Counterpoint Community Services (The Factory Community Centre) Statement
Counterpoint Community Services (The Factory Community Centre) issued the following statement regarding the announcement on 17 December 2015. Read More…
Government Sites Plans & Activities
UrbanGrowth NSW absorbed the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority (SMDA) into UrbanGrowth NSW Development Corporation on 1 January 2013. The SMDA had itself absorbed the Redfern Waterloo Authorit
Links to Waterloo Redevelopment History
Here you will find some of the history behind the announcement to redevelop the Waterloo Public Housing Estate. Read More…
Building Standards — Minimum Requirements for North Eveleigh
The Presentation below was made to a community meeting called by Newtown MP Jenny Leong about Eveleigh on 28 November 2015. The presentation by Bruce Lay sets out minimum requirements that should be asked for on the North Eveleigh and other sites. The meeting supported the recomendations ands resolv Read More…
Sydney Metro Waterloo or Sydney University Options – Until 17th July
Sydney Metro has placed on exhibition until 17th july its proposals for the Metro including the options for a station at Waterloo or Sydney University. Proposals for the new Metro on public exhibition until 17th July 2015. Read More…
REDWatch Submission on the ATP Sale EOI
REDWatch negotiated an exension for groups to comment on the Central to Eveleigh ATP Sale EOI until after the City of Sydney released the indenpendent review of the opportunities and risks relating to the sale of the ATP by HillPDA Consulting. Below is the text of the REDWatch submission setting out Read More…
CoS Mayoral Minute on ATP – 23 February 2015
Below is the text of the Mayoral Minute of 23 February 2015 in response to the HillPDA Consulting independent review of the opportunities and risks relating to the Sale of the the ATP. The minute includes the recommendations put to Council by Lord Mayor Clover Moore. Read More…
Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop collection at Australian Technology Park to be sold
The towering machines clustered in a cavernous workshop in Redfern make up one of the world’s best preserved yet still functioning blacksmithing workshops reports Rose Powell in the Sydney Morning Herald of January 9 2015. Read More…
Mirvac eyes Google for lease
Mirvac Group is gunning hard to take home the prized $200 million-plus Australian Technology Park in inner Sydney. Behind the push is Mirvac’s determination to land a major tenant, such as Google or Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for the site, industry sources said writes Mercedes Ruehl in the Aust Read More…
REDWatch Update on C2E – 22 Jan 2015
This is the text of an email update sent to Central to Eveleigh stakeholders. It deals with the EOI for Sale of the ATP; ATP Information Sessions on the sale; UrbanGrowth Community Engagement; What was on the Blank bit of paper at the Dec UG session; and A Guide to acheiving good outcomes in precinc Read More…
REDWatch Comments on C2E Forum and UrbanGrowth Response
On 9th December 2014 UrbanGrowth C2E held a Thinking and Visioning workshop. Concerns about the process were raised with REDWatch by both those that attended and those that were excluded. REDWatch wrote to the UrbanGrowth NSW Community Engagement Manager responsible for the project (who spoke on com Read More…
Australian Technology Park sale: call for expressions of interest
Australian Technology Park is being sized up for sale as the state government’s multimillion-dollar divestment of public property continues apace reports Leesha McKenny the Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 8 2014. Read More…
REDWatch Request to Council
Following the ATP sale anouncement REDWatch requested Council to assess the impact and report back to the community. Below is the text of the REDWatch request. Read More…
ATP Sale Anouncement
On December 4 2014 the Government announced that UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) would handle an EOI process which closes 30th January 2015 for the sale of the Australian Technology Park. Below are the details of the anouncement and REDWatch’s initial response as circulated in its email updates. Read More…
Background on Eveleigh C2E sites
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
Australian Technology Park Sale
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
Central to Eveleigh Corridor Indicative Development July 2014
In September 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald obtained a Flythrough of the proposed Central to Eveleigh development dated July 3 2014. The flythrough has been updated from the February 2014 version and new buildings from the Locomotive Workshops have been removed. The bulk of other key RWA recognised Read More…
UrbanGrowth Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program 2014-15 Business Plan
This text is extracted from a heavily redacted copy of the “UrbanGrowth Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program 2014-15 Business Plan”. The document was released under a GIPA Request to the Sydney Morning Herald and was the basis of an article on 27th September 2014 titled “Sydney re Read More…
Central to Eveleigh Corridor Indicative Development February 2014
In February 2014 the NSW Government produced a video called “NSW is open for business”. That video included a flythrough of the Central to Eveleigh corridor showing indicative development. A similar fly through was shown in March to the Property Council and released to Channel 9. Below are some stil Read More…
Central to Eveleigh – Some REDWatch Concerns
Prior to the June 2014 UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) focus groups REDWatch raised some concerns about the process proposed with UG. Subsequemtly REDWatch produced the document below to place our concerns in the public domain and to make these concerns available to other groups and stakeholders. The paper bel Read More…
Council Subcommittee to Consider UrbanGrowth MOUs – 22 July 2014
Council’s Planning and Development Committee on Tuesday 22nd July will be considering Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the City Council and UrbanGrowth NSW. Below are details of the MOUs being coinsidered and some REDWatch comments. Read More…