The Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design – CABE UK

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) gave independent advice to help people create better buildings and spaces from 1999 to 2011. Housing NSW has suggested this publication – The Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design as a useful resource in thinking about what makes might make good Urban Design in Redfern and Waterloo.… Read More…

Redfern Nov 2011 Community Design Workshop Report – HNSW Masterplan

The report from the November 2011 Community Design Workshops will be used as one of the inputs to the March 2012 design workshops. Here you can download that report. The ideas generated by the workshops will be used to formulate and refine concepts resulting in preferred concepts which will identify the proposed location for new… Read More…

Waterloo Nov 2011 Community Design Workshop Report – HNSW Masterplan

The report from the November 2011 Community Design Workshops will be used as one of the inputs to the March 2012 design workshops. Here you can download that report. The ideas generated by the workshops will be used to formulate and refine concepts resulting in preferred concepts which will identify the proposed location for new… Read More…

The Block reinvented for new kids, students and artists

Flats for students, a childcare centre and a gallery will replace the dilapidated terraces that characterised the Block in Redfern under revamped plans to develop the site writes Saffron Howden in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 January 2012.

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Pemulwuy Mixed Use Development – Exhibition until 29 Feb 2012

Below is the text of the letter sent on 13 January 2012 by the Department of Planning & Infrastructure to land owners in the vicinity of the Aboriginal Housing Company’s proposed Pemulwuy Project. At the foot of this page we have provided links to the pages where the documents on exhibition will app Read More…

Getting off at Redfern: wheelchair access denied

Over 40,000 passengers per day walk through the turnstiles at Redfern station, but 10 years after Disability Standards for Accessible Pubic Transport were introduced, there is still no access for disabled people at one of Sydney’s busiest train stations reports Jason Marshall in City Hub on 5 Januar Read More…