HNSW Preliminary Master Plan
The Preliminary Master Plan is funded by a 2009 Federal Government Affordable Housing Fund Grant and is to be completed by June 2012. While it falls within the Draft BEP2 framework it is not the comprehensive Master Plan referred to within the BEP2. More work will need to be funded to both take the Preliminary Master Plan to a full Master Plan for the area covered in the project and to cover off all the areas in BEP2. REDWatch is posting these documents so they are publicly available electronically in the absence of Housing NSW being able to post them on their own website.
Housing NSW have declined a REDWatch request that the Preliminary Masterplan be made public for community consultation before it is reported to the Federal Government by advising that "the preliminary masterplanning is an internal working document exploring options for Housing and Property Group’s major sites and is in a constant state of development". Housing NSW has also declined REDWatch's request to publicly release the HNSW Preliminary Masterplan progress reports to the Federal Government. Below you can see what REDWatch requested and why and how HNSW have responded. REDWatch wrote to HNSW when it became apparent HNSW had made no provision in their consultation to publicly exhibit their Preliminary Masterplan.
HNSW have chosen a Master Planning topic each month to engage the community. Here are the materials for SEP 2011 - Connections, Shops & Community Services; OCT 2011 - Streets Parks & Open Space; NOV 2011 - Community Design Workshop; JAN 2012 - Building Design; and MAR 2012 - Enquiry by Design (Note Changes have been made in October and November)
On 27 October 2010 the Australian Government through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and Housing NSW (HNSW) signed an agreement under the Housing Affordability Fund (HAF) for the Redfern Waterloo Preliminary Masterplan. Here you will find details of what was covered by the agreement and the HNSW / DFS Project Performance reports submitted to the Federal Government.
At the Planning Expo in August 2011 HNSW provided some information about what was covered in their Preliminary Master Plan. As more information is made available by HNSW about the Master plan we will add it here.
A series of studies will be undertaken as part of the Preliminary Master Plan. Some like those associated with the Draft BEP2 and the Baseline study have already been done. As more studies become available we will post them here. We have also included a compilation document based on HNSW and RWA/SMDA documents setting out what the Master Plan is expected to include.