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North Eveleigh Major Project Application by RWA 2008

In January 2008 the Redfern Waterloo Authority submitted their Major Project Application for the Redevelopment for residential, commercial, retail and cultural uses of North Eveleigh. On March 13 2008 the Minister for Planning declared the proposal to be a major project under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Major Project Application - MP 08_0015
A Major Project Application was lodged by the RWA in January 2008 with the Department of Planning for the Redevelopment for residential, commercial, retail and cultural uses of North Eveleigh. On March 13 2008 the Minister for Planning declared the proposal to be a major project under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and authorised a Concept Plan to be submitted. The Director-General’s Requirements were issued on 17th March 2008 and project was added to the public register on 7th April 2008. On May 1 2008 the Concept Plan went on Public Exhibition until June 12 2008. On 7th October 2008 the Department of Planning posted the RWA's response to the exhibition comments and the resulting proposed modifications in their Preferred project report. The Preferred Project report will now be assessed by the Department who will make a determination on the project. The details of the DoP listing and link to documents on 7th October is below:
File North Eveleigh Concept Plan - Preliminary Environmental Assessment
This is the PDF of the "North Eveleigh Concept Plan Part 3A Major Project Application Preliminary Environmental Assessment Submitted to the department of Planning Prepared by the Redfern Waterloo Authority January 2008". The document includes the "Preliminary Heritage Assessment North Eveleigh Concept Plan for Redfern Waterloo Authority by Weir + Phillips December 2007" and a Statement of Site Suitability from WSP Environmental of November 2007. File is 3.4 MB PDF Text.
File Map of Preliminary Proposed Development for North Eveleigh
The maps that appears in the Preliminary Concept Plan have been reduced in size to make the document size electronically manageable. As a result the detail on the maps is blurred and the Colour in the Legend and the map do not match. We have pointed these problems out to the RWA and they have supplied us with a higher resolution version of the maps on pages 20 and 21 of their submission (NOTE PDF File is 4.7MB). Please note that the Preliminary Concept Plan is indicative of what the RWA were planning in January 2008 and their final Concept Plan which has to address the items raised in the Director Generals Requirements may differ from what is set out in this Preliminary Concept Plan.
File North Eveleigh Concept Plan DGRs (with OCR text overlay)
This is the copy of the Director General's requirements for RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan Application. We have overlayed text from OCR (Optical Character recognition). OCR can be inaccurate so please check any text copied against the scanned document to ensure there are no OCR errors in the text you are selecting. By creating an OCR version the text in the DGRs can be found by search engines such as Google which is not possible with a scanned version as is placed on the Department of Planning's website. File is 863KB PDF.
RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Exhibition Documents - May 2008
The RWA Concept Plan for North Eveleigh has a number of components. It is not our Intention to put all documents on the REDWatch website. The documents should remain on the RWA or Department of Planning's Websites after exhibition for reference. REDWatch has downloaded these documents should they be required in the future.
File RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Environment Assessment - Low Resolution
This is the RWA North Eveleigh concept Plan without Appendices. A High resolution version and the Appendices can be downloaded from www.redfernwaterloo.com.au. This document is 4.2 MB PDF.
Affordable Housing and the RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan May 2008
This document is a compilation of references on the RWA’s North Eveleigh Concept Plan referring to Affordable Housing. The list has been prepared by searching all documents for the term “affordable” in relation to housing. It includes the documents on exhibition as well as the Minister’s media statement, the RWA newsletter and the RWA evidence on affordable housing to the Inquiry into Indigenous Disadvantage. It is intended as an easy reference document for those with an interest in Affordable housing who do not have time to go through all the RWA documents associated with the North Eveleigh Concept Plan. It should be noted that the RWA Affordable Housing Contributions Plan 2006 avoided all questions about how affordable housing would be delivered by saying these would be handled in the Redfern-Waterloo Affordable Housing Program. No such programme has gone on exhibition or been released by the RWA and yet they are now making announcements which should be based on such a document. The following extracts were compiled by Geoff Turnbull for REDWatch 17 May 2008.
North Eveleigh Concept Plan Community Comments
This section of the site has been set up to allow community feedback on the RWA Concept Plan for North Eveleigh in May 2008. Posts will be monitored and REDWatch reserves the right to edit or remove any posts which are inappropriate, off topic or which may defame - Please think before you type! We have set this up so you can post without being registered on the site but we would still like you to put your name and your street name to posts. Do this at the end of the post and keep the name field blank. If you type in the name field the site will try and match you up with a registered user.
File Macdonaldtown Resident Leaflet on RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan
This is the leaflet being distributed by some Macdonaldtown residents about the North Eveleigh Concept Plan on exhibition until 12 June 2008. File is 40Kb PDF.
National Trust of Australia (NSW) Statement on North Eveleigh
The following Statement was issued by The National Trust of Australia (NSW) concerning the RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan for the REDWatch submission writing BBQ on Saturday 31st May 2008.
