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
This is the map used for the Redfern Waterloo Built Environment Plan Stage 2 (BEP2) Update in November 2009. Note that the area shown is not the same as subsequently used by HNSW for their Master Plan area. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statements/2009/091121doh/image
The Redfern Waterloo Authority and Housing NSW issued the Update below in November 2009. It was handed around at the Redfern Neighbourhood Advisory Board information day on Saturday November 21st 2009. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statements/2009/091121doh
REDWatch is concerned that the RWA will follow the same process used for their earlier Built Environment Plan (BEP) for BEP2 covering the public housing areas of Redfern and Waterloo. The earlier process involved removing the area from the control of council and only allowing a statutory exhibition. Read More…
In preparing the Draft CoS LEP covering the public housing estate areas of Redfern and Waterloo the Council was required to have Consultation with Government departments, adjoining councils and other bodies under section 62 of EP&A Act. This report which was Appendix J in the documents that went to Council on 6 September 2010 says … Read more
Social Mix is a generic buzzword term used by various governments to disguise their policy failures. Failures that have resulted in Poverty, Inequality and Inequity becoming endemic in some sectors of the community. The term is used to create images of manufactured nirvana in the suburbs and to port Read More…
This paper by David Lilley responds to a number of papers given at the Shelter 2010 Conference ‘Estates in the balance: best practice in redevelopment and regeneration of public housing estates’ on Social Mix and de-concentration. David’s comments in this paper were referenced in the REDWatch paper following David’s presentation on behalf of HNSW to … Read more
In early September Housing NSW released separate August 2010 Updates on HNSW activities in Redfern and Waterloo. Both Updates contained the article on HNSW’s pre-development baseline survey titled “Community Survey – a chance to win”. The Updates also contained details of the new Housing Teams servi Read More…
In early September Housing NSW released separate August 2010 Updates on HNSW activities in Redfern and Waterloo. Both Updates contained the article on HNSW’s pre-development baseline survey titled “Community Survey – a chance to win”. The Updates also contained details of the new Housing Teams servi Read More…
Below is a response from Housing NSW to the REDWatch Discussion Paper “Planning for the Redevelopment of Redfern & Waterloo Public Housing – Some of the questions for discussion” in September 2010. Read More…
Urgent action is required not only from developers and planners to address the concerns of people living in greater density, but from the residents themselves. This warning has emerged from a report which Shelter NSW recently commissioned from the City Futures Research Centre at the University of Ne Read More…