supporting Documentation 06 Local Communities. Download: 208-12 LOCAL_COMMUNITIES.pdf »

This document has been complied from the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney 2030 Draft Plan. This compilation is designed to provide those with an interest in Redfern Waterloo with information about specific references to the area in the Sydney 2030 draft documents. Key localities are in bold. MS Word 210Kb. Download: Sydney 2030 REDW References … Read more

This is the Cover to the Published Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan Download »