Redevelopment

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

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

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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…

REDWatch Information Required and Received for Consultation on Public Housing

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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

City of Sydney Council Submission on Draft BEP2

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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

HNSW Redfern Waterloo Community Baseline Survey

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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

Research Articles on Social Mix

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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

Publicly Accessible Literature Relating to Social Mix

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REDWatch, as well as a number of other stakeholders from Redfern and Waterloo, have requested research material on the topic of social mix. Below is a preliminary overview of some of the material available, with a focus on material that is available for download free of charge. It is proposed that more extensive work be … Read more

Link to information on RWA BEP2

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The information about the RWA’s Built Environment Plan Phase 2 (BEP2) is found on the RWA section of this site. The section you are currently in contains information from Housing NSW, City of Sydney and other sources about Public Housing Issues including the redevelopment of public housing. For Information specifically about RWA BEP2 follow this … Read more

Council Draft LEP Consultation with RWA & HNSW

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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

Map of HNSW land covered by Redfern & Waterloo Redevelopment

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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

Redfern’s $28 Million Housing Redevelopment Underway

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Minister for Housing, Matt Brown announced on 9 January 2008 that the demolition of old public housing buildings in Redfern is underway to make way for better, greener homes for those in need reports this media release from Matt Brown NSW Minister for Housing . http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080109hn/