Start: 2013-02-07T23:00:00
End: 2013-02-08T01:00:00
Location: The Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan Street Waterloo
Urban Growth Development Corporation is the body that is supposed
to finalise the BEP2 planning controls for the public housing redevelopment and
heritage handle development in North Eveleigh. The change from SMDA to
UrbanGrowth is both a continuation of what was before and is a major change.
Gone are people like Roy Wakelin
King and Julie Parson that the community were used to dealing with. Those in
the planning and administrative functions left behind are now responsible to
Landcom MD Shaun O’Toole who is directly responsible to the Minister while he
is at the old SMDA because that board has been disbanded but Shaun is
responsible to his board when he is at the old Landcom now UrbanGrowth NSW.
Jason Perica the Acting Director Acting Director Planning and Urban Renewal
Urban Growth NSW who continues at the SMDA/UGDC will be attending the REDWatch
Meeting will ensure some continuity.
It is important given
SMDA/UGDC’s role in coming re-developments that we get an understanding of this
complex structure and its implication. Heritage protection across Eveleigh
seems now much more fragmented with clear separations between ATP and UGDC
responsibilities. No progress seems to have been made by the SMDA before the
change in finding a heritage mechanism to bring people together across the
former Eveleigh Railyards, so this is one area of concern.
There has been a lot of activity
on the North Eveleigh site since our last meeting with SMDA/UGDC having two
consultations on parks, Nace Civil Engineering starting Infrastructure Works at
North Eveleigh and City West Housing being announced as the Affordable Housing
developer / provider. Also a lot of remedial work has happened around the CME’s
and Scientific Services Building. There will be an update on this work on
Thursday.
So come along to the first
REDWatch meeting and find out about UrbanGrowth NSW and why Minister Hazzard
described it as Landcom on steroids and find out what it means for Redfern and
Waterloo.