Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
This is the link to the map of City of Sydney Council Development Applications which are currently on exhibition. DA’s under $10m previously dealt with by the earlier Redfern Waterloo Authority are now handled by Council. DA’s over $10m are handled by the Department of Planning. http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Development/DAsOnExhibition/DAExhibitionMAP.asp
Waterloo Landscape Course commences 28th April (running Tuesdays and Wednesdays for ten weeks)
This is a free course for Young People, 16-25 years old, who are interested in horticulture in and increasing their opportunity to get work in this area.
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For many young people all it takes is the right opportunity to get their career and their life back on track Koori Job Ready is a program set up in inner city Sydney to train young Indigenous people to work in the construction industry reports Michael Edwards for ABC’s AM on 4 April 2009. Read More…
Cleveland Street is a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians and Erskineville Road is not much better, locals told Sydney Council at a community meeting on Wednesday reports Kim Shaw for Central on 3 April 2009. Read More…
Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern has had its fair share of negative media: not least of all about riots, drugs and violence. But the community is fed up with its own problems and is taking them into its own hands reports SBS’s Living Black on 30 March 2009. Read More…
“The ibis restaurant” – a corroded, road-dwelling dumpster where urban pests constantly feast, is just one of the eyesores of the Redfern-Waterloo public housing precinct reports Angus Thompson in City News on 19th March 2009. Read More…
In the issue of City News on 12 March, there was an article about the Eveleigh Market, which incorrectly named the market as the ‘Carriage Works Market’ writes Stephanie Zappala in this letter to City News. Read More…
The YMCA is calling for applications from young persons between 12 and 18 years to infom the YMCA on youth issues at the National INdigenous Development Centre (NIDC) in Redfern. File is PDF 296 KB Download: NIDC YAC A3 Poster.pdf »
The City of Sydney is to consider 73 proposals for Alcohol Free Zones (AFZ) from police and local residents across Sydney reports Annette Shailer in The Shout on 27th March 2009. Read More…
IT HAS been a tough time for pubs. Bankers have been pulling the plug on many hotels [including Redfern’s Woolpack] and forcing distressed sales to reap back some of the cash owed reports Carolyn Cummins in the Sydney morning Herald of 28th March 2009. Read More…