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Media Articles on Redfern Waterloo
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.
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- SMDA Receives Urban Renewal Brief from Department of Planning
- The SMDA has received its brief for both the Redfern and Waterloo and Granville areas under the State Environment Planning Policy (Urban Renewal) 2010. The briefs set out the areas the SMDA is required by the study to investigate and make recommendations upon.
- Groundswell of support for housing tenants
- The public submission last January by the Redfern-Waterloo Authority of the BEP2 draft plan to redevelop the housing sites in the area has drawn criticism from local groups. Criticism is due partly to the time for consultation being considered too short (four weeks) for the community to fully understand what a project of this scale implies reports Sandra Beeston in the South Sydney Herald of June 2011.
- Ross Smith on why he should be elected to an ALP committee
- The letter below was sent to ALP members when Ross Smith stood in 2011 for the NSW ALP Policy Forum. It outlines some of Ross's involvement and positions in the ALP and more broadly. It provides an insight into the ALP side of Ross's involvements.
- RWA Email Update - 26 May 2011
- In this RWA Update - NEWS: Redfern welcomes a new Minister / Redfern shop front improvement matching grant program / Uniting the community through sport / Artists rev up at Eveleigh Artisans’ Market for charity car rally / Weave Arts Space opening exhibition / Local volunteers recognised / Koori Mail – 20th year celebration / NCIE celebrates its first anniversary - DEVELOPMENT NEWS - Modification - Temporary Gardener's Compound, Australian Technology Park / New Gardener's Compound, Australian Technology Park / Fashion event at the former Clothing Store, North Eveleigh / New way finding signage, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh - WHAT’S ON
- Angry residents demand change to Sydney Uni ‘mega development’
- Sydney University’s plans for a new business school in Darlington are under threat after angry residents issued a host of demands to the institution reports this media release from Residents Acting In Defence of Darlington (RAIDD).
- People push demands rethink on city development plan
- THE Premier, Barry O'Farrell, took office promising to hand planning powers back to the people, and inner Sydney residents are taking him at his word reports Kelsey Munro in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 May 2011.
- REDWatch Joins in Open Letter to NSW Government
- REDWatch has joined with a range of other resident groups in issuing an Open Letter to the NSW Government and the City of Sydney requesting the City Plan be placed on hold. The statement follows a range of concerns raised by residents groups about changes forced on the City of Sydney by the previous NSW Government regarding the planning controls to be exhibited. In Redfern and Waterloo this included the removal of the public housing estates from the planning control of the council. At Ashmore Estate a directive to increase heights and densities well above what council studies had shown viable was given without any supporting planning studies to test the densities proposed. The text of the statement is provided below:
- Comments on Proposed HAF Master Plan Community Engagement
- Housing NSW circulated a Draft Community Engagement Action Plan for the Redfern and Waterloo Masterplan looking for feedback in May. They received some feedback including comments from The Factory and REDWatch. Subsequently there has been a meeting with Housing and we are awaiting a revised draft. HNSW have asked that we not put their document up on the REDWatch website until it is finalised so we are unable to share it with you. What we can do to provide some transparency is to provide make our comments available which will provide some idea of the areas of concern to REDWatch and the Factory. These are provided below.
- Glebe Residents Protest Demolition of Public Housing
- The local residents’ action group "Hands off Glebe" held a protest on May 18 to stop the demolition of public housing in Cowper St, Glebe. The 15 buildings on the Cowper St site have the capacity to house 289 people but the former NSW Labor government decided to sell most of the land to private developers, with the remnant being earmarked for new public and so called affordable housing. The newly-elected Greens MP for Balmain, Jamie Parker, joined and addressed the protest. Workers on the site stopped work for the day in support reports Peter Boyle in Green Left Weekly.
