Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Some sites within Redfern-Waterloo were declared areas of State Significant Development in 2005. In February 2006 the RWA released their draft Redfern Waterloo Built Environment Plan (BEP) in conjunct
The following letter was written to the SMH but unpublished. Michael Clarke was involved in 2006 as the Chairman of the Engineering Heritage Committee in correspondence with the Minister over arrangements for Heritage preservation at the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop. Read More…
This petition has been put out by the ALP Meredith Burgmann for Mayor campaign. The petition states: Save the Eveleigh Blacksmith Shop – We call on the Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, to ensure the heritage blacksmithing equipment in place in the Australian Technology Park is preserved. We also call on the Minister to ensure… Read More…
Is the state’s valuable heritage being put under the hammer by a State Government more interested in forging relationships with developers? Asks Quentin Dempster on ABC’s Stateline NSW on 8th August 2008. The report from Reporter Nick Grimm is in the broadcast transcript below. Read More…
BLACKSMITHS in Eveleigh, Sydney, are campaigning against the State Government’s move to evict them from their workshop. For the past 17 years, Wrought Artworks has had free use of the furnace workshop in Bay Two of the Australian Technology Park. Using ancient blacksmith techniques, metal is melted Read More…
IN BAY Two of the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, a scene from another century unfolds writes Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008. Read More…
THE character and culture of inner-city Chippendale is under threat, say residents, from a proposal by the developer of a giant urban renewal project at Broadway to increase the amount of floor space on the site by 10 per cent writes Wendy Frew Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of Au Read More…
Minister for Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor should step in to save the historic blacksmiths shop at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) at Redfern, according to NSW Greens MP, Sylvia Hale in this media release of 6th August 2008. Read More…
This is a resident’s photo montage of the corner of Abercrombie Street and Broadway from Wattle Street based on the Frasers Modified Concept Plan.
Australian musician Chris Gillespie sings a song about an M2 Cockatoo who’s disgusted to find his peaceful bushland home turned into a motorway. Walking home from the latest community information session at the old Carlton United Brewery site on Wednesday July 9, I couldn’t help humming the disgrunt Read More…
Approval of the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s re-development in the Australian Technology Park and North Eveleigh will provide 1,260 new homes for the South Sydney area, but already it has forced some of the existing residents out of their places of business writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydn Read More…