Tussle over blacksmith heritage

BLACKSMITHS in Eveleigh, Sydney, are campaigning against the State Government’s move to evict them from their workshop. For the past 17 years, Wrought Artworks has had free use of the furnace workshop in Bay Two of the Australian Technology Park. Using ancient blacksmith techniques, metal is melted Read More…

Brewery site plan is heritage threat: locals

THE character and culture of inner-city Chippendale is under threat, say residents, from a proposal by the developer of a giant urban renewal project at Broadway to increase the amount of floor space on the site by 10 per cent writes Wendy Frew Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of Au Read More…

A manicured elephant? Plans for CUB site revealed

Australian musician Chris Gillespie sings a song about an M2 Cockatoo who’s disgusted to find his peaceful bushland home turned into a motorway. Walking home from the latest community information session at the old Carlton United Brewery site on Wednesday July 9, I couldn’t help humming the disgrunt Read More…

Future is bleak for blacksmiths at ATP

Approval of the Redfern Waterloo Authority’s re-development in the Australian Technology Park and North Eveleigh will provide 1,260 new homes for the South Sydney area, but already it has forced some of the existing residents out of their places of business writes Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydn Read More…

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