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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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May 2008 RWA Update - PDF Version
- This is a PDF version of the May 2008 RWA Update which deals with the North Eveleigh Concept Plan. PLEASE NOTE: The detail on the map in the middle of this Update is in low detail to make the electronic version file size manageable. To obtain greater detail please obtain the printed version from the RWA. The File is 861 Kb PDF.
- May 2008 – RWA Update – Text Version
- DESTINATION EVELEIGH - $1.3 billion transformation over 10 years / North Eveleigh Concept Plan / Community Information Sessions for Concept Plan / North Eveleigh Rail Yard Site: Planning the future / ATP: New buildings and jobs / Eveleigh Community Markets / Redfern Station Upgrade and Pedestrian Bridge / Employment model links jobs to growth / Need Assistance?
- DRAFT BLUEPRINT FOR NORTH EVELEIGH RELEASED
- Minister for Planning and Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor today previewed draft plans that will help deliver an upgrade to Redfern Station and new affordable housing to the area reports this media release from Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Planning and the Arts Frank Sartor.
- Movement at the station to ease squeeze
- A $550 MILLION redevelopment of the old Redfern railway workshops will include a 16-storey block of flats just 100 metres from the troubled area of The Block reports Frank Walker in the Sun Herald of April 27, 2008.
- Black & White .Irene Doutney A Green Government
- REDFERN resident Irene Doutney has spent her life fighting for Sydney's less fortunate. Now the veteran aid worker and volunteer has turned her hand to politics, aiming to become the second Greens councillor on Sydney Council come September's election reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 23rd April 2008..
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North Eveleigh Concept Plan DGRs (with OCR text overlay)
- This is the copy of the Director General's requirements for RWA's North Eveleigh Concept Plan Application. We have overlayed text from OCR (Optical Character recognition). OCR can be inaccurate so please check any text copied against the scanned document to ensure there are no OCR errors in the text you are selecting. By creating an OCR version the text in the DGRs can be found by search engines such as Google which is not possible with a scanned version as is placed on the Department of Planning's website. File is 863KB PDF.
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North Eveleigh Concept Plan - Preliminary Environmental Assessment
- This is the PDF of the "North Eveleigh Concept Plan Part 3A Major Project Application Preliminary Environmental Assessment Submitted to the department of Planning Prepared by the Redfern Waterloo Authority January 2008". The document includes the "Preliminary Heritage Assessment North Eveleigh Concept Plan for Redfern Waterloo Authority by Weir + Phillips December 2007" and a Statement of Site Suitability from WSP Environmental of November 2007. File is 3.4 MB PDF Text.
- RWIU 4 Apr 2008
- In this Update: North Eveleigh DGRs Issued – will be on DoP Website soon / RWA provides information on “Dry” Alcohol Support Service for Redfern Waterloo / Settlement Neighbourhood Centre seeks new Executive Officer / Sustainable Sydney 2030 and Redfern Waterloo / Redfern Waterloo Census Statistics for 2006 / The CoS study “Redfern Business Precinct – Towards the Future” / ATP Function Noise Complaints / Souths League’s Club DAs / RWA Staff Changes / RWA DA on Exhibition / Woolworths Stores Comparisons for Inner City / Chippendale News - Balfour Street Park – Frasers – History Week / Find a Bike Route / REDWatch Website Update / Housing NSW – Future Directions for Tenant Participation or Not? / Good Neighbourhood BBQs / Sydney Electorate ‘2020 Summit’ - Saturday 5 April 2008 / Waterloo Incinerator coming down & Green Square Town Centre Public Domain Exhibition – Until 13th April 2008 / What the Indigenous Land Council (ILC) is doing in Redfern – 16th April 2008 / “The Coloured Digger” March Ecumenical Service and exhibition – 25th April 2008 / Inquiry into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage – Submissions until Wednesday 30th April 2008 / In the Media / South Sydney Herald / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations
- Sydney University plans to expand
- The University of Sydney may well be the best and biggest in town, although it should be known that it has plans to grow even bigger. With its current landmass large enough to be deemed its own suburb, Sydney Uni has, for some time, been vying for the area currently occupied by the tiny and unsung suburb of Darlington reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of April 2008.
- Greens candidate: Irene Doutney
- Council elections will be held in September and the Greens are first to preselect candidates (Labor will announce candidates following its State Conference in early May). Chris Harris is the Greens Lord Mayoral candidate, with Irene Doutney number two on the ticket reports Andrew Collis in the South Sydney Herald of April 2008.
- Help on the way for Pemulwuy?
- The Aboriginal Housing Company wants the State Government to waive $180,000 in fees for its Pemulwuy Project for The Block, as the cash-strapped company edges closer to exhibiting what it said is a model for affordable housing reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of April 2008.
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References to Redfern Waterloo Area in Sustainable Sydney 2030
- This document has been complied from the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney 2030 Draft Plan. This compilation is designed to provide those with an interest in Redfern Waterloo with information about specific references to the area in the Sydney 2030 draft documents. Key localities are in bold. MS Word 210Kb.
