Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
The RWA’s North Eveleigh Concept Plan needed to ensure that no development on North Eveleigh impacted on the proposed dive and underground corridor planned for a new city line. This is the corridor being proposed to be used by the 2010 announced City Relief line. Appendix R to the original North Eve Read More…
The following statement has recently appeared on the Transport NSW Website concerning planning for the Western Express/City Relief line. The text below was taken from the page posted on 17 June 2010. Read More…
Residents in Leamington Avenue near Macdonaldtown station were reeling after a recent leaflet came through their letterboxes headed “Your House may be Resumed, Help Stop It!” It was the first anyone knew that the houses they were buying, selling and renovating may soon be resumed writes Geoff Turnbu Read More…
The following media release from Federal Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and NSW Minister for Housing Frank Terenzini anouced on 7 June 2010 the granting of $3.05 million to create a concept plan for the redevelopment of existing social housing precincts in Redfern and Waterloo. The full text o Read More…
Decorating a playroom, painting a fence, and getting their hands dirty in the garden; these were just some of the tasks involved for a group of Sydney-based CEOs who spent the day at The Shop, Waterloo, a centre for women and children, as part of the CEO Day of Caring, organised by UnitedWay reports Read More…
PUBLIC housing estates in 10 Sydney suburbs will be rejuvenated, old buildings demolished, new roads built and first-home buyers enticed into communities with discounts reports Kirsty Needham Social Affairs Correspondent in the Sydney Morning Herald of 7 June 2010. [The story also announces “$3 mill Read More…
If you are caught in Sydney’s housing squeeze, spare a thought for Gordon and Elaine Pelot-Syron who need a home for around 1,500 seminal Aboriginal artworks, most recently collectively valued at $1.5 million, Michael Gormly reports the latest about Gordon and Elaine Syron’s collection in City News Read More…
The unsigned leaflet below was distributed to residents in Leamington Avenue in early June 2010. It warned residents of State Government Plans which may lead to the resumption of land in Leamington Avenue at MacDonaldtown adjoining North Eveleigh. THe text of the leaflet is below as is a copy of the Read More…
JUST two months after the NSW government spared the heritage suburbs of Pyrmont and Rozelle by dumping the CBD Metro, another historic precinct is under threat from another controversial transport plan reports Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 4 June 2010.
The letter below was sent on 24 May 2010 by REDWatch individually to local politicians urging “the state government and Sydney University enter into negotiations to overcome whatever non-financial obstacles exist to the sale of the North Eveleigh site to the University.” The letter was sent to Krist Read More…