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This is a selection of major news items about Redfern Waterloo from various media outlets. The AHC also has a good selection of the stories about the Block in their media news section at http://www.ahc.org.au. You can get up to date news by setting up a Google News alert at http://www.google.com/alerts. News Alerts will not pick up local media and some mainstream media stories which do not appear on a news website, where possible we put these stories on our website to provide wide access to the stories.
$120M Deal to Make Redfern a Media and Employment Hub Wednesday, 28 June 2006
NSW Premier, Morris lemma today announced a landmark agreement to build a new television production centre and commercial offices at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) at Redfern.
Political pub brawl
LORD Mayor Clover Moore has flagged legal action against Planning Minister Frank Sartor over his decision to seize control of development of the former Carlton United Brewery site reports the Daily Telegraph June 28 2006.
Seven plans $120m move
THE Seven Network will move much of its television production to a new $120 million facility to be built in Sydney's Redfern. The Australian June 28, 2006.
Frankly, these are no Sartorial masterpieces
The following three breif items dealing with the CUB site ran in the Alex Mitchell and Kerry-Anne Walsh editied Naked eye in the Sun-Herald of June 26.
Sartor seizes $800m project - 22 June 2006
PLANNING Minister Frank Sartor has seized control of the development of the city's $800 million Carlton and United Brewery site from Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, claiming it had become a "constipated camel" By SIMON BENSON, State Political Reporter Daily Telegraph.
Sartor’s grab for control puts residents in a froth
THE Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, has seized control of Sydney's biggest residential development, saying he would save it from becoming a "constipated camel" not worthy of the city's gateway. Report by Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor SMH 22 June Page 6.
Government and Developers to Bulldoze Sydney’s Heritage - CoS 22 June 2006
Commenting on the State Government’s take over of the Carlton & United Brewery Site (CUB) in Chippendale, Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said; “This is like saving the Rocks all over again. We have heritage buildings which the Government and developers want to bulldoze to put up high rise says a media relaes from the City of Sydney Council.
Are Urban Slums the Price of Labor’s Re-election?
The announcement by Planning Minister Frank Sartor that he is taking over approval authority for the Carlton and United brewery site on Broadway on the same day a plan by Treasurer Michael Costa for unplanned land releases in south-west Sydney is revealed, raises the question of whether new urban slums are to be the price of Labor’s re-election campaign, according to Greens MP Sylvia Hale.
City of Sydney Comment on the Carlton United Brewery site Anouncement
The following Media Statement was issued on 21 june 2006 by City of Sydney Council in response to the Minister's decision to declare the CUB site State Significant.
State takes on beer development - 21 June 2006 AAP
THE New South Wales Government has taken control of the redevelopment of central Sydney's Carlton United Brewery site from the City of Sydney council.
CUB TO BECOME A STATE SIGNIFICANT SITE
Planning Minister Frank Sartor today (21 June 2006) announced he would intervene in the $800 million redevelopment of the Carlton United Brewery site near Central Station, states a media release from his office.
CALL TO ARMS ON MINISTER'S CUB INTERVENTION
The following report on Public Meeting regarding the CUB site and what residents can do to try and stop the CUB site being taken over by Planning Minister sartor is taken from CLOVER'S eNEWS - Friday 16 June 2006 - No. 301
Once-bullied Sartor grows up and becomes a bully
IT'S that dumb-and-dumber feeling you get when someone grabs your hand and makes you slap yourself, hard, in the face. It's how the City of Sydney council must be feeling right now - writes Elizabeth Farrelly on the CUB site in the Sydney Morning Herald June 14, 2006.
Moore and Sartor trade blows over city brewery site
THE Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has sought assurances from the State Government that money raised from the development of the Carlton & United Breweries site on Broadway will be spent on affordable housing in Redfern reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor Sydney Morning Herald June 10, 2006.
URGENT MEETING ON CUB SITE
The City is holding an urgent meeting to discuss events surrounding the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale. Join me at 7.30 pm Thursday 15 June 2006, Medina Executive Sydney Central, 2 Lee Street Sydney (adjacent to Central Station). Update from Clover's E-News No 300 of 10 June 2006.
Slum city fears as Sartor grabs massive project - 9 June 2006
THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city's biggest residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks that will become Sydney's future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.
Minister Steers Government Toward Another Cross City Tunnel Disaster - 9 June 2006
Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP in a Media release of 9 JUne 2006 called on the Minister for Planning to come clean on just how much money the State Government was planning to take from the CUB site, and to give assurances about how this money would be spent.
Intervention threatens Foster's development: Moore
The Lord Mayor of Sydney has accused the New South Wales Government of derailing an agreement over the development of the Carlton and United Breweries site on Broadway reports ABC News 9 June 2006.
Frank Sartors comments on CUB to Adam Spencer on 702 ABC - 9 June 2006
The following is a transcript of Minister Sartor's comments about the CUB site following a discussion about changes to Basix for high rise buildings.
Carlton & United Breweries Site Heritage Under Threat from Minister:
The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute Inc. - an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the RWA, for which Ministrer Sartor is also the Minister, gets the Affordable Housing levy from the CUB Site.
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