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Project Application for Former Rachel Forster Hospital - MP 09 _0068 Residential and Public Open Space Development
This is the basis for the current Kaymet Application for the Former Rachel Forster Hospital - MP 09 _0068 Residential and Public Open Space. Please note that the Preliminary Application and the Director General's Requirements were issued in 2009. REDWatch will add some documents to this site for the pre-exhibition consultation. The formal exhibition documents will also be subsequently added to the Department of Planning Website link.
- Link to Department of Planning for MP 09 _0068 Former Rachel Forster Hospital Residential and Public Open Space Development
- This is the basis for the current Kaymet Application for the Former Rachel Forster Hospital - MP 09 _0068 Residential and Public Open Space. Please note that the Preliminary Application and the Director General's Requirements were issued in 2009. The formal exhibition documents will also be subsequently added to the Department of Planning Website link. REDWatch will add some documents to its own site below so they are available for pre-exhibition consultation.
- Developer looks for Changes on Rachel Forster Site
- An increase of 9 residential units and 9 car spaces are included in the plans prepared by the new owner of the former Rachael Forster site reports REDWatch's Geoff Turnbull.
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Kaymet - First Floor plan of proposed development
- Rachel Forster Hospital Information Session Leaflet
- This is the text of the letter sent to neighbours of the Rachel Forster Hospital initially for a meeting on 2 June 2012. The initial meeting was rescheduled on a wet day after residents complained that the inside of the Rachel Forster building was not suitable place to hold a public meeting. The meeting was subsequently moved to Redfern Town Hall from 10am-12pm on Saturday 16th June 2012.
- Rachel Forster Information Meeting - 16 June 2012 - Redfern Town Hall 10am-12pm Jun 17, 2012 from 12:00 AM to 02:00 AM — Redfern Town Hall, 73 Pitt St, Redfern,
- You are invited to attend the information drop-in session on Saturday 16 June 2012 between 10am and noon at Redfern Town Hall 73 Pitt Street, Redfern where the community are invited to drop in to meet with the project team to discuss any issues and provide feedback on the proposal.
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Community Flyer on Rachel Forster for 16 June Meeting
- The attached flyer was produced by some residents to publicise the Rachel Forster meeting and to alert people to what they believe to be a low quality development. It is being distributed in the area. File is 607KB PDF.
- Pre Exhibition Consultation (16 June 12) Documents
- The documents below have been supplied for community access prior to the 16 June 2012 consultation. Please note these documents may change before final formal exhibition. The best place to start is Environmental Assessment (May 2012) as it gives an overview of the entire proposal. Supporting reports in the Appendix have not been made available. Some additional information has been made available and for easy of posting and viewing REDWatch has consolidated these into large files of related material - Montages, Plans, Elevations, Sections, Shadow Diagrams and Solar Access. These documents were supplied to REDWatch on 14 June 2012.
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Asbestos Test of Debris from Rachel Forster Nov 2011
- Material thrown from the Rachel Forster Building in 2011 onto neighbouring properties was tested and shown to be brown asbestos as per the test results in this document. One of the major concerns of residents has been the lack of security on the Rachel Forster site and the public health impact of this activity. File is 97Kb PDF.
- Lack of site security major Rachel Forster meeting concerns
- One of the major issues to emerge from the Rachel Forster meeting on 16 June 2012 was the ongoing lack of security on the site. Residents reported that people had often been seen in the abandoned building and it was still possible to access the site. Residents said that they had seen material such as copper being stolen from the building and other activity which had resulted in material including asbestos being thrown from the site. There was concern that as the redevelopment of the site was still some way off that this issue needed to be addressed to ensure these problems did not continue and that the chance of a fire on the site was minimised. The developer said he visited the site weekly and did drive-bys more frequently however local residents said much more needed to be done to secure the site. The facilitator from ABC Planning said the issue would be addressed.
- Rachel Forster site community meeting
- The Redfern community is alive and kicking, and determined to ensure the inevitable redevelopment of the area is as good as it should be. A diverse group of neighbours, with wide-ranging skills and experience, gathered at Redfern Town Hall on the morning of Saturday June 16 to hear the consultants employed by the current developers of the Rachel Forster Hospital site talk about what they are planning to do reports Caroline Pidcock in the South Sydney Herald of July 2012.
- Rachel Forster Hospital site Community drop in sessions Redfern Town Hall - 6th Sept 2016
- Kaymet Corporation, the owners of the Rachel Forster Hospital site at 134-144 Pitt Street in Redfern, is holding two community drop-in sessions to provide information about a proposed modification to the current 2013 Project Approval.
