City of Sydney’s planning proposal for Waterloo South – 11 February

The City of Sydney (CoS) Council released its proposal for the planning controls to govern the proposed Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) redevelopment of Waterloo South on 10th February 2021. The Council proposal is part of the papers for the Transport, Heritage and Planning Committee on Monday 1 Read More…

REDWatch Social Impact Assessment Guidelines Submission

REDWatch made a submission to the Department of Planning Industry and Environment on the draft guidelines for Social Impact Assessments (SIA) being required on all State Significant Development Applications and State Significant Infrastructure in November 2020. While the LAHC sites are currently with Council rather than DPIE we have argued in our submission that the… Read More…

Waterloo Metro Exhibition until 2 December

On 5th November 2020 the Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) put the State Significant Development Applications (DAs) for the Waterloo Metro over Station Development (OSD) on exhibition until December 2nd 2020. There are five different DAs that the community is expected to digest and comment on within the 28 days exhibition period! REDWatch… Read More…

Waterloo Metro over Station Development Submissions Guide – Until December 2nd 2020

On 5th November 2020 the Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) put the State Significant Development Applications (DAs) for the Waterloo Metro over Station Development (OSD) on exhibition until December 2nd 2020. There are five different DAs that the community is expected to digest Read More…

LAHC response to the Social Sustainability Study Report recommendations

The Waterloo South Social Sustainability Study contains a table with recommendations from the report and Land and Housing Corporation’s (LAHC) response to those recommendations. As this is a key indicator of what LAHC has committed to in delivering a socially sustainable development we have extracted the table and made it easily accessible. The full amended… Read More…

LAHC Reply on behalf of Ministers re support for tenants and human services

On behalf of Groundswell agencies Counterpoint, Inner Sydney Voice and REDWatch wrote to Minister’s Pavey and Ward regarding a number of matters including the defunding of the support positions for the Waterloo Redevelopment and the future of the promised Waterloo Human Service Plan. The agencies we Read More…

REDWatch Correspondence with Council regarding release of Waterloo South Documents

Following the June 2020 REDWatch meeting, REDWatch wrote to LOrd Mayor, Clover Moore regarding the release of Land and Housing Corporation’s proposal for Waterloo South. Below you will see our letter to Clover and her response which has addressed the concerns that we have raised with her about the l Read More…