Housing NSW Masterplan takes Shape

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 Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design – CABE UK

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

Redfern Nov 2011 Community Design Workshop Report – HNSW Masterplan

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 Nov 2011 Community Design Workshop Report – HNSW Masterplan

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 – 28 March 9.30am or 6pm

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 – 21 March 9.30am or 6pm

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 on ideas for the community design workshops – 13 March 2012

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 on ideas for the community design workshops – 6 March

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…

RWA BEP2 Parks Open Spaces and Public Domain

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

RWA BEP2 Activity Nodes

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

HNSW Masterplanning Workshop for Redfern – 23 Nov 9.30am

Each workshop will be a hands-on planning process, in which residents, planners, stakeholders, landowners and others will collaborate on ideas for the Preliminary Masterplan. HNSW Workshops will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2011 about Redfern and on Thursday 24 November 2011 about Waterloo. For Read More…

HNSW Masterplanning Workshop for Redfern – 23 Nov 6.00pm

Each workshop will be a hands-on planning process, in which residents, planners, stakeholders, landowners and others will collaborate on ideas for the Preliminary Masterplan. HNSW Workshops will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2011 about Redfern and on Thursday 24 November 2011 about Waterloo. For Read More…

HNSW Masterplanning Workshop for Waterloo – 24 Nov 9.30am

Each workshop will be a hands-on planning process, in which residents, planners, stakeholders, landowners and others will collaborate on ideas for the Preliminary Masterplan. HNSW Workshops will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2011 about Redfern and on Thursday 24 November 2011 about Waterloo. For Read More…

HNSW Masterplanning Workshop for Waterloo – 24 Nov 6.00pm

Each workshop will be a hands-on planning process, in which residents, planners, stakeholders, landowners and others will collaborate on ideas for the Preliminary Masterplan. HNSW Workshops will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2011 about Redfern and on Thursday 24 November 2011 about Waterloo. For Read More…

HNSW Preliminary Masterplan – Updates for residents – Community Facilities – 17 Sept 2011

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…

HNSW Redfern Waterloo Community Baseline Survey

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