Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Redevelopment of Public Housing is on both the RWA and the Department of Housing agenda. Here we have bought together some material about redevelopment plans in Redfern Waterloo and the current Govern
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…
This Height map for the HNSW Planning Master Plan area has been extracted from the Draft Local Environment Plan (LEP) that City of Sydney put to the Department of Planning for Approval and Exhibition in September 2010. This map is provided for easy comparison of the council’s proposed controls with the alternative controls produced by … Read more
This FSR map for the HNSW Planning Master Plan area has been extracted from the Draft Local Environment Plan (LEP) that City of Sydney put to the Department of Planning for Approval and Exhibition in September 2010. This map is provided for easy comparison of the council’s proposed controls with the alternative controls produced by … Read more
The following response to the REDWatch Discussion paper was received from RWA CEO Roy Wakelin-King on 26 August 2010. It has been added to the REDWatch site to ensure the RWA’s comments about the paper are also available to those reading the REDWatch paper. Read More…
This is an aerial map photo map showing the area covered by Housing NSW’s Preliminary Master Plan. The map is labeled with the names of the HNSW high rise buildings. Note that this map is different from that used in November 2009 to indicate the RWA BEP2 area. The Map is a large 3.4 MB … Read more
REDWatch’s Discussion Paper of 23 August 2010 discusses a recent HNSW meeting “Hava Cuppa with a Designa” and raises some key questions about the future of Redfern & Waterloo public housing and ask: is “Social Mix” a mantra or a resourced solution? The paper aims to encourage discussion about the pl Read More…
In 2009 HNSW began the process of transferring 3,000 of its properties to community housing providers across the state and hopes to finish the transfer this year. Now many HNSW residents wait with bated breath to find out if their tenancies will stay with the Government or will be transferred on to Read More…
Don’t be cajoled and soft-soaped into accepting unquestioningly the government’s Stock Transfer program. Make sure that there is a full and balanced debate in your community so that tenants hear both sides of the argument around Stock Transfer, the government’s chosen vehicle for delivering privatis Read More…
The universal answer from Housing NSW, and some other public housing providers, when confronted with a problem of their own making whose cure they have placed in the ‘too hard’ basket is to say “sell”. This announcement is frequently closely followed by an endorsement of the yet to be definitively d Read More…