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

Invitation to the Future Planning Centre Open Day & Launch June 24th 11-4pm

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This is the project you may have earlier referred to as a community master plan. This process will now do work that will formally feed into the LAHC Master Planning process. You are invited to drop down to the centre which is near the IGA in the middle of the estate on Saturday 24 June from 11-4pm. Read More…

Living Well in Greater Density? Perks and Challenges of high-density neighbourhoods.

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The independent Waterloo Capacity building Project is holding a community discussion facilitated by a panel including Dr Hazel Easthope a housing researcher at UNSW; Sean Macken an Urban Planner and Dr Tim Williams an Urban Renewal Specialist. Read More…

Waterloo Estate Social Sustainability Assessment

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A Social Sustainability Assessment is one of the key studies for the Waterloo Estate under the Waterloo State Significant Precinct Study requirements. Here we have bought together information about the study requirements and about GHD the consultancy doing the work. In 2012 GHD did some scoping work Read More…

Waterloo State Significant Precinct (SSP) Studies and Consultants

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NSW Planning and Environment have posted details of the studies required for the Waterloo State Significant Precinct, Land and Housing Corporation has posted a summary of these requirements and information about how and by whom the studies will be undertaken. In addition there have been two sessions Read More…

Council’s Role in the Waterloo SSP and the Project Review Panel

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According to the Precinct Declaration The Department of Planning and Environment has established a Project Review Panel for the Nominated State Significant Precinct – Waterloo. It also provides some information alongside the initial announcement that gives us information about the City of Sydney Cou Read More…

Study Requirements Nominated State Significant Precinct – Waterloo May 2017

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On 26 May 2017 NSW Planning and Environment posted the Study Requirements for the Waterloo State Significant Precinct. Please note that there are two different sets of study requirements in this document and they are not identical – one covers the Waterloo Estate (pages 8-32) and the other covers the Metro quarter (pages 35-55). A … Read more

Quick Waterloo Traffic Study!

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Land and Housing Corporation advised that a quick Traffic Study was being undertaken on Tuesday 23 May 2017. The traffic study will be measuring current traffic levels – vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle of the greater Waterloo area. Read More…

Initial Waterloo State Significant Precinct Declaration Details

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Following the State Significant Precinct declaration for Waterloo on 18 May 2017 additional information was placed on both the NSW Planning and Environment’s website and on the Communities Plus website. REDWatch provided the following initial unpacking of the declaration announcement to members, sup Read More…

Waterloo Nominated as State Significant Precinct kicks off Master Planning

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Waterloo has been nominated by the NSW Government as a new State Significant Precinct which formally kicks off the master planning of the site. Residents have been advised by staff involved in the master planning that the master planning will commence with a month of capacity building with consultat Read More…

Building a platform of opportunity for Redfern/waterloo redevelopment

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On 2nd March 2017 REDWatch held a session on Health Impacts and redevelopment – what do we need to know? The input to this session was provided by Elizabeth Harris, an Associate Professor in the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of NSW and Director of the Health Equity Rese Read More…

Waterloo relocations put back to mid 2018

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Discussions are still underway about what studies will be be undertaken in the Waterloo Master Plan which is scheduled to start in 2017. Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) have said the Master Plan will determine where on the estate redevelopment will take place. These delays mean LAHC will not kno Read More…