Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
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
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
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 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
This 10 minute video is about Wrought Artworks who have operated the ATP Blacksmith Shop for the last 17 years as part of heritage conservation at the ATP. The RWA has now served them with a notice to quit the premises and a campaign is being run to maintain the Blacksmith operations at the ATP. … Read more
The Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced the approval of a concept plan for the $70 million residential redevelopment of the former Rachel Forster Hospital at Redfern on 11th October 2007. A copy of the text of media statement of the announcement can be found at the link below. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statements/2007/071011rwa
Helen Campbell provided the details supplied from REDWatch of the changes to the Human Services Ministerial Advisory Committee in July 2007. These changes can be seen at the link below. http://www.redwatch.org.au/update/update070724#_Toc173048902
In their submission to the NSW Tourism Review Friends of Eveleigh have spelt out their vision for how the Large Errecting Shop could continue as a functional Heritage Railway Workshop servicing rail heritage throughout the state while at the same time providing a tourist destination for public access into the “Large” to view heritage rail … Read more
The is an appendix to the CCCG submission to the CUB Site Concept Plan Submission contained as an appendix a printout of National Pollutant Inventory Emission Report for Postcode 2008 for the years 2003-4 when the brewery was still operational. The link to this data in the database is provided below. http://www.npi.gov.au/cgi-bin/npireport.pl?proc=location_detail;instance=public;year=2004;loc_type=postcode;loc_postcode=2008
Foster’s have provided a separate website to display the documents to be displayed for the Concept Plan exhibition. The link to the site is provided below: http://www.cubproject.com.au/
This submission includes the Assessment of Adequacy of the Large Erecting Workshop. http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/southeveleigh/large/
The ILC has now created a web page on their site with details of the National Indigenous Youth Development Centre Redfern. The site contains PDF fact sheets on the services that will be using the new centre as well as PDF files of two of the three display boards at the unveiling of plans for … Read more