Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Redfern Waterloo is home to many public housing tenants. Changes in both Federal and NSW Government funding and policy over the years is seeing increased pressure on public tenants and on the suburbs
Homes NSW released on 3 December 2024 its much awaited discussion paper on its future operations. Tenants and agencies now have until 17 January 2025 to comment on a range of important questions. The close off date has been extended from 20 December which was a very short period in normal circumstan Read More…
The resolution below was considered by NSW ALP Conference on Sunday 16 October 2022. The motion was strengthened by an amendment from the floor to remove the Words “in principle” from the motion so the final wording was that the motion was supported by the Conference. Read More…
The NSW Government has released a major discussion paper to examine options to deliver improvements to the social housing system on 18 November 2014. Links to the report, media release and other details are provided below. Feedback on the report closes on 20 February 2015
The banner below has been produced by some of those in the Sirius Building. It came to REDWatch with the note that appears below the graphic. Read More…
REDWatch has kept its members and supporters up to date through its email lists. Below we have drawn some of the material from these emails to provide an overview for a wider grouping of REDWatch’s concerns. Read More…
The following letter was issued by the three resident groups in the area under the banner of The Millers Point Community Defence Group following the the anouncement. Read More…
Residents’ Voices is hosting a free resident forum on Social Mix. This informal forum has been designed to allow residents and other community members to ask a panel of independent researchers questions about social mix policies and approaches that are important to residents. This forum is independe Read More…
Housing NSW have declined a REDWatch request that the Preliminary Masterplan be made public for community consultation before it is reported to the Federal Government by advising that “the preliminary masterplanning is an internal working document exploring options for Housing and Property Group’s m Read More…
Housing NSW have released the reports from their planning workshops in November as the basis for the next round of discussions. The separate reports for Redfern and Waterloo include details of what came out of the workshop and a summary at the end of the “Ideas for Improvement”. This summary and the Read More…
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) gave independent advice to help people create better buildings and spaces from 1999 to 2011. Housing NSW has suggested this publication – The Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design as a useful resource in thinking about what makes might make good Urban Design in Redfern and Waterloo. … Read more
The report from the November 2011 Community Design Workshops will be used as one of the inputs to the March 2012 design workshops. Here you can download that report. The ideas generated by the workshops will be used to formulate and refine concepts resulting in preferred concepts which will identify the proposed location for new … Read more
The report from the November 2011 Community Design Workshops will be used as one of the inputs to the March 2012 design workshops. Here you can download that report. The ideas generated by the workshops will be used to formulate and refine concepts resulting in preferred concepts which will identify the proposed location for new … Read more
Waterloo Community Design workshop Souths on Chalmers (265 Chalmers Street, Redfern) Design workshop with the urban planners to contribute your ideas for the future of Redfern. Wed 28 March Day session 9:30– 3 pm or Eve session 6pm– 8:30pm. Lunch or supper provided Day session – English; Russian; Ca Read More…
Redfern Community Design workshop Souths on Chalmers (265 Chalmers Street, Redfern) Design workshop with the urban planners to contribute your ideas for the future of Redfern. Wed 21 March Day session 9:30– 3 pm or Eve session 6pm– 8:30pm. Lunch or supper provided Day session – English; Russian; Ca Read More…
Waterloo walk and talk workshop Meet at the Front of the Matavai building. Guided walk through Waterloo to talk about ideas for the community design workshops. Refreshment provided English, Russian, Cantonese & Mandarin at the following times Chinese speakers 9.30 am; Russian speakers 10:30 am; Engl Read More…
Redfern Walk and Talk Workshop Meet at Our Place, Poet’s Corner Guided walk through Redfern to talk about ideas for the community design workshops. Refreshment provided – English, Russian, Cantonese & Mandarin see times – Mandarin speakers 9.30 am; Russian speakers 10:30 am; Cantonese Speakers 1pm; Read More…
Learn about modern building design so you can bring your ideas to the community design workshops. Light refreshments provided. English
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Languages available English, Russian, Cantonese & Mandarin. Lunch provided.
Housing NSW’s benchmark survey for Redfern & Waterloo showed high levels of dissatisfaction in public tenants dealings with Housing NSW – only half were happy with their dealings in the previous year. This is a state wide issue. On November 22 Housing NSW presented the “Customer Service Benchmarking Read More…
As part of the HNSW Community Design Workshop for the Redfern and Waterloo Preliminary Masterplan HNSW provided a copy of the RWA BEP2 Figure 8 covering Parks Open Spaces and Public Domain to encourage discussion. This file is a 1.1 MB JPG file. http://www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/other/bep2/fig_8_parks_open_space_public_domain_01.jpg