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News Item Unpacking Housing Mix in the Waterloo South Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 07, 2022 05:23 PM
The housing mix materials for the consultation (website, information boards and brochure) explain housing mix based on the number of units or front doors prior to any of the possible 10% floorspace increase from design excellence. The planning proposal itself provides figures by both housing units and the proportion of residential gross floor area prior to uplift. As the average unit sizes of public and affordable housing is smaller than the private housing the proportion of the floor space allocated to social and affordable housing are lower percentages. Here REDWatch unpacks the housing mix figures.
News Item REDWatch Guide to Waterloo South Study planning proposal documents by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 07, 2022 05:04 PM
The Waterloo South planning proposal documents are complex because they contain documents relating to the original LAHC proposal, Council’s proposal, the Gateway determination and then the subsequent additional studies produced by the Planning Proposal Authority that was not Council. They are also complex because the Planning Proposal does not contain all the necessary information in one place and finding the correct information is not straightforward. This document tries to provide guidance through these documents so the reader can find the information they are looking for as easily as possible.
Image Floor Space Ratios (FSRs) for Waterloo South Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 07, 2022 04:00 PM
The main Planning Proposal document does not contain the proposed Floor space rations (FSRs) proposed. The FSR map can be found on page 135 of the Hassell Addendum to the urban design report or spread across two pages of the draft LEP Cadastre maps. We have extracted the FSR map from the Hassell Addendum to the urban design report to make it more easily accessible. Please note these are the FSR's before the 10% increase allowable if design excellence is achieved. The 10% bonus increases the number of dwellings over the base 3012 which is calculated before the 10% bonus if achieved.
Event REDWatch Meeting Today 7 April 6pm - The Mood: Thoughts, Issues and Possible Responses to the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 07, 2022 03:31 PM
The meeting will hear an online update by Peter John Cantrell from the City of Sydney on Council’s recent analysis of the proposal, including that the proposal is bigger than disclosed by DPE (see later in this update). There will also be an update of community responses and the emerging issues. A panel will try to encourage discussion, answer questions and suggest areas for submissions to cover.
File Groundswell seeks expert input for Waterloo South by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 06, 2022 07:19 AM
The Groundswell agencies have written to academics and planning specialists asking them to support public housing tenants by making expert comment on the Waterloo Planning proposal. While public tenants bring their expertise from living and knowing a location, academics and specialists often know the finer detail that is import for planning authorities to consider. Both kinds of input are important for Waterloo. This letter has been sent out by the Groundswell agencies to their contacts and they are encouraging everyone to make a submission and share it if possible.
News Item Draft Council Submission: Waterloo South proposal is 10% bigger and this is not being disclosed by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 02, 2022 09:08 AM
The City of Sydney Council have produced a Draft submission on the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. The draft is on the Council website among papers to go to the Transport, Heritage, Environment and Planning Committee on Monday 4 April 2022. It would then be dealt with at the Central Sydney Planning Committee meeting on Thursday 7 April and the Council meeting on 11 April 2022.
News Item Updated Consultation on Waterloo South Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Apr 01, 2022 01:44 PM
Below are the consultation and capacity building details for the Waterloo South Planning Proposal. We will update this as more information comes to hand.
File Vigilanti Waterloo South Planning Proposal Presentation by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 28, 2022 04:18 PM
Eddie Ma and his team at Vigilanti has been working with public housing tenants sharing his Architectural expertise during the Waterloo South consultations. Eddie has reviewed the planning proposal documents published by DPIE and prepared a summary of his findings from the documents in simple English with graphics so the community has all the information they need to make their submission by Friday 29th April, and to have their say on the proposal. He has tried to provide some answers and context to the questions and concerns raised during the consultation process. In agreement with Eddie Ma, REDWatch is happy to make the presentation as accessible as possible through its website as a useful resource in understanding and responding to the proposal.
File Waterloo South Redevelopment: Unpacking the Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 17, 2022 04:02 PM
This presentation was given on 17 March 2022 at Counterpoint Community Services as part of Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal Capacity Building. This session explains that the Planning Proposal is setting the rules for developers and LAHC to follow in preparing their detailed proposal and Development Applications. This presentation starts with the proposed planning controls rather than the simplified planning map of a possible outcome under the proposed planning controls.
File Waterloo Redevelopment - How did we get here? by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 14, 2022 06:32 PM
This is the PowerPoint presentation in PDF format from a presentation given by Geoffrey Turnbull from REDWatch on Wednesday 9 March 2022 for Counterpoint Community Services' Waterloo (South) Exhibition Planning Proposal Capacity Building. The recording of this presentation and the workshop outcomes will be placed on the Counterpoint Community Services website. The presentation looks at the history of plans to redevelop Waterloo public housing from the Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project in 2003 until the current exhibition.
