REDWatch Meeting – 27 March - Waterloo Metro’s new plans

This REDWatch meeting will be held at 6 pm on Thursday27^th March 2025 at Counterpoint’s The Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan Street, Waterloo. For those who cannot join the discussion in person you can also join by Zoom http://tinyurl.com/RedwatchMeetingZoom.

REDWatch has had to move its April meeting forward a week so we can get the relevant people from Mirvac / John Holland to present on their new plans for the Waterloo Metro Over Station Development. These plans will increase overshadowing over the Waterloo Park to the east of the Metro.

At the time of the initial plans for the Metro site the developers could treat the area east of Cope Street as residential but since the Waterloo South rezoning this site should now need to be treated as public open space and assessed accordingly.

You can see the Waterloo Second Amending Concept DA_Scoping_Dec24 request on the Planning Portal. The Department of Planning has now issued its study requirements (SEARs) which includes the requirement to: Provide a solar access analysis of the overshadowing impacts of the development within the site, on surrounding properties and public spaces (during summer and winter solstice and spring and autumn equinox) at hourly intervals between 9am and 3pm, when compared to the existing situation and a compliant development (if relevant).

We understand the City Council staff also shares our concern about increased overshadowing of the new public space.

You can see a summary of the changes and the changes in building envelopes proposed on this REDWatch Facebook page and the flyer to promote the meeting here.

There will be no REDWatch meeting on Thursday 3^rd April.