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…
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
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
As part of the HNSW Community Design Workshop for the Redfern and Waterloo Preliminary Masterplan HNSW provided a copy of the RWA BEP2 Figure 6 to encourage discussion. This file is a 1 MB JPG file. http://www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/other/bep2/fig_6_activity_nodes_01.jpg
This month the Redfern Waterloo Preliminary Master Plan Project is focusing on connections in and around the neighbourhoods reports an Update from Housing NSW on 17 September 2011. Here REDWatch has combined information from two HNSW Updates on this months topic as well as details of this months bus Read More…
This link is to a list of reports, information and activity that is been sort by REDWatch. This is information and reference material relevant to community discussion about BEP2 & the Housing NSW Affordability Fund Preliminary Master Plan. As documents are supplied we will indicate this on the list with a link to the information. … Read more
The City of Sydney Submission tested various aspects of the Draft BEP2 and made a number of recommendations for changes to the plan. The council also proposed lower densities for the Redfern public housing estate and increased density in Waterloo arround a proposed new railway station. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/bep2/110331cos
Documents connected to the Monthly Engagement programme for the Preliminary master Plan can be found here http://www.redwatch.org.au/issues/public-housing/redevelopment/hnsw/engage
This is a copy of the Redfern Waterloo baseline survey (promoted as the Redfern Waterloo Community Survey) which was undertaken by Sweeney Research, a market research company, on behalf of Housing NSW about how tenants felt about their community and what was important to them. The rationale of the survey was to establish base line … Read more
Below is a list of references for relevant theoretical and empirical papers relating to de-concentration and social mix prepared by Housing NSW. A link to a second document containing links to material available online is at the foot of this page. This list has been prepared by HNSW and supplied as a result of requests … Read more