- RWIU 17 Mar 2008
- In this Update: RWA Built Environment Update / CarriageWorks – Continuation of Hours DA until 18th March 2008 / Frasers Reworking Concept Plan for CUB Broadway Site / CoS Redfern Business Precinct Survey – Survey return by Friday 28th March / Elizabeth Street Land and Housing Corporation DA – Exhibition Closes 24th March 2008 / RWA DAs on Exhibition / What’s new on the RWA Website / The RWA’s State Plan Objectives – What would you have chosen? / Waterloo Green – Minister stickers Graffiti / South Sydney Interagency Meets / First Round of Local Action Plan Matching Grants / City Action on Homelessness / Redfern Legal Centre helping young tenants / In Living Memory – Photographs from the Aborigines Welfare Board / Living in Harmony - 8 March 2008 – 30 April 2008 / City South Community Forum – Monday 17th March 2008 / Good Service mob at Redfern Community Centre - Tuesday 18 March 2008 9.30am-3.30pm / Screening of “Waterloo” with Tom Zubrycki – Thursday 20th March 1pm at The Factory / HOPE VI and Chicago’s Public Housing ‘Transformation’ - Thursday 27th March 2008 / Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage (Inquiry) – Submissions extended to 31st March 2008 / Mind Ya Arts Showcase – Friday 4th April 2008 / Local Heroes – Volunteer Awards – Nominations until 7th April 2008 / Dr Judith Stubbs at Waterloo Gathering – Time to Talk – 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Thursday 10th April 2008 / CoS Grant Applications – Close Monday 21 April 2008 / Let's Talk Business - Seminar Series for small and medium sized businesses / Good Neighbourhood BBQs / In the Media / South Sydney Herald March 2008 / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations
- Frasers Broadway - CCCG Update 17 March 2008
- The following New Alert on Frasers Broadway Development was issued by the Combined Chippendale Community Groups on 17th March 2008. The update reports on a meeting between some residents and Frasers over proposed changes to what Frasers propose for the former CUB site.
- Have You Heard - The Fast News March 2008
- Trevor Davies in Have You Heard – The fast News in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008 has reported on a number of Redfern Waterloo items which we have reported below:
- RWIU 21 Feb 2008
- In this Update: Redfern Community Health Centre Plans on Public Exhibition – Until 6th March 2008 / Sydney University Major Project to Consolidate Abercrombie Street Precinct / Robert Domm meets Darlington Businesses over RWA Plans / Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Inquiry Submissions – still being received until Friday 29th February 2008 / The RWA Submission to the Inquiry into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage / Review and Evaluation of the progress of the Human Services Plan Phase One / Aboriginal Housing Company asked by DoP for $60,000 to assess Concept Plan / Planning for Dry Alcohol Facility for Aboriginal Men in Redfern is well advanced / Waterloo Green Safety still a problem in spite of Action plan / Supervised Accommodation can fix the Mental Health Crisis / Heritage Office changes cause concern / Redfern Residents for Reconciliation / Housing Community Assistance Programme (HCAP) Activities for 2008 / Village Bus timetable for new Redfern to Woolloomooloo Service / In the Media / After Sorry - Where to for Aboriginal Rights? - Monday 25th February, Redfern Community Centre, 6pm / Redfern Street - Mum Shirl Memorial Rededication and Decorative Lighting Launch – Wednesday 27 February 2008 7pm / Eveleigh Pocket Park Renewal - Community Celebration - Saturday 1 March 2008, 11.00am at Pemulwuy Park / REDWatch Meeting – 5th March 2008 6pm The Factory / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations
- RWA Submission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage - OCR Text Version
- IMPORTANT NOTE - This is an OCR Version of RWA submission to the Inquiry into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage. This version is to enable people to electronically search the submission which is impossible in its original form. As this text version is produced by OCR, it is possible that it contains some errors. REDWatch can not guarantee it is 100% accurate. If you wish to use the OCR text you must check the OCR version against the original scan copy of the submission to satisfy yourself the OCR text is correct.
- RWIU 6 Feb 2008
- In this Update: Happy New Year – The Turnbull Family of Redfern is back! / REDWatch Meeting - 6 February 2008 6pm The Factory / REDWatch Submission to Inquiry into Overcoming Aboriginal Disadvantage / Eveleigh’s Large Erecting Shop - Alive and Active / RWA sell Rachael Forster Hospital for $11.5 million / Proposed CoS - Rabbitohs Redfern Oval Agreement – Exhibition until 8 February 2008 / ILC lodge School Site Concept Plan Modification / Department of Arts pays CarriageWorks $1m for RWA Delay / Housing NSW Waterloo Green Statement upsets residents / Housing NSW starts work on Walker and Philip Streets Project / RWA Annual Report: not making information easily accessible / Questions over RWA Grants / AHC Optimism over Pemulwuy Project / Federal Parliament Convergence, Apology and Local Activities / Frasers get CUB DGRs for Remediation & Transitional Works / Erskineville Supermarket DA Campaign / Village to Village Shuttle Bus Expansion to Woolloomooloo / ISRCSD’s Inner Voice looks at the DoH Human Service Accord / 2006 Census figures now in CoS Community Profile / CoS 2030 Emerging Directions Report / RWA and REDWatch Websites Summer Holiday cleanup / RWA’s December 2007 Update / South Sydney Herald February 2008 / In the Media / Souths in the News / Exodus Centre Redfern Graduation / Connect Redfern - Updated Children & Family Lists / Vodafone Foundation Australia “Volunteers” Grant / Easy Cooking on a Budget – Starts 20th February 2008 / Have your say – Summary of Current Consultations.
- Rachel Forster site sold to highest bidder
- The former Rachel Forster Hospital at Redfern has been sold at the end of last year, following Planning Minister Frank Sartor’s approval of a concept plan for the $70 million residential redevelopment reports Candice Chung in the South Sydney Herald of February 2008.
- REDWatch Submission - NSW Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Inquiry
- This is the text of the REDWatch Submission to the NSW Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues Inquiry into Closing the Gap – Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage made on 31st January 2008. This submission requests the Inquiry under its terms of reference to Inquire into the implementation of its earlier recommendations from its 2004 Inquiry into Redfern and Waterloo which the NSW Government said had been taken into account in their decisions to establish the Redfern Waterloo Authority and other decisions.
