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On 15 December 2015 the NSW Government anounced that a station on its proposed Metro railway line would be built at Waterloo. The Metro anouncement was accompanied by the anouncement that the Waterloo
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…
The City of Sydney has produced an excellent webinar based on their presentation to REDWatch on 9 July 2020. The webinar is on the Council’s Waterloo South webpage. This webinar is highly recommended as it provides an excellent explanation of the LAHC proposal and the approach Council is taking to assessing LAHC’s proposal. https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/development/strategic-plans-planning-controls/plans-policies-places-under-review/planning-proposal-request-waterloo-estate-south?wvideo=92paerwgd4
Following representations from REDWatch, Agencies and public tenants, the City of Sydney has released a plan showing proposed heights and layout of Land and Housing Corporation’s proposal for Waterloo South. In releasing the plan the Council has reworked their web page to show the LAHC proposal alon Read More…
LAHC has verbally advised Counterpoint Community Services that it will not extend the funding for the Waterloo Community Development, Aboriginal Liaison and bi-lingual educators (Russian and Chinese) past the end of June 2020. Read More…
This on line meeting will be part of the pre-DA consultation for the Waterloo Metro and above station development. Read More…
Below you will find REDWatch’s analysis of the material released by Council and LAHC about the rezoning proposal for Waterloo South LAHC have submitted to the City of Sydney Council. This material was sent out as a REDWatch Email Update to Members, Supporters and Agencies Read More…
The Communities Plus site contains a number of new artists impressions that have not been seen elsewhere. It also shows the new map dividing Waterloo Estate into South, Central and North precincts. https://www.communitiesplus.com.au/major-sites/waterloo
Clover Moore responded to the announcement of the Waterloo South lodgement on Facebook on 1 June 2020. The text of the post is below. Read More…
This media release was issued on Sunday 31 May 2020 jointly by Melinda Pavey, Minister for Water, Property & Housing, Rob Stokes Minister for Planning and Public Spaces and Gareth Ward Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services.
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This information was placed on the City of Sydney website on 29 May 2020. On the City website it was spread over a number of pages but for ease of access we have bought this together in one document and only used some graphics. Read More…
This is the text of the print edition of The Sunday Telegraph article of 31 May 2020 page 27 entitled “Megacity reaching for the sky in a smaller way”. This article contained some information about LAHC’s revised proposal for Waterloo Estate as well as some details of what was proposed on the Southe Read More…
In the Newcastle Herald article below of 20 September 2019, it was announced that Michael Cassel would move from the Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation to head up the Land and Housing Corporation responsible for the Communities Plus program and the Waterloo and redfern public housing r Read More…
In the response below REDWatch calls for LAHC to release supporting material so that the community can understand their Preferred Masterplan. REDWatch also calls for a further consultation on the Prefered Masterplan before it is formally submitted for exhibition. Read More…
by REDWatch — last modified Mar 04, 2019 07:04 PM — History This is an animation comparing the LAHC Preferred Masterplan with the City of Sydney Council’s alternative proposal. The REDWatch website does not allow embedded video so this file produced by the City of Sydney is only available for download. https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/videos/a-better-way-for-waterloo-housing-estate
The City of Sydney today released an alternate proposal for the NSW Government’s redevelopment of the Waterloo Housing Estate, calling on the Government to scrap their current plan and hand planning control of the site back to the City of Sydney. The media release is below. Read More…
At the City of Sydney Council Meeting on 11 February 2019, Lord Mayor Clover Moore moved a mayoral minute dealing with “The Devastating Impacts of State Planning on the City of Sydney”. This Minute made reference to the Waterloo Redevelopment and contained a recommendation that Council host a public Read More…
REDWatch made the submission below on the Waterloo Metro SSP and SSDA on 30 January 2019. Read More…
On 23 January 2019 afternoon Minister Prue Goward released the Preferred Master Plan proposal for the redevelopment of the Waterloo Estate. Here are links to the plan and some preliminary comments by REDWatch. Read More…
Clover Moore has written to her supporters asking them to make submissions about the Waterloo Metro exhibitions. Below we have provided the details supplied by Clover. We have also taken the issues Clover’s planners have raised in the form of a submission that you can copy and modify into the Planni Read More…
On 11 January LAHC released their Options Testing Consultation Report. This report documents for the SSP process the outcomes of the options testing phase of consultation for the Waterloo Redevelopment. It also incorporates an overview of the findings of the initial visioning phase of the consultati Read More…