Affordable Housing mentions elsewhere on the REDWatch website
This collection is a search of the REDWatch Website for all references to Affordable Housing with the most recent first.
- Letter from City of Sydney to DIPNR - 18 July 2005
- This is a copy of the letter sent by City of Sydney to the director General Department Infrastructure Planning and Natural Resources on 18 July 2005 requesting clarification on the affordable housing contributions under the Redfern Waterloo Authority Act 2005. This letter was attached to the Lord Mayor's reply to Minister Sartor of 2 June 2006. This letter has an OCR text overlay so you can copy text from the letter if required. As this is produced by OCR it may contain some errors so please check the text carefully if you plan to use the text. File is 126 Kb PDF.
- Carlton United Brewery Site
- The former CUB Site is outside the RWA operational area however the legislation which established the RWA laid claim to the affordable housing levy from this site. This resulted in a three way interest in the site between the City of Sydney, the RWA and the owner. In June 2006 the Central Sydney Planning Committee, following a letter for Minister of Planning & Minister for Redfern Waterloo, voted 4 (state Appointees) to 3 (council appointees) for the Minister of Planning to take control of the site.
- 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.
- State Government Action Threatens CUB Site - 2 June 2006
- An eleventh hour grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media statement.
- Sartor slammed over CUB
- SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a multi-million-dollar "cash grab" yesterday by contemplating higher density at Foster's Group's $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney's Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Paddy Manning in The Australian June 03, 2006.
- Looking for Premises in Redfern Waterloo - the South Sydney Community Aid experience
- The sale of the Redfern Public School saw tenants such as South Sydney Community Aid have to look for alternative accommodation in the area. Following they have documented their experience. Their story highlights the problems facing smaller NGO’s delivering human services in Redfern Waterloo in finding and being able to get funding support for suitable accommodation to deliver their services.
- 9 May 2006
- RWA Human Services Update / Update of Local Services Information / Public Housing Tenants Job Disincentives / REDWatch Demands SEPP be withdrawn / In the Media / South Sydney Herald May 2006 / RedWater News now also available on Line / Macdonaldtown Stabling Yards Community Meeting 7.30pm May 10 at Erskineville Town Hall / Sustainable Transport Summit “Routes to Success” 16 May 8am / Tribal Warrior Harbour Cruises / RWA Human Services Taskforces / Reforming Human Services Team - Core Areas of Staff Responsibility
- Kristina Keneally Submission on the RWA BEP
- This is a copy of Kristina Keneally's submission on the BEP
- 3000 homes for elderly - 30 April 2006
- ALMOST 3000 new homes will be built or bought for the elderly under a multi-million dollar State Government plan to address the state's ageing population reports Linda Silmalis in the Sunday Telegraph.
- David Allen's submission on the RWA BEP
- This is a copy of david Allen's submission on the RWA BEP. 25 KB PDF
- Answers to Parliamentary Questions
- The following answers to Parliamentary questions about the RWA have been matched with the questions asked for easier reading.
- South Sydney Greens Submission to RWA BEP
- South Sydney Greens Submission to RWA BEP - PDF 72 KB
- Ben Spies-Butcher's Submission to the RWA BEP
- Ben Spies-Butcher's Submission to the RWA BEP - PDF 17 KB
- Labor Councillors of City of Sydney Submission on RWA BEP
- Labor Councillors of City of Sydney Submission on RWA BEP - PDF 34 KB
- STUCCO Student Housing Cooperative Submission
- This is the STUCCO Student Housing Cooperative Submission to the RWA BEP - PDF 110 KB
- Clover Moore Submission to the RWA BEP
- Clover Moore MP for Bligh's submission to the RWA BEP - PDF 255 KB
- City of Sydney Submission to RWA BEP
- This is the amended City of Sydney Submission to the RWA BEP - PDF 584 KB
- REDWatch Submission to the RWA BEP & SEPP
- This is a text version of REDWatch's Submission on Redfern Waterloo Authority Draft Redfern-Waterloo Built Environment Plan (Stage One) (BEP) and State Environmental Planning Policy (Major Projects) Amendment (Redfern-Waterloo) Policy 2006 (SEPP) to Director General of the NSW Department of Planning and CEO of the Redfern Waterloo Authority
- REDWatch Submission to the RWA BEP
- This is a copy of REDWatch's submission to the RWA BEP. 130 KB PDF
- Redfern plan threatens cultural identity, critics say
- By Sherrill Nixon, Urban Affairs Editor SMH April 15, 2006