Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
This is the link to the Department of Planning Major Project Register for City of Sydney area – any proposals currently On Exhibition will be coloured Green and be marked “On Exhibition”. This site lists all proposals made to the Department of Planning and allows you to access planning approvals and exhibited documents. http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=search&page_id=&search=&authority_id=547&x=41&y=11
By the end of 2011 all DA’s lodged with the Redfern Waterloo Authority had been processed and all new Development Applications under $10m will now be dealt with by the City of Sydney Council. Until the RWA website disappears this link is to previous approvals. http://www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/development_applications/notices_of_determination.htm
This is the link to the map of City of Sydney Council Development Applications which are currently on exhibition. DA’s under $10m previously dealt with by the earlier Redfern Waterloo Authority are now handled by Council. DA’s over $10m are handled by the Department of Planning. http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Development/DAsOnExhibition/DAExhibitionMAP.asp
This link is to the Summary of Recomendations to the Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues on Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Final Report – Report 41 – November 2008. File is 110Kb PDF. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/5e06cb564943b260ca25750e0002d05d/$FILE/081127%20Final%20Report%20Summary%20of%20Recommendations.pdf
The link is to the Final Report of the Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues on Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage in New South Wales Final Report – Report 41 – November 2008. File is 989Kb PDF. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/5e06cb564943b260ca25750e0002d05d/$FILE/081125%20Final%20Report%20for%20website.pdf
This link is to a Youtube video from the Wrought Artworks openday. It covers extacts from a number of the speaches from the day and some footage of the day. The content covered is broader that the Blacksmith and covers the need for a heritage solution accross the entire site. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4Rg7zkrxc
This is the official RWA Heritage Planning map which shows the buildings recognised by the RWA as of Heritage significance. Such a precinct has great potential for heritage tourism if a well thought out heritage interpretation strategy is put in place. Note file is 3MB PDF. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/rwass/060828SEPPheritage/view
The future shape of north Eveleigh is currently being determined by the Department of Planning. Following consideration of exhibition submissions the RWA has produced a Preferred Project Plan for the Department to assess. Here you can find out more about the issues at North Eveleigh. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh/nemp
This is the sum total of the RWA Heritage interpretation Strategy for the Former Eveleigh Railyards as at October 2008. While the HIS was prepared as part of the North Eveleigh preferred Project Proposal it indicates the RWA is considering a wider heritage strategy across the site. The Eveleigh Heritage Meeting of 28 October 2008 … Read more
This is a letter from 1988 from The Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of American History Washington DC about the importance, and the great rarity of the machinery collection here at Eveleigh. The File is 927 KB PDF with OCR overlay. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith/080722ra/view
Under the RWA proposed zoning the Large Erecting Shop could be replaced by an up to 12 storey building and the ongoing heritage rail tours, maintenance and training could have been lost. There has been a long campaign to save the this operational heritage and RailCorps decision to retain the building for heritage rail use … Read more
As has been shown by the attendance at the Open Day to save the Operational Heritage Blacksmith in the Australian Technology Park, there is substantial interest in this site which preserves former Eveleigh rail yard equipment and operational skills. Having fought to preserve an operating Blacksmith the challenge is to turn this area into an … Read more
Material about the ATP’s Blacksmith Shop and the campaign to save it can be found on the REDWatch website from this link. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/atp/blacksmith
Thgis is the link to the text of the REDWatch submission on the Draft Sydney City Draft Subregional Strategy which was on exhibition until 5th September 2008. http://www.redwatch.org.au/govt/nsw/the-metro-strategy/080905redwatch
Brian Dunnett responded to Robert Domm’s response to the SMH’s “Battle Stations for North Eveleigh” on August 2 and Brian Dunnett’s letter “Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past” that was published in the SMH on the 4th August. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh/nemp/080806bd
This letter was submitted by Robert Domm to the Sydney Morning Herald in response to the SMH’s “Battle Stations for North Eveleigh” on August 2 and Brian Dunnett’s letter “Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past”. In the letter the RWA seeks to address “some of inaccurate commentary about rail heritage that … Read more
This letter was submitted by Robert Domm to the Sydney Morning Herald in response to the SMH’s “Battle Stations for North Eveleigh” on August 2 2008 and Brian Dunnett’s letter “Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past”. In the letter the RWA say “This commercial issue is being misrepresented as a heritage … Read more
This article writen by Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008 about the broader issues of North Eveleigh also covers the University’s plans for North Eveleigh and provides a report from the Community Forum about their dealings with Darlington historically. http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080802smh
This article by Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008 deals with the range of issues surrounding the redevelopment of North Eveleigh. http://www.redwatch.org.au/media/080802smh
This article writen by Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008 about the broader issues of North Eveleigh also covers the problems facing Wrought artworks at the ATP Blacksmith Shop. The articlke reports that “The ALP’s lord mayoral candidate, Meredith Burgmann, says she will lobby her Labor colleagues on behalf of … Read more