Cover Sheet to Submission

REDWatch believes that an integrated planning framework is needed for the Redfern-Waterloo Plan (RWP) as:

• the RWP has a 10 year time frame
• it will be introduced in stages
• without a clear idea of what the RWP hopes to achieve overall – and how - it will be difficult to make sure that all its stages work together to create the future the community wants.

To create this future, we need a broad range of interdependent issues addressed over the 10 years, not just the parts that relate to government land or government priorities.

To help develop an integrated planning framework that can achieve this, REDWatch has prepared:

• a set of questions and answers about the RWP and the kind of integrated planning framework we think it needs
• draft principles on community participation for all aspects of the RWP, including the development of an integrated planning framework
• a draft integrated planning framework (we called it “The Plan in Outline”).

REDWatch is forwarding this material to the RWA as an example of the type of approach they could take in preparing the Redfern Waterloo Plan.

REDWatch does not claim either that this is the only possible format for an integrated planning framework, or that the content within it represents all views in Redfern and Waterloo.

REDWatch does, however, urge the Minister and the RWA to tell the people of Redfern and Waterloo - as a matter of urgency:

• how they propose to develop an integrated planning framework for Redfern-Waterloo
• how the community will be able to participate in its development, and
• when they expect to start the framework and have it completed.

Geoffrey Turnbull

On behalf of REDWatch, May 31^st  2005.

REDWatch, c/- PO Box 1567, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012
Ph Wk: (02) 9318 0824        email: mail@redwatch.org.au

REDWatch is a residents and friends group covering Redfern Eveleigh Darlington and Waterloo (the same area covered by the Redfern Waterloo Authority). REDWatch monitors the activities of the RWA and other government bodies and seeks to ensure community involvement in all decisions made about the area.

REDWatch meets at 2pm on the 4^th Sunday of the month at the Redfern Community Centre.

This material has been produced by REDWatch in collaboration with planners who have volunteered their time to help REDWatch develop these frameworks. The material in this document may be used with acknowledgement.

As well as naming REDWatch, the acknowledgement referring to the Planning Framework and the Questions and Answers should also reference Elizabeth Rice.

REDWatch is grateful for the professional assistance and input provided by Elizabeth Rice, Patricia Collins and many other professionals and locals wishing to see good participatory planning processes used in Redfern Waterloo.

Our special thanks goes to the members of the REDWatch Redfern Waterloo Plan Working Group for their work in developing this document.