Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Current ATP Master Plan to be revised to increase FSR from 1.2:1 to 2:1 with maximum heights increasing from 9 to 12 storeys. RWA estimate final ATP floor space will increase by 20% to 200,000 square
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
History could be torn from its roots in one of Sydney’s most historic precincts if the Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s (RWA) eviction of the blacksmiths at the Eveleigh Railway Yard substantiates reports Emma Kemp in City News of 5th July 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. Download: Smithsodian Institute – Washington DC.PDF »
An Open Day will be held on Sunday 17th August 2008 from 10am – 2 pm at the ATP’s Blacksmiths Shop with tours on the hour of the workshop, blacksmithing demonstrations and explanations of steam powered blacksmithing assemblages by Guido the Blacksmith. The Blacksmiths have been served a Notice to quit by the RWA so … Read more
NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF LICENSE AND NOTICE TO QUIT; 2008 To Guido Gouverneur & Wrought Artworks PL. File is 139 PDF. Download: Notice Eviction Doc005.pdf »
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE MINISTER FOR URBAN AFFAIRS AND PLANNING ;1997 Titled WORLD CLASS MACHINERY SAVED. This $300 k Government grant did not get used for its granted purpose which was to conserve and make the machinery operational. File is 164 KB PDF. Download: News Release World Class Machinery Doc 4.pdf »
DETERMINATION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION NO 6/96 – CONSERVATION AND REUSE OF THE LOCOMOTIVE WORKSHOPS, EVELEIGH PRECINCT, CITY WEST. 1996: Granted by the Minister of Urban Affairs and Planning on the basis of the attached schedule. His Consent Condition No: 20 reads ‘The Conservation Management Plan for the building endorsed by the heritage Council on 1June … Read more
Development Application for proposed Technology Park Uses, Exhibition Space, Historic Machinery Exhibits and Educational Facilities at THE LOCOMOTIVE WORKSHOPS EVELEIGH for the AUSTRALIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK SYDNEY LTD: 1996 . States “Bays 1 & 2 are to maintained as an operational Workshop. This are is currently occupied (leased by Wrought Artworks). It is the aim of … Read more
This is from the Conservation Management Plan 1995 Final draft, considered the last document.This is the document that the Minister of Planning refers to in his Determination of Consent. States “Bay 1 & 2 South to remain an operational workshop…..it is appropriate and desirable that a blacksmithing operation remains a long term feature of the … Read more
EVELEIGH PRECINCT CONSERVATION POLICY -The very first Conservation Policy by the NSW Planning Department, funded by the Federal ” Better Cities program” 1994. This details what functions the Active Workshop , being ‘the preferred option’ ,overall operation could include. ( All of the criteria of work is performed by Wrought Artworks). File is 331 KLb … Read more