REDWatch on Council’s Draft Waterloo South Submission

REDWatch wrote to Councillors of the City of Sydney regarding the draft submission being considered by Council Committee on 4 April 2022. Prior to this being considered by the Council meeting of 11 April 2022, council officers responded to the issues raised. REDWatch responded again to Councillors o Read More…

Draft Council Submission: Waterloo South proposal is 10% bigger and this is not being disclosed

The City of Sydney Council have produced a Draft submission on the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. The draft is on the Council website among papers to go to the
Transport, Heritage, Environment and Planning Committee on Monday 4 April 2022. It would then be dealt with at the Central Sydney Plann Read More…

Vigilanti Waterloo South Planning Proposal Presentation

Eddie Ma and his team at Vigilanti has been working with public housing tenants sharing his Architectural expertise during the Waterloo South consultations. Eddie has reviewed the planning proposal documents published by DPIE and prepared a summary of his findings from the documents in simple English with graphics so the community has all the information… Read More…

Waterloo South Redevelopment: Unpacking the Planning Proposal

This presentation was given on 17 March 2022 at Counterpoint Community Services as part of Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal Capacity Building. This session explains that the Planning Proposal is setting the rules for developers and LAHC to follow in preparing their detailed proposal and Development Applications. This presentation starts with the proposed planning controls rather… Read More…

Planning Proposal Authority Presentation on Waterloo South

This presentation was made to the Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board’s Waterloo Redevelopment Group on 16 March 2022. This presentation was made by representatives from a section of the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) that is acting in Council’s stead as the Planning Proposal Authority for the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. This presentation is… Read More…

Unpacking Housing Mix in the Waterloo South Planning Proposal

The housing mix materials for the consultation (website, information boards and brochure) explain housing mix based on the number of units or front doors prior to any of the possible 10% floorspace increase from design excellence. The planning proposal itself provides figures by both housing units a Read More…

Waterloo Redevelopment – How did we get here?

This is the PowerPoint presentation in PDF format from a presentation given by Geoffrey Turnbull from REDWatch on Wednesday 9 March 2022 for Counterpoint Community Services’ Waterloo (South) Exhibition Planning Proposal Capacity Building. The recording of this presentation and the workshop outcomes will be placed on the Counterpoint Community Services website. The presentation looks at… Read More…

Building heights in the Waterloo South Planning Proposal

Height of buildings is basic to understanding a planning proposal. This planning proposal makes understanding height difficult by dealing with it in a number of ways. Also height maps in the documents do not always agree. Here REDWatch unpacks the Height of buildings in the Waterloo South planning p Read More…