Bold vision for technology park blurred in a haze of debt – 29.11.2004
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…
Fixing the Block: $27m development planned – 29.11.2004
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…
Grand plan to transform suburbs into a new North Sydney – 29.11.2004
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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Maximising market value the main game – 29.11.2004
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…
Open space to get tighter – 29.11.2004
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…
Towers demolished as aid to social levelling – 29.11.2004
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…
Major plan to redevelop Redfern – 29.11.2004
The NSW Government has a secret $5 billion plan to redevelop Redfern by seizing control of Aboriginal housing on the Block and letting developers take over two-thirds of the area’s public housing estates. Read More…
Revealed: how Redfern will be reborn – 29.11.2004
The State Government has a $5 billion plan to redevelop Redfern and the surrounding suburbs that involves seizing control of Aboriginal housing on the Block and letting private developers take over two-thirds of the area’s public housing estates. Read More…
Block talks under way – 04.11.2004
A week after announcing the creation of a powerful new Redfern/Waterloo authority, Energy Minister Frank Sartor begins talks with community groups.
OURpark Proposal for Redfern Oval
This article was published in the October 2004 edition of the South Sydney Herald. Written by Ian Thompson from Open Up Redfern Park (OUR Park), it describes the formation of this group and their push for the village green option for redevelopment of Redfern Oval. Download ยป