File RWA BEP 1 Traffic Study
This is a copy of the September 2006 "Preliminary Traffic and Transport Strategy for Draft Built Environment Plan (Stage 1)". In meeting with Parsons Brinckerhoff and the RWA to clarify traffic issues in the "Traffic and Transport Impact Assessment North Eveleigh Development" residents were advised that many of the issues raised had been dealt with in the BEP 1. The RWA subsequently made available a printed copy of the report which we have scanned and added an OCR overlay. A text PDF version of the report has been requested and if made available we will replace the scanned file with the original PDF. As this is an OCR version any text extracted from the report must be checked for errors against the underlying scanned copy before use. The BEP report contains figures for some of the key intersections and queue lengths which have not been included in the final report. Please note however that these are only indicative as the final report is based on later projections. REDWatch has requested that the traffic intersection movements for all intersections as well as the queue lengths from the new study be made available with the RWA promised Q&As not yet released. (File is OCR on Scan PDF 3.9 MB)
File Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater! - Submission on Heritage concerns by Brian Dunnett
This is submission deals with some of the railway heritage aspects of the RWAs North Eveleigh Concept Plan. It has been put together by Brian Dunnett who is an ex worker at Eveleigh. Brian has a M.A. in Leisure and Tourism Research and has been involved with the Trains Of Treasure Exhibition Committee. (File is PDF 761 KB)
REDWatch North Eveleigh Concept Plan Submission - General
REDWatch's submission on the RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan in June 2008 was made in two parts. This is the General Submission excluding traffic issues.
REDWatch North Eveleigh Concept Plan Submission - Traffic
REDWatch's submission on the RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan in June 2008 was made in two parts. This is the Traffic Impact Statement Submission.
City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh
This is the text of the City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh. This document has been made using Optical Character Recognition to make the City Councils submission more available.
Submission on North Eveleigh from Bruce Lay
This submission has been prepared from a resident’s perspective and from a professional planning perspective. Bruce is an architect, planner and a heritage consultant.
Friends of Eveleigh Submission on North Eveleigh Concept Plan
This is the text of the Friends of Eveleigh Submission on the North Eveleigh Concept Plan.
BikeSydney Submission regarding The North Eveleigh Concept Plan
This submission provides comment from BikeSydney on the North Eveleigh Concept Plan.
File NCOSS Submission on North Eveleigh
This is NCOSS's submission on the North Eveleigh Concept Plan with reference to Affordable Housing. File is 73 KB PDF
File City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh
This is the City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh. This document is a scan copy with an Optical Character Recognition overlay. This is done to fasciliate searching of the document. If you plan to copy sections of the text from this document please check the text against the scan to ensure there are no recognition errors. File is 1 MB PDF.
File City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh - Attachment
This is the Attachment table to the City Of Sydney Submission on North Eveleigh. This document is a scan copy with an Optical Character Recognition overlay. This is done to facilitate searching of the document. If you plan to copy sections of the text from this document please check the text against the scan to ensure there are no recognition errors. File is 3 MB PDF.
Anne Harrison Submission on North Eveleigh Concept Plan
This is a copy of the submission by Anne Harrison on the RWA's north Eveleigh Concept Plan.
Lord Mayor Letter to Residents about North Eveleigh
This letter was distributed in the lead up to the Saturday, 26 July 2pm meeting at CarriageWorks Track 8 about the proposed meeting and the City's concerns about the RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan.
What next for North Eveleigh?
This item from CLOVER'S eNEWS of Friday 1 August 2008 - No. 408 follows up from the Community Forum of 26th july 2008.
Battle Stations for North Eveleigh
This article by Sunanda Creagh in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008 deals with the range of issues surrounding the redevelopment of North Eveleigh.
RWA Letter to Editor on North Eveleigh & ATP Blacksmith - August 4th 2008
This letter was submitted by Robert Domm to the Sydney Morning Herald in response to the SMH's "Battle Stations for North Eveleigh" on August 2 and Brian Dunnett's letter "Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past". In the letter the RWA seeks to address "some of inaccurate commentary about rail heritage that is currently occurring".
Brian Dunnett Replies to Robert Domm on North Eveleigh
Below are some comments from Brian Dunnett on a letter that is currently on the Redwatch site from Robert Domm in reply to an article that has been written in response to the SMH's "Battle Stations for North Eveleigh" on August 2 and Brian Dunnett's letter "Ditching Eveleigh agreement robs the future by discounting the past" that was published in the SMH on the 4th August.
File Golden Grove St access case - Stapleton Transport
This is a copy of the advice from Stapleton Transport and Planning Pty Ltd to Bruce Lay that supports the western entry to the North Eveleigh site being at Golden Grove Street. This report follows Minister Sartor's indication at the walk around that he would consider workable proposals for entry from Golden Grove street or Forbes Street to the site. File is PDF 69KB.
File Bruce and Sarah Lay Letter to Kristina Keneally
This is a copy of a letter written by Bruce & Sarah Lay in Wilson Street Darlington to Minister Kristina Keneally about two of the issues raised in the walk around of North Eveleigh with Minister Sartor. A letter in similar form has also been sent to Carmel Tebbitt. The views in the letters are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of REDWatch and we provide it here to encourage discussion and debate on the issues. File is PDF 73 KB.