- Sydney Uni Abercrombie Street Campus Plans
- Sydney University has made available its plans for the new Abercrombie Street Business School on their web site while waiting for the Department of Planning to place the documents on formal exhibitions. Darlington locals are encouraged to become familiar with the proposals as there is expected to be only 4 weeks of formal exhibition. The Exhibition is expected to start soon. Below are links to the documents as circulated by Sydney University on 13 May 2011 as well as some information regarding the Sports and Aquatic Expansion Project.
- Urgent support needed to save The Syron's Keeping Place Collection from seizure and auction - 23 May 2011 Deadline
- The Storage at Kennards for the Syron's Keeping Place Collection runs out on 23rd May 2011. If the Syron's can not find somewhere for the collection by then or pay for more storage the Keeping Place collection will be auctioned by Kennards to pay for the storage. An initial period of storage was paid for by the RWA as part of a settlement to move the collection out of the Wilson Street Parcel Shed. Below is a letter from Councillor Irene Doutney who is the spokesperson for the Keeping Place Committee.
- Groundswell coming to Redfern and Waterloo
- A coalition of Redfern and Waterloo non-government agencies has resolved to facilitate an on-going discussion and community empowerment process independent of government reports Michael Davis in City News on 12th May 2011.
- Suburbs go from No-go to Boom Towns
- THEY were once Sydney's crime capitals, ruled by drug lords and violence. Now the same dangerous suburbs have been named in a national report as the city's hot-property suburbs. Homes in "rough and ready" Maroubra, heroin-capital Cabramatta and no-go zone Redfern are now attracting top dollar reports Vikki Campion in The Daily Telegraph on 10 May, 2011.
- Talent breaks out at Weave, Redfern
- WEAVE Arts Centre will be launched at North Eveleigh on May 11 with an inaugural exhibition titled Breakout reports Aimee Scott in Central on 8 May 2011.
- New home for the homeless
- Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, has turned the first sod to ceremoniously begin construction of a new nursing home for homeless older people, in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Redfern reports Stephen Easton on Australian Aging Agenda on 3rd May 2011.
- Transforming the great southern land
- Redfern is on the brink of its biggest change in decades, writes Matthew Moore in the Sydney Morning Herald of 30 April 2011.
- Noisy garden shed at Redfern's ATP deemed "temporary''
- NEIGHBOURS of the Australian Technology Park temporary gardeners’ compound are ecstatic it will finally live up to its “temporary” label now that the application to extend its use for another five years has been withdrawn reports Central on 30 April 2011.
- RWA Email Update - 20 April 2011
- In This RWA Update - NEWS: Bush Tucker pioneer receives award / Domestic & family violence forum / Draft BEP 2 Thank You Barbeques / New chef at Yaama Dhiyaan / Art is a load of rubbish / Family connects with local heritage / Rabbitohs hop along to Easter Eveleigh Market - DEVELOPMENT NEWS - Public exhibition and interpretation of heritage artefacts, Bays 1 & 2 Locomotive Workshop, Australian Technology Park / Internal fit out and additional flues at the Biomedical Building, 1 Central Avenue, Australian Technology Park / Filming in the area bounded by Eveleigh, Vine and Louis Streets, Redfern - WHAT’S ON - Alexandria Community Garden – 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month / Eveleigh Farmers’ Market – every Saturday 8am to 1pm / Eveleigh Artisans’ Market – first Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm
- Questions for New NSW Government
- REDWatch has set out a series of questions in has about NSW Government Policy as it relates to Redfern and Waterloo Issues. The list of questions below were part of an invitation to Premier Barry O'Farrell for himself or one of his relevant Ministers to attend a REDWatch meeting and brief locals about how his Government proposes to do to address a range of Redfern and Waterloo Issues.
- 'Mixed' estates found to break rather than make communities
- Ms Kenworthy's study - along with extensive research by Western Sydney academic Gabrielle Gwyther, published in the recent edition of the journal Urban Policy and Research - challenges 30 years of conventional wisdom. Over the past 10 to 15 years, NSW government policy has been to break up the estates writes Andrew West in the Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April 2011.
