Waterloo Public Housing & Metro Station Redevelopment

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

REDWatch Preliminary Analysis of Councils Waterloo South Planning Proposal

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The Analysis below was produced by REDWatch and circulated by our email distributiuon lists on 19 February 2021. This analysis seeks to explain some of the key issues arrising from the Council Planning Proposal and some of REDWatch’s concerns. Read More…

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

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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…

Waterloo Metro Exhibition until 2 December

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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

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

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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

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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…

City of Sydney webinar on The Waterloo planning proposal

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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

LAHC’s Waterloo South Plan released by City of Sydney

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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…

Waterloo Plan Changes – REDWatch Update

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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…

Megacity reaching for the sky in a smaller way – Sunday Telegraph Text

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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…

Michael Cassel to replace Anne Skewes as head of Land and Housing Corporation.

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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…

REDWatch response to LAHC and CoS Masterplan Proposals

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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…

City of Sydney Waterloo Animation

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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

City releases alternate plan for Waterloo Estate

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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…