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Waterloo Green in the News
Information about Waterloo Green apears in many news items and other places accross the REDWatch website. Below are the results of a search of news items on the site which may help you to find more information about Waterloo Green. The most recently posted articles should be at the top.
- Clarification by CoS on Future of Community Safety Plans in Redfern Waterloo
- REDWatch has raised concerns about the failure of the CoS to impliment the recomendation from the Evaluation of the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan which calls for Council and the community "to decide what needs to be done from now on”. The Issue was raised at the March 2009 Redfern Waterloo Community Forum. The response below was received from the CoS in response to follow up correspondence to CoS CEO and Deputy Lord Mayor Marcelle Hoff. REDWatch continues to seek discussion between Council and the community about a Redfern Waterloo specific follow up to the Redfern Waterloo Community Safety Plan which Council now considers completed.
- Factory Centre Receives Welcome Makeover
- The Factory Community Centre in Waterloo is celebrating recent upgrades to their 30 year old facilities reports this media relase from the Factory of 9 April 2009.
- $130M bailout helps bandage Housing’s eyesores
- “The ibis restaurant” – a corroded, road-dwelling dumpster where urban pests constantly feast, is just one of the eyesores of the Redfern-Waterloo public housing precinct reports Angus Thompson in City News on 19th March 2009.
- Sewer pipe fix delayed
- ALMOST a year since Central first reported on repair delays and security concerns at Waterloo Green, public housing residents have said things were worse than ever reported Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 7 January 2009.
- What is happening in South Sydney?
- We know South Sydney has always been a happening place, but there is so much going on at the present time, that we have decided to give ISV readers a snapshot on the latest situation. These changes are rolling along and peak at different times so unless you are in the middle of it, it is hard to keep up - that is, until the place suddenly looks different. Driving down Regent Street today, suddenly there is a set of metal spikes sticking up from a surrounding fence - it can't be left over barricading from World Youth Day, so it must be a sculpture that must have been in a plan somewhere - but who can keep up? Looked very un-Redfern reports Inner Sydney Voice Spring 2008.
- Sorry state of public housing – What’s going on?
- It’s been one year since NSW Minister for Housing Matt Brown witnessed the state of public housing in the Redfern/Waterloo area, and nothing has changed reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.
- Residents: upgrade wont solve issues
- The Department of Housing has announced plans to improve landscaping around the Waterloo Green public housing estate, but residents are concerned it will have no impact on the areas social problems reports Jennifer Bennett in Central of 27th August 2008.
- Department Acts to Equip Playground
- A Central campaign to fix unsafe playgrounds in Waterloo public housing has succeeded after the intervention of the Housing Minister reports Robert Burton-Bradley in Central of 25 june 2008.
- Minister steps in to fix playgrounds
- Last week Central ran an article about the poorly maintained Housing NSW Playgrounds putting children at risk. Following the article the Minister stepped in to address the issue. The following Article and Editorial by Lisa Capozzi in Central 30th April 2008 and a letter to the editor on the issue tell the story.
- Risky State of Play
- HOUSING NSW playgrounds in Redfern and Waterloo are no place for children, with rusty equipment, sharp edges, broken swings and missing bolts just accidents waiting to happen, mothers said. Owen and Samantha (pictured) just want a safe place to play, with equipment that works reports Robert Burton-Bradley with Pictures by Phil Rogers in a feature article in Central of 23 April 2008. The topic was also the subject of the editorial also below.
- Waterloo Green: not a safe place
- Public housing residents near Waterloo Green are exhausted and fearful in their own neighborhood, having to confront drug dealing and public drunkenness every day reports John Williams in the South Sydney Herald of April 2008.
- Community Harmony or Budget Sanctuary?
- This opinion piece by Ross Smith responds to the media release: “Iemma Government Targets Illegal Graffitti in Waterloo” of Wednesday, March 12, 2008. It appeared in the National Tenant Support Network’s weekly opinion email Rimfire Review 31 March 2008.
- 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:
- Action Needed Now
- Residents near Waterloo Green say the NSW Department of Housing is dragging its feet on a possible solution to antisocial behaviour reports Robert Burton-Bradley with Picture by Phil Rogers in Central of 27th February 2008
- Clean up this Mess
- WATERLOO Green is unsafe and unclean, according to public housing tenants living near the park. They allege an action plan drawn up by residents and Redfern police has been ignored by the Department of Housing (DOH) reports Central of 6th February 2008 page 10.
- Waterloo Green
- Housing NSW provides housing assistance to people in need. When there is antisocial behaviour in parks or common areas owned by Housing NSW such as Waterloo Green, Housing will pass on relevant information to NSW Police for their action reports this media release from Matt Brown Minister for Housing in NSW of 20 January 2008.
- Summer on the Green: All the fun of the fair
- The sounds of jazz, hip hop and rhythm and blues will echo around the residential tower blocks of Waterloo public housing estate will take place today as residents from Waterloo, Alexandria, and Redfern and beyond joined with more than thirty community, government and private sector organisations to stage summer on the Green. The event will be use to mark the achievements of the local community and celebrate the Factory community Centres 30 years of service to the Waterloo community reports this media release from the Factory.
- Housing Minister avoids questions
- The NSW Housing Minister’s media adviser appears to have misinformed the SSH about a meeting between the Minister and property developers in Waterloo, amid residents’ concerns for the future of public housing in the area reports the December 2007 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- Waterloo Green Action Plan has arrived !
- RWN reported in our last edition that Waterloo residents and frontline workers with the assistance of HCAP formed an action group reports Redwater News of December 2007.
- Matron Gardens Mosaic Project
- The Housing Communities Assistance Program (HCAP) at the Factory Community Centre, working with other agencies under the Time 2 Act banner, had secured grant funding from the City of Sydney to deliver a community mosaic project. The project will encourage young people to participate in the care of the Waterloo Green area and surrounding areas through the creation of an artist-led community mural.