Image Overshadowing Drawings for Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 13, 2022 06:24 PM
The Overshadowing Drawings for the Waterloo (South) Planning Proposal are only found in the Appendix B of the Addendum to urban design report by Hassell. To enable easy access to these drawings that give information of the shadows at different times of the day mid winter and mid summer and at the Equinox, we have extracted them and placed them on the REDWatch website for download.
News Item Land Use Zones Proposed for Waterloo South by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 13, 2022 05:20 PM
The Waterloo South planning proposal proposes changing land uses the existing residential R1 and 2b zones to RE1, and business zones B2 and B4 for the area. The B4 zone is mitigated by applying in the LEP a Restricted Retail Development over this area which limits shops to 1,000 square metres. The LEP also incudes an active street frontage map where uses that will activate the public domain are required. Below we have provided the LEP Zone definitions from the Sydney Local Environment Plan 2012 that would apply to the site. The definitions set out the objectives of each zone, what is permitted with and without consent and what is prohibited. While the planning proposal sets out proposed uses, the land use zones set out what a land owner or developer may also be able to do on that land which may be quite different. We have also supplied the Restricted Retail Development and Active Street frontages map for completeness.
News Item Building heights in the Waterloo South Planning Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 13, 2022 04:37 PM
Height of buildings is basic to understanding a planning proposal. This planning proposal makes understanding height difficult by dealing with it in a number of ways. Also height maps in the documents do not always agree. Here REDWatch unpacks the Height of buildings in the Waterloo South planning proposal.
News Item Public to have say on future of Waterloo Estate - Media Release by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 07, 2022 07:41 PM
This is the text of the media release from Minister for Planning and Minister for Homes Anthony Roberts regarding the Waterloo Estate (South) public exhibition on 3 March 2022.
Image Solar Access for buildings in the Waterloo South Project Proposal by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 07, 2022 06:08 PM
This diagram illustrates the percentage of solar access to the internal and external perimeter of the building facades for each development block in the Waterloo (South) planning proposal between 9am and 3pm mid winter. Yellow shows greater than 2 hours sun and blue shows less than 2 hours sun. It it from page 114 of the Addendum to the urban design report prepared by Hassel. Apart from section 4.7 (page 123-126) in the same report on the impact of the 4th tower there are no solar access diagrams in the planning proposal that relate to the planning proposal on exhibition. None of the maps in the urban design report for solar access to streets, open spaces, communal open space or deep soil zones that showing how many hours of sunlight different areas get for the preferred plan receives have been done for the exhibited proposal.
File REDWatch Easy Access Waterloo South LEP by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 07, 2022 10:53 AM
REDWatch has created this easy access version of Waterloo South planning proposal maps. For each of the draft controls to go into the City of Sydney Local environment Plan there are two pages because the join between two of the pages runs through the north western tip of Waterloo South. REDWatch has created this pdf from the sheets in the draft maps covering the bulk of the estate. The only major omission is that the active street frontage on wellington Street continues around the corner into Cope Street.
Folder Waterloo Estate (South) Planning Proposal Exhibition March 2022 by REDWatch, last updated: Mar 03, 2022 11:27 AM
This section of the website deals with material from the DPE formal exhibition of the Waterloo Estate (South) planning proposal in March and April 2022
File Clover Moore to REDWatch regarding Council Community Centres by REDWatch, last updated: Feb 24, 2022 06:51 PM
In February 2022 REDWatch became aware of questions circulating about the future of Council's Community Centres and facilities. REDWatch wrote to Council about what we had heard and asking for assurances that Redfern Community Centre and Waterloo Library would continue to service our local communities. The attached response from Lord Mayor Clover Moore provides these assurances and responds to some misinformation that is circulating. REDWatch is making the letter public so people have access to Council assurances regarding the future of council provided services in our area. REDWatch has run an optical character recognition (OCR) program across this letter so people can easily extract quotes from the letter however please check the copy against the visual text as errors can occur with OCR.
News Item LAHC profit on 600 Elizabeth Street Redfern to fund social housing across the state at cost of affordable housing by REDWatch, last updated: Feb 24, 2022 06:41 PM
The Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) have now finalised the planning controls for the 600-660 Elizabeth redevelopment. Council has been unsuccessful in forcing its recommended 7.5% affordable housing on the site in addition to the 30% social housing proposed by LAHC. The approved planning controls are for a minimum of 30% affordable housing (which includes social housing).
File Recent research on mixed tenure redevelopment - Dr Laura Crommelin presentation by REDWatch, last updated: Feb 08, 2022 11:42 AM
This presentation by Dr Laura Crommelin - CFRC Fellow from UNSW City Futures Research Centre was presented to a REDWatch meeting on 3 February 2022. The brief presentation deals with recent work on lower-income residents in higher density as well as summarising key findings from research on mixed tenure development, Equitable density and improving outcomes from development. It also provides links to some research and articles in The Conversation.
 
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