RWA’s North Eveleigh Site Heritage Interpretation Strategy
The RWA’s North Eveleigh Concept Plan Preferred Project Report of September 2008 includes a Heritage Interpretation which the Executive Summary describes in the following terms: “In addition to the existing requirements for heritage protection, the Statement of Commitments has been amended to require proponents to develop Interpretation Strategies in accordance with the Interpretation Strategy Guidelines specifically developed for the site. This will ensure an integrated heritage interpretation which best reflects the site’s history.” The full text of the Heritage Interpretation Strategy is provided below.
RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Proposed Changes September 2008
The RWA has submitted to Department of Planning its responses to submissions received during the exhibition of their North Eveleigh Concept Plan in May and June 2008. The RWA’s has also submitted its modifications to the Concept Plan in their Preferred Project Report. This document and its appendices including responses to submissions received are now on the Department of Planning’s website. Below we have provided from the RWA documents an outline of the changes.
File RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Preferred Project Report - Sept 2008
This is the RWA North Eveleigh Concept Plan Preferred Project Report (without Appendices). The full set of documents for the Preferred Project can be downloaded from www.planning.nsw.gov.au/asp/08_0015.asp . This document is 608 KB PDF.
Bruce Lay request for Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel
The following letter was put together by three residents involved in the walk around of the North Eveleigh site with Minister Sartor. This letter was sent by Bruce Lay to Minister Keneally in reaction to problems in the RWA's Prefered Project Report. The letter requests the Minister to establish an Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel to investigate the issues.
Minister Approves North Eveleigh Concept Plan
The Minister for Planning and Redfern Waterloo, Kristina Keneally, today announced she has approved a concept plan for the redevelopment of the historic former Eveleigh Railway Yards site in Redfern reports this news release of 30th January 2009 from the Minister's office.
Green light for rail yard high-rises
THE State Government is expected to release up to 10 hectares of land to the commercial and residential property market within months, having approved a plan to convert heritage buildings at Redfern's North Eveleigh into high-rise towers reports Wendy Frew the Sydney Morning Herald's Urban Affairs Reporter on January 31, 2009.
File North Eveleigh Major Project - Director General's Report
This is the Department of Plannings Director General's Report (PDF 622.3 KB) of November 2008 on the Departments assessment of the RWA's North Eveleigh Major Project 08_015. Also see the Minister's Instrument of Approval 1.027 MB – 16 December 2008.
File North Eveleigh Major Project - Minister's Instrument of Approval
This is the Minister's Instrument of Approval (PDF 1.3 MB) of 16 December 2008 for the RWA's North Eveleigh Major Project 08_015. To faciliate searching we have made an OCR overlay please check any text against the underlying scan of the Minister's approval for accuracy. Also see the Department of Plannings Director General's Report of November 2008.
Redfern is ‘the new Stalingrad’
Locals are calling it ‘Stalingrad’ – the concept plan now approved by the Department of Planning to drive the development of the old Eveleigh railyards along Wilson Street between Redfern and Newtown reports Michael Gormly in City News of 19 February 2009.
File RailCorp Tender Map for Demolition of Boilermakers Shop, Carriage Shop Extension and Stores Buildings at North Eveleigh
On 6 April 2009 Railcorp advertised for tenders for the "Demolition of Carriage Shop Extension and Stores Buildings (1-4) Including removal of Hazardous Materials at Eveleigh Rail Yards RFT ID 09/08027". On their tenders page it is advised that " RailCorp requires an experienced demolition Contractor for the Hazardous Materials removal and Demolition of Carriage Shop Extension and Stores Buildings (1-4) at North Eveleigh Rail Yards. Work involves the demolition and removal of the former Carriage Shop and Stores Buildings (1-4) to slab level and removal of all hazardous materials from the Site (including asbestos containing materials)." This map shows the work proposed by RailCorp. The RWA has advised that a DA will be put on exhibition to obtain approval for the works proposed by the tender. File is MS Word 943kb.
Rail Corp Lodge DA with RWA for North Eveleigh Demolition
RailCorp have lodged a Development Application in regard to the demolition of certain buildings in the North Eveleigh area. Given community interest following the RailCorp tender being advertised without a DA application we are making available the information received from the RWA late Friday 17 April 2009. The DA will be exhibited from 29 April to 20 May 2009.
Trust Action: North Eveleigh
In early 2009, NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally approved the North Eveleigh Concept Plan writes Graham Quint in the National Trust Magazine (NSW) for May – July 2009.
REDWatch Letter Regarding Sydney University & North Eveleigh
The letter below was sent on 24 May 2010 by REDWatch individually to local politicians urging "the state government and Sydney University enter into negotiations to overcome whatever non-financial obstacles exist to the sale of the North Eveleigh site to the University." The letter was sent to Kristina Keneally, Carmel Tebbutt, Ferity Firth, Tanya Plibersek and Clover Moore.