URBAN RENEWAL
The RWA’s strategies for enhancing
the built environment of Redfern, Waterloo,
Eveleigh and Darlington will concentrate
on the issues of urban design, traffic,
public access, public transport, land use,
affordable housing and urban renewal.
The social and economic revitalisation
of the RWA’s area of operation is
considered a ten year project. The Redfern-Waterloo
Plan, which is intended to outline the strategy
for urban renewal, is therefore being developed
in stages. It is intended to be a living
document, which builds upon its earlier
priorities and strategies, with community
input as an ongoing feature.
Stage One of the Plan, which is expected
to be released for public consultation in
late 2005, will cover the first three years
of the RWA’s operation. A number of
strategic sites, some of which are government
lands no longer fully required for their
earlier purposes, have been identified as
forming the urban renewal focus for Stage
One of the Plan. These sites are:
- Former North Eveleigh Railyards
- South Eveleigh
- Australian Technology Park
- Eveleigh Street Precinct
- Redfern Railway Station Precinct
- Gibbons-Regent Streets Precinct
- Former Redfern Public School
- Former Redfern Police Station and Courthouse
- Former Rachel Forster Hospital
All of these Stage One sites are situated
in an area arcing out from Redfern Station,
which is considered an essential target
for redevelopment/refurbishment to enhance
access, safety and commercial/retail activity.
The Minister for Redfern-Waterloo and the
RWA will undertake the consent authority
role for any developments on strategic sites
and any other sites that may be nominated
in the future. The Redfern-Waterloo Plan
will accordingly support the development
of planning controls for these sites.
The City of Sydney will continue to be
the primary consent authority for other
developments in the RWA’s area of
operation and the City’s planning
controls will continue to apply to its areas
of jurisdiction.
The Minister for Redfern-Waterloo has established
a Ministerial Advisory Committee on the
Built Environment, with a number of community
representatives, to provide advice to the
Minister and the RWA for the purposes of
the Redfern-Waterloo Act 2004. The City
of Sydney and Commonwealth/State agencies
are also represented on the Committee.
Each stage of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan
will be the subject of a proper process
of community consultation prior to its adoption.
Enhancing the built environment of Redfern-Waterloo
is inextricably linked to strategies for
creating local employment, facilitating
enterprise development and producing more
efficient and effective delivery of human
services. For this reason, the Redfern-Waterloo
Plan will tackle all these complex, inter-related
issues in a way designed to ensure that
the local community is a beneficiary of
the process of urban renewal.
This text appeared on 7 October 2005 at http://www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/redfern_waterloo_plan/urban_renewal.htm