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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.
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April 2009 RWA Update - PDF Version
- This is a PDF version of the April 2009 RWA Update issued on 20 April 2009. The File is 1.2MB PDF.
- Frasers Property affirms commitment to CUB site on Broadway [including RWA Contributions]
- In response to reports appearing in today’s (17 April 2009) media in respect of the Frasers Broadway development (the old Carton United Brewery site), Frasers Property makes the following clarifications in its media release of 17 April 2009.
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Modified Affordable Housing Planning Agreement - RWA & Frasers Broadway
- This is the agreement between the RWA and Frasers on Affordable Housing signed 28 November 2008. It provides for payment in 5 installments starting in June 2009. Each of the first four installments are for $6m with an adjusting installment dependendt of the final FSR. Interest is charged on any late payment at 2% above the Bank Bill Rate. nFile is 667Kb Scan PDF.
- RWA - Frasers Modified Affordable Housing Agreement
- The Agreement between the RWA and Frasers on Affordable Housing on 28 November 2008 provides for payment in 5 installments starting in June 2009. Each of the first four installments are for $6m with an adjusting installment dependendt of the final FSR. Interest is charged on any late payment at 2% above the Bank Bill Rate. The link to the agreement is below:
- RWIU 16 April 2009
- In this Update: RWIU and REDWatch Website Changes / AHC Responds to Submissions on Pemulwuy Project / The Eighteen Storey Future for Gibbons Street / ILC / YMCA and the National Indigenous Development Centre (NIDC) / NIDC Youth Advisory Committee Nominations / Sydney University Draft 2020 Masterplan Exhibition – Until 30 June 2009 / RWA under New Management – What is happening? / RailCorp Jump the Gun on North Eveleigh Demolition / ATP-Seven Building Level 2 & 3 Fit Out and Level 5 Plant Installation / Darlington Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Calming Study – issues input by 8 May 2009 / Darlington - Charles Kernan Reserve new Community Garden – Feedback Requested / Renewal and Proposed Expansion of Redfern Waterloo Alcohol Free Zones – Until Thursday 30 April 2009 / Redfern Community Forum Report / The Future of Community Safety in Redfern Waterloo – REDWatch Meeting Thursday 7 May 2009 6pm / Frasers Broadway Development / Nominations for Waterloo and Redfern Volunteer Awards – Close 27th April 2009 / Redfern Waterloo Public Housing gets Maintenance Funding Boost / New Waterloo Residents Groups being formed / “Let’s TALK About Our Community” – Housing NSW - Redfern Waterloo Workshops 18 – 22 May 2009 / Consultation on Memorial Statue of Fr Ted Kennedy and Mum Shirl – 18 April 2009 The Block 1-3pm / ANZAC Day Celebration – 25th April 2009 / City of Sydney Grants / In the Media / South Sydney Herald April 2009 / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations / Coming Events
- Green Loop sets high standard
- The proposed Green Square Town Centre is at the heart of Australia’s largest urban renewal area – right between the CBD and our international airport (although the site is not excessively affected by aircraft noise. Several arterial roads intersect in the area, serviced by a number of cross regional bus routes and there is a modern subway station at that intersection. The site is as close to a blank slate as you will find in any international city writes Jack Barton in the South Sydney Herald of April 2009.
- Opinion: Memories sacrificed on future’s altar
- From my youthful experiences, ‘heritage’ and ‘history’ are antiquated words. Old houses give me the creeps and I am at home in beige, open-plan compact living. Give me the high-rise life writes Angus Thompson in this opinion peice in City News of 11 march 2009.
- Ethical food still not cheap as chips
- Sydney’s newest fresh food markets are a running success but ‘ethically produced’ food remains out of reach for those who need it most reports Adam Black in City news of 11 March 2009.
- Ethical Food
- The City of Sydney Council is developing an Ethical Food Policy to ensure that sustainable, healthy and cruelty-free options are considered and implemented for all catered functions says this media release from City of Sydney Greens Councillor Irene Doutney on 2nd March 2009.
