Start: 2020-12-30T14:00:00
End: 2020-12-30T14:00:00
Location: The Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan Street Waterloo
The Thursday
6 July meeting will be held at 6pm at the Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan
Street, Waterloo. It will also be on Zoom via https://tinyurl.com/RedwatchZoomMeeting. You can find a
flyer to advertise the meeting at Explorer Street South Eveleigh Rezoning Flyer for 6 July 2023.
The DPE rezoning follows and builds
upon previous plans prepared by LAHC in 2020 which identified three preliminary
concept options. While the design will not be finalised until after the formal
public exhibition expected to occur around September/ October this year, DPE
expects the key elements to include maintaining the existing South Sydney
Rotary Park in its current location (above the Eastern Suburbs Rail line) and
increasing the amount of housing to accommodate a larger, mixed tenure
community on the remaining 1.16 hectares. The adjoining Rowley Street Bridge
Housing properties are not covered by
the site which is accessed from Henderson Road.
It is not known what LAHC has
submitted to DPE as a reference for the rezoning. The only document publicly
available is the Explorer Street Eveleigh Redevelopment
Proposal – Community Information Pack from LAHC’s 2020 options exhibition. REDWatch
suggests that those attending the REDWatch meeting review the information pack contents
as it is not clear what information DPE and LAHC will present to the REDWatch meeting
for feedback.
The Redfern Waterloo Authority in
2010 found that the existing housing on the site was “relatively recent”, “in good
condition and may be retained for some time”(BEP2). In 2020 LAHC proposed to replace
the 46 two story town houses with a mixed development of 430 dwellings of which
120 are proposed to be social housing of a smaller size. The three options
proposed by LAHC were up to 14, 16 and 8 storeys on a site currently zoned to
retain its existing 2 storey height. The RWA’s 2010 Built Environment Plan Two (BEP2)
proposed heights of 4-8 storeys on this site but did not change the controls.
UrbanGrowth took a different approach to the site, building in the potential
future development of operational rail land to the north which potentially overshadows
this site.
As part of the rezoning
investigations, DPE has commissioned WSP (formerly Eltons) to develop its
earlier work from 2020 and to prepare a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) in
relation to the new proposal. In 2020, the SIA team conducted interviews to
explore potential social impacts associated with this development including
with REDWatch. WSP will re-engage with community organisations such as REDWatch
to update the SIA and inform the rezoning proposal. This will be the first SIA
for a public housing site DA in the REDWatch area and we are keen to hear
community input on what should be covered at mail@redwatch.org.au.
This is a
rezoning that will set the height, floor space and other controls for this
site. What then happens on this site will be determined by LAHC and the new government.
Housing Minister Rose Jackson, at the last REDWatch meeting provided the
principles that the new government wish to apply to developments of public
housing land. You can see an account of what she said on the South Sydney
Herald website in the article Minister looks to rework
Waterloo South.
You can learn
more about this site on the Explorer
Street tab of the REDWatch website. The other key sites that currently
contain little information are the Explorer Street sites for LAHC
and DPE.