Community design workshops in November

HNSW’s just-released “Community Engagement Action Plan for the Redfern and Waterloo Preliminary Masterplan” says “each workshop will be a hands-on planning process, in which residents, planners, stakeholders, landowners and others will collaborate on ideas for the preliminary masterplan.”

In trying to get further information for the SSH readers we were told arrangements are not finalised. HNSW is relying on flyers posted to tenants just before events and is not leafleting the broader community which will also be impacted. HNSW has no website for such information and REDWatch is posting details on its website as soon as it finds out about them.

In a recent statement HNSW said: “The total budget for Redfern Waterloo preliminary master plan for the redevelopment of Housing NSW major sites in Redfern Waterloo is $3.355 million including GST. Approximately $750,000 of this was spent in 2010-11, and $2.605 million is expected to be spent in 2011-12.” Is it too much to expect that some of that money could be spent on getting the relevant information to both public and private residents in a timely manner? S

Source: November 2011 South Sydney Herald http://www.southsydneyherald.com.au/