- RWIU 4 March 2009
- In this Redfern Waterloo Issues Update (RWIU): Invitation to REDWatch Meeting with Minister Keneally – Thursday 5 March 2009 6pm / Indigenous Land Corporation Update throws light on YMCA's role in the NIDC / North Eveleigh Concept Approval Issues / RWA Clarification on the Channel 7 Satellite Dishes DA / Redfern – A Musical? / Aboriginal Involvement in the former Eveleigh Railyards / Eveleigh Railway Heritage Update / Will the Community Safety Plan continue in Redfern Waterloo? / Can Council and the State Government work together? / CoS Redfern Waterloo Community Forum – Thursday 19 March 2009 / CoS Darlington Pedestrian, Cycling & Traffic Calming Plan Community Forum – Tuesday 31 March / Amended Plan Approved for Frasers CUB Broadway Site / Fraser’s CUB Site Community Meeting – Wednesday 4th March 2008 6pm / Broadway University Expansion Plans / Moore Theological College Joins in the Area’s Major Project Redevelopments / What’s New at Redfern Park and Oval? / City of Sydney Grants – Now Open / Training Opportunities for Community Workers and Management Committees / NSW Government response to Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW / Weekly Eveleigh Farmers Market kicks off successfully / RWA Approves ATP Subdivision & Henderson Road tree Removal / RWA Adds Community Links to its Website / ATP 2007/2008 Annual Report / Support for the Syron’s “Keeping Place” / Redfern Waterloo in the Media / South Sydney Herald March 2009 / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations
- Have you heard? - The fast news with Trevor Davies – March 2009
- Trevor Davies has reported on a number of items of interest to Redfern Waterloo in his column in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Additional Affordable Housing for Green Square and Ultimo
- Federal Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek MP, recently toured affordable housing in Pyrmont, managed by City West Housing reports the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Kristina Keneally on North Eveleigh.
- The following comments from Member for Heffron and Minister for Redfern Waterloo Kristina Keneally appeared in her advertisement in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- Darlington dudded, again
- A large part of the formerly gracious Victorian suburb of Darlington was first dudded in the post WWII expansion of Sydney University. A large part of it was razed – the town hall was demolished, the public school marooned on the campus, and only recently nicely landscaped writes Bruce Lay in this Opinion article in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
- What next for North Eveleigh?
- The Redfern-Waterloo Authority’s concept plan for the redevelopment of the presently deserted rail-yards at North Eveleigh has been given the tick of approval by the State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. On January 30 Ms Keneally signed off on the plan with the hope that the 10.7-hectare site will be transformed from empty industrial shells into a new commercial precinct and 1,200 new homes with 12 per cent designated for affordable housing reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2009.
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CCCG News Update - 1 March 2009
- This is the 1 March 2009 News Update from the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups. This Issue is in PDF format as it includes pictures from DAs. In adition to an editorial it icludes updates on : 1. Former CUB Site (Frasers Broadway) 2. Notre Dame University misleads local community over future plans - another DA is now on exhibition for 480 students 3. DA for a new College for o/s students - operating in Chippen Street till 10:30pm 4. DA – Uniworld College - plans for 800 overseas high school students 5. DA – Student Accommodation - Regent Street 6. UTS – Masterplan to 2010 - major redevelopment plans on Broadway 7. Traffic works and public domain improvements – Buckland, Meagher and Myrtle 8 Balfour Street North Park 9. Councils Green Network. What about Chippendale? 10. Footpath Maintenance Works – Balfour and Bartley Streets 11. Changes to local planning controls 12. To be part of their Committee - contact communityworkingparty@yahoo.com.au. File is 671Kb PDF.
- Broadway’s blockbuster : Carlton United site green light
- Final approval has been given for the Broadway Carlton United Breweries site project, five years after it was first slated for redevelopment reports Robert Burton Bradley in Central of 25 February 2008..
- Redfern is ‘the new Stalingrad’
- Locals are calling it ‘Stalingrad’ – the concept plan now approved by the Department of Planning to drive the development of the old Eveleigh railyards along Wilson Street between Redfern and Newtown reports Michael Gormly in City News of 19 February 2009.
- Former CUB site gets development tick
- THE New South Wales Government has given the green light to the $1.3 billion redevelopment of Sydney's old Kent Brewery site which has the potential to create 6700 jobs reports AAP on 19 February 2009 in the Australian.
- 1,200 Construction Jobs in Bigger, Greener Development for Carlton United Breweries
- Premier Nathan Rees has announced changes to plans for the Carlton United Breweries site in Chippendale, which will deliver more open space for the local community and extra affordable housing reports this media release from the NSW Premier on 19 February 2009.
