$30,000,000 Indigenous sports centre gets the nod

The National Indigenous Development Centre, to be located at the former Redfern Public School site, will be three storeys high and include a 25-metre swimming pool, gymnasium, child care centre and football field and will cost around $30.6 million to build.

The Minister attached a number of conditions including the need to appoint "an experienced conservation architect", archaeologists and limit heritage disruption.

Mr Sartor said via press release: "This centre has the potential to deliver significant benefits to the Redfern-Waterloo community."

NIDC will house national and local Indigenous sport bodies. The Exodus Foundation will run literary and numeracy training for students aged 10 to 14.

The Department of Planning is yet to post the details of the approval on their website raising transparency concerns among some community members.

In particular the Minister has not disclosed whether the ILC, a federal body investing a total of $45 million in the area, will be exempt from the Redfern Waterloo Authority's development and affordable housing levies.