Minister’s media release on Redfern North Eveleigh Paint Shop Precinct Rezoning until 25 August

This is the text of Minister Stoke’s media release regarding the rezoning of the Paint Shop Precinct of Redfern North Eveleigh of 26 July 2022. Links to related sites about the site and the exhibition have been added to the foot of this post. Read More…

REDWatch Submission on the Redfern North Eveleigh Strategic Vision

This is the text of the REDWatch submission of 26 April 2021 on the Transport for NSW (TfNSW) Redfern North Eveleigh Strategic Vision. Read More…

REDWatch Redfern Station & North Eveleigh Connectivity

This paper was prepared for a Workshop on 22 April 2021 to explore Redfern Station & North Eveleigh Connectivity. It deals with issues related to bus connectivity at Redfern Station, the operation of the Southern Concourse, movements from Waterloo Metro to Sydney University and the need for North an Read More…

Redfern North Eveleigh Strategic Vision on Exhibition until 23 April 2021

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) has released its Strategic Vision (PDF, 12.05 MB) to guide the renewal and redevelopment of the Redfern North Eveleigh Precinct. Exhibition has been extended until April 23 2021. Read More…

Redfern North Eveleigh Place Design Forum – 26-27 August 2020

2020 Planning for Redfern North Eveleigh will kick off with a Place Design Forum – 26-27 August 2020 that REDWatch has been asked to attend akong with other community. business, education and government stakeholders. REDWatch has been involved in discussions about the redevelopment of North Eveleigh 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…

North Eveleigh Affordable Housing Approved

The Department of Planning and Infrastructure anounced on 25 October 2013 that the application for affordable housing on North Eveleigh had been approved. The Department also advised that they had amended the North Eveleigh Concept Plan to allow the building to increase in height to 7 storeys. The d Read More…

Darlington TMAP and heritage

The following response for Lord Mayor Clover Moore to issues raised by REDWatch deals with Councils recent involvement with the SMDA / UGDC in preparing a TMAP dealing with the impact of the North Eveleigh development and in exploring Council’s role in heritage activities at North Evleigh. The lette Read More…

City West in North Eveleigh

City West Housing (CWH) has been appointed as the affordable housing provider for the North Eveleigh affordable housing project initiated by the RWA now UrbanGrowth Development Corporation. CWH is to undertake the design, seek planning approval, construct and manage a minimum of 61 affordable housin Read More…

North Eveleigh Parks – Invitation to Contribute to Design by 17 December 2012

Two new parks of 3,350sm and 445sm are being proposed for the Newtown end of the North Eveleigh site. In an area where there is a low proportion of open space per capita it is very important to design these parks so that they meet the needs of those in the surrounding community and those visiting Ca Read More…

Landscaping for Park near North Eveleigh Western Entrance

The landscaping and park proposed to the east of the new western entrance to North Eveleigh and Carriageworks has been approved in the road and early works approval. To make the details readily available REDWatch has requested additional details from the SMDA and these are provided below. Read More…

SMDA To Start North Eveleigh Affordable Housing Project

The SMDA have posted their response to community submissions and anounced they will start work on the infrastructure required for the North Eveleigh Affordable Housing project. The announcement issued an email statement and placed details on their website on 13 November 2012. The details from their Read More…

North Eveleigh could be New Enterprise Zone :Green Paper – Exhibition until 14 Sept 2012

The NSW Government released on 14 July its Green paper on the new Planning System, it is on exhibition until 14 September. The plan proposes greater up front community involvement in where development goes with less community input once these decisions have been made. Included in green paper are new Read More…

North Eveleigh Early Works conflicts with Concept Plan Approval : REDWatch

REDWatch opposes the SMDA Early Works proposal as it both differs from the Approved North Eveleigh Concept Plan and is in direct conflict with the Concept Plan Approval conditions. The details of the REDWatch comparison of the Early Works Application and the North Eveleigh Concept Plan Approval is p Read More…

Funding for 61 Affordable Housing Units at North Eveleigh

The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP Federal Minister for Housing and The Hon Brad Hazzard MP, Minister for Planning and Infrastructure in NSW made a joint release on 18th April 2012 announcing that the federal Housing Affordability Fund is funding infrastructure for the placement of 61 affordable housing un Read More…

REDWatch Letter Regarding Sydney University & North Eveleigh

The letter below was sent on 24 May 2010 by REDWatch individually to local politicians urging “the state government and Sydney University enter into negotiations to overcome whatever non-financial obstacles exist to the sale of the North Eveleigh site to the University.” The letter was sent to Kristina Keneally, Carmel Tebbutt, Ferity Firth, Tanya Plibersek … Read more