Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Estate renewal and housing mix is portrayed by government as a fix-all for public housing estates. Geoff Turnbull in Inner Sydney Voice magazine asks can new buildings alone really address the problems created when government place people with higher and higher needs into public housing without the wrap around human services necessary for them to … Read more
Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance released the Future Transport 2056 draft strategy alongside the release of the Greater Sydney Commission’s draft Greater Sydney Region Plan – the first time long-term planning and transport have been done in direct collaboration. Future Transport 2056 is a comprehensive strategy to ensure the way we travel is … Read more
Our Greater Sydney 2056– A Metropolis of Three Cities (draft Greater Sydney Region Plan), launched in conjunction with Transport for NSW’s draft Future Transport 2056 strategy will reshape Greater Sydney as a metropolis of three cities – Eastern, Central and Western, rebalancing it, fostering jobs, improving housing affordability, easing congestion and enhancing our enviable natural … Read more
This article was run in Inner Sydney Voice’s Redeveloping Waterloo public housing edition. It sets out what was provided to tenants at the beginning of the visioning process. http://www.innersydneyvoice.org.au/pub/government-undertakings-waterloo/
Inner Sydney Voice produced an overview of the master planning process in their Redeveloping Waterloo Public Housing edition. You can see the details about the process here http://www.innersydneyvoice.org.au/pub/know-waterloo-redevelopment/
Land and Housing Corporation have posted an online survey on their Communities Plus website. This is the same survey they encourage people to take at popups and drop in sessions. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/waterloo-detailed-survey
This is an overview of the major government, non-government and community organisations and projects around the Waterloo master planning. It was prepared by Geoff Turnbull for the special editon of Inner Sydney Voice on on Redeveloping Waterloo Public Housing. This version updates earlier Who’s Whos that have appeared on the REDWatch website and in the … Read more
Inner Sydney Voice produced a special edition of their magazine for the Waterloo master planing. Copies were distributed to all public tenants in the area proposed to be redeveloped. This issue both provides background to the proposed master planning as well as articles on the issues that will need to be considered. This is a … Read more
Stealing Our Skies report that as a result of public and council comment the UK based applicant, Scape (http://www.scape.com/) has made small amendments to its initial proposal. The scale, density and amenity of the development, however, may still concern current local residents. You can see their concerns here but must make a submission by 28 … Read more
Inner Sydney Voice Magazine runs a broad range of articles written by experts in their field. These articles cover a broad range of topics relevant to inner Sydney including housing, urban issues, civil society and human services. While sometimes we produce special issues, like the one on Redeveloping Public Housing or Making the NDIS work … Read more
On 26 May 2017 NSW Planning and Environment posted the Study Requirements for the Waterloo State Significant Precinct. Please note that there are two different sets of study requirements in this document and they are not identical – one covers the Waterloo Estate (pages 8-32) and the other covers the Metro quarter (pages 35-55). A … Read more
This link takes you to the Department of Planning’s Major Project site where you can see all the documents related to the Mirvac State Significant Development Application (SSD 15_7317). As the development proceeds all documents are publically accessable on this site. http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=7317
Mirvac took the opportunity to lodge a request for the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements with the Department of Planning prior to their bid being accepted. This link takes you to the Department of Planning’s Major Project site where you can see all the documents related to the Mirvac development as it proceeds. http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=7317
The Winter edition of ISV looked in considerable detail at the NSW Government’s Communities Plus mechanism for delivering the Government’s Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW. The issue looks at the Waterloo announcement and what can be learnt from earlier public housing redevelopments. The issue also contains articles, many by experts in their field, … Read more
This short video features Sydney University’s Prof Peter Phibbs talking about Affordable Housing and Inclusionary Zoning in New York and Australia. The Video includes and comments from American experts about the New York approach and the response to it. This video was used to introduce the topic to a REDWatch Affordable Housing meeting on December … Read more
This is the video of Ross Smith talking about Waterloo that was shown at the Celebration of his Life on 18 November 2016. https://vimeo.com/191385262
The exhibition for the Sydney Metro City & Southwest – Chatswood to Sydenham project including Waterloo Station is on exhibition until 27 June 2016. You can make a submission at this link. You should indicate if you supoport or opppose the project and make your comments – such as its impact on the Waterloo public … Read more
Central to Eveleigh takes in the former Eveleigh Railyards sites that were covered by the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s Built Environment Plan One (BEP1). REDWatch has been involved with these sites for a long time and this information is available inanother part of this site under BEP1. This link takes you to that part of the … Read more
Material relating to the proposed sale by UrbanGrowth of the Australian Technology Park can be found in the ATP secion of this website. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp
While not covered by BEP1 there has been a lot of planning done about Redfern Station over the last decade. Some of this material has been released under Freedom of Information / GIPA requests. Here you can see the background on Redfern Station which will also form part of the Central to Eveleigh Redfern Precinct. … Read more