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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- ATP Flyer for EOI Sale Drop in session
- Below is the text of the ATP information sheet available at the drop in session on the EOI to sell the ATP.
- Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop collection at Australian Technology Park to be sold
- The towering machines clustered in a cavernous workshop in Redfern make up one of the world's best preserved yet still functioning blacksmithing workshops reports Rose Powell in the Sydney Morning Herald of January 9 2015.
- REDWatch Comments on C2E Forum and UrbanGrowth Response
- On 9th December 2014 UrbanGrowth C2E held a Thinking and Visioning workshop. Concerns about the process were raised with REDWatch by both those that attended and those that were excluded. REDWatch wrote to the UrbanGrowth NSW Community Engagement Manager responsible for the project (who spoke on community engagement at the forum) setting out our concerns. In response REDWatch received a response from Troy Daly the C2E Programme Director. You can see REDWatch's concerns and what we asked for below as well as the response from UrbanGrowth NSW.
- Australian Technology Park sale: call for expressions of interest
- Australian Technology Park is being sized up for sale as the state government's multimillion-dollar divestment of public property continues apace reports Leesha McKenny the Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of December 8 2014.
- REDWatch Request to Council
- Following the ATP sale anouncement REDWatch requested Council to assess the impact and report back to the community. Below is the text of the REDWatch request.
- ATP Sale Anouncement
- On December 4 2014 the Government announced that UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) would handle an EOI process which closes 30th January 2015 for the sale of the Australian Technology Park. Below are the details of the anouncement and REDWatch's initial response as circulated in its email updates.
- Making the future of social housing fairer and better
- The NSW Government has released a major discussion paper to examine options to deliver improvements to the social housing system on 18 November 2014. Links to the report, media release and other details are provided below. Feedback on the report closes on 20 February 2015
- UrbanGrowth Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program 2014-15 Business Plan
- This text is extracted from a heavily redacted copy of the "UrbanGrowth Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program 2014-15 Business Plan". The document was released under a GIPA Request to the Sydney Morning Herald and was the basis of an article on 27th September 2014 titled "Sydney renewal project at Eveleigh likely to be scaled back". REDWatch has also obtained a copy of the document from UrbabGrowth and have provided a text version of the available text below for easy access.
- USyd Exhibition of CIP Responses - Until 25 August 2014
- The University of Sydney has submitted a Response to Submissions (RtS) report for the University of Sydney's Campus Improvement Program State significant development (SSD) application. This report responds to issues raised in Submissions. This report is open to community comment until August 2014. THis ensures the community has a comment on the University's response in leiu of them not undertaking the consultation requested by the Department in the preperation of the CIP. Below are the details of the exhibition.
- Council Subcommittee to Consider UrbanGrowth MOUs - 22 July 2014
- Council’s Planning and Development Committee on Tuesday 22nd July will be considering Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the City Council and UrbanGrowth NSW. Below are details of the MOUs being coinsidered and some REDWatch comments.
- Central to Eveleigh – Some REDWatch Concerns
- Prior to the June 2014 UrbanGrowth NSW (UG) focus groups REDWatch raised some concerns about the process proposed with UG. Subsequemtly REDWatch produced the document below to place our concerns in the public domain and to make these concerns available to other groups and stakeholders. The paper below seeks to explain these concerns and put them on record.
- Central to Eveleigh Corridor Indicative Development July 2014
- In September 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald obtained a Flythrough of the proposed Central to Eveleigh development dated July 3 2014. The flythrough has been updated from the February 2014 version and new buildings from the Locomotive Workshops have been removed. The bulk of other key RWA recognised Heritage buildings remain missing in the July flythrough. The video currently only appears on the SMH website. This video deals with indicative development precinct by precint so below we have taken stills from the vido so people can look at the indicative development shown for their precint. UrbanGrowth has since indicated at a REDWatch meeting that some testing has been done on the indicative densities and that revisions are being made. UrbanGrowth expects to test possible densities with surrounding communities later in the process. Central to Eveleigh Indicative Development as of February 2014.
- Central to Eveleigh - Common Themes and Issues
- The 2013 Preliminary Consultation Report identified nine key themes from those consltations. We have reproduced these below for easy reference. The June 2014 focus groups captured some of this and added in the ATP into six areas on which they are seeking further comment. Some issues and details from the 2003 themes were not carried through to the June 2014 discussions including Community Participation.
- UrbanGrowth NSW EOI for Urban Design Services May 2014
- On 26 May 2014 UrbanGrowth NSW issued an invitation to submity an EOI for Urban Design Services for Central to Eveligh. Below we have provided some details from the EOI document in the interest of transparency. This is made by optical character recognition of the original documents and while it has been manually checked it may contain some OCR errors.
- Central to Eveleigh Consultation Report Online
- UrbanGrowth's Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal and Transport Program has posted the report of their consultation late last year with community group representatives. You can see this report on the UrbanGrowth website through the link provided below. Below is an email from the new Program Director which summarises the common thesemes in the report. The Central to Eveleigh Urban Renewal Area Baseline Analysis undertaken by UrbanGrowth should be posted in the near future.
- Who Can we trust Now? - Poster from Sirius
- The banner below has been produced by some of those in the Sirius Building. It came to REDWatch with the note that appears below the graphic.
- Millers Point Social Housing Support Minute by the Lord Mayor
- At the City of Sydney Council Meeting of 7 April 2014, Council accepted the recomendations below in the Lord Mayor's Minute to provide support to Millers Point following the NSW Government decision to move out all Millers point public tenants. The Text of the Minute is provided below.
- REDWatch Submission on Sydney Uni "Campus Improvement Program"
- This is the text of the REDWatch submision on Sydney University's Campus Improvement Program (CIP) of April 2014.
- Development corridor a dividing wall
- EVELEIGH: Images of the proposed Central to Eveleigh urban renewal have been broadcast on Channel Nine, concerning residents and protection groups in the area. The images, provided by UrbanGrowth NSW, depict many high-rise buildings built on top of the rail corridor between Central and Redfern train stations as a part of the Urban Renewal and Transport Program reports Victoria Pearson in the April 2014 South Sydney Herald.
- REDWatch Analysis on Millers Point
- REDWatch has kept its members and supporters up to date through its email lists. Below we have drawn some of the material from these emails to provide an overview for a wider grouping of REDWatch's concerns.