REDWatch

The Eveleigh railway workshops site, which will face development with no heritage protection once it moves under the control of the new Redfern-Waterloo Authority, has been described as “an industrial icon for NSW and Australia”. Read More…

The Redfern-Waterloo Authority Bill gives one minister immense power, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. Read More…

The State Government’s plans to rejuvenate the troubled inner-city suburbs reveal a broader agenda to strip planning powers from local councils in specific areas or along corridors that it thinks need renewal.
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History will be swept aside in one of Sydney’s oldest areas to clear the way for the massive remaking of 340 hectares of land covering four suburbs under NSW Government plans.
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One of the many things to emerge from the confidential government papers is the financial troubles of the taxpayer-funded experiment, Australian Technology Park. Read More…

A powerful new State Government authority will take control of Aboriginal lands on the “Block” at Redfern for at least 20 years as part of a huge redevelopment plan aimed at fixing social ills and lifting the area’s property prices. Read More…

Redfern is to become the new North Sydney to take pressure off an overcrowded CBD, according to the NSW Government’s grand plan for the area.
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One reason for the secret plan for Redfern is money. The cabinet papers say that the market value of developments in the area is almost $5 billion and almost one third of the land is owned by the Government. Read More…

The residents of Redfern and Waterloo have only half the amount of open space as other inner-city suburbs. But by the time a secret government plan for redevelopment is finished, they will have less than a quarter – because the existing population will have doubled. Read More…

The distinctive high-rise public housing towers of Redfern and Waterloo could be pulled down under a $540 million plan that allows private developers to profit from government land. Read More…