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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

These changes were proposed by changes to Community Participation Plan in June-July 2025. The proposed changes were to reduce public exhibition timeframes from 28 to 14 days for certain residential State Significant Development (SSD) applications Submission which included Homes NSW developments. This is REDWatch’s submission on that proposal. Download: REDWatch Submission on Exhibition Reduction 250717.pdf … 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

The following is an open letter signed by the attached Australian community and faith-based organisations, academics and unions listed below, for your and your Government’s attention. November 2016. Download: Open Letter to the Premier – Affordable Housing.pdf »

At its July 2013 meeting REDWatch held a roundtable discussion on the important and topical issue of NIMBYs. This is a PDF of the PowerPoint REDWatch used for that discussion. We have attributed where quotes come from you can follow up areas that may be of interest. File is 78KB PDF. Download: NIMBY.pdf »

This is the Better Planning Network’s Submission on the White Paper: A New Planning System for NSW and Associated Planning Bills. File is 825 KB PDF. Download: BPN Submission White Paper and Planning Bills .pdf »

In February 2012, the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) released a report “Anti Corruption Safeguards and the NSW Planning System” (the Report) that identified six corruption prevention safeguards that would reduce the frequency of corruption if integrated into the NSW planning system. These safeguards, together with comments on where the Bills fall short, are … Read more

One of the main changes in the prosed NSW New Planning System is to remove the current Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) from the Planning Act. In NSW ESD is referenced in 60 other Acts. It is proposed to replace ESD with “Sustainable Development” without the current principles that define ESD in the Act. The Department … Read more

This is a report on the Key Issues Discussed at the Better Planning Network Community Forum on the Planning White Paper in the NSW Parliament Theatrette on 20 May 2013. File is 332 KB PDF. Download: BPN COMMUNITY FORUM 20 05 13 KEY ISSUE RAISED- updated.pdf »

The Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney contains detailed directions for subregional planning. This advice guides each subregion in helping to achieve the desired outcomes for Sydney to 2031 under the New Planning System. Attached is what the Metroi Strategy proposes for the 17 councils of the Central Subregions including the inner city suburbs like Redfern and … Read more

These maps show some of the priorities in the Draft Metro Strategy 2031 that impact on the Inner City. These maps are taken from Section 3 – Balanced Growth and show pages 19, 20, 21, 23 & 24. File is 6.4 MB PDF. Download: Inner_City_Growth.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 presentation made by Prof Peter Phibbs to a REDWatch Workshop on 13 March 2012 on Planning for Non Planners. The presentation is an abbreviated presentation of a 1 day course Peter provides at UWS. The presentation provides an overview of the planning system and how it operates. The presentation is here as … 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