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An Integrated Planning Framework for the Redfern-Waterloo Plan
What is the Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
The
Redfern-Waterloo Plan is the mechanism the NSW Government will use to manage
the following issues, and their interaction, in Redfern-Waterloo over the next
10 years:
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human
services
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jobs
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infrastructure
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new
development/redevelopment.
Who will make the Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
The Minister responsible for Redfern-Waterloo (the Hon Frank Sartor, MP) will make the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
What gives him the power to make the Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
In December 2004, the NSW Parliament passed an Act to allow the Redfern-Waterloo Minister to make the Redfern Waterloo Plan.
This Act of Parliament (the Redfern-Waterloo Authority Act 2004) gave the Minister for Redfern-Waterloo sweeping powers in the area.It also created the Redfern-Waterloo Authority which advises the Minister on matters relating to Redfern-Waterloo, including the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
Will the Redfern-Waterloo Plan (RWP) be developed all at once?
The Minister has said that the Redfern-Waterloo Plan will be developed in stages.
How will the stages of the Plan fit together to ensure an integrated, comprehensive RWP?
The Minister hasn’t made any statements about this.
What can we do to make sure the stages fit together?
Ask the Minister to agree to an integrated planning framework for the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
What sort of thing could we suggest to the Minister?
If you agree with the points made in the answers to the rest of these questions, you could ask him to do what they suggest.
Why do we need an integrated planning framework?
The Redfern-Waterloo Plan (RWP) has a 10 year life span. Unless there is something to tie activities together over this period, neither the community nor the Government will have a clear idea of:
§ what they want to achieve over 10 years
§ how they are going to try to achieve it
§ how each stage of the RWP can reinforce, not undermine, these efforts
§ whether, at the end of the 10 years, the issues the community wants addressed have been covered by the various stages
§ whether - in both the short term and the long-term – the RWP has succeeded.
In short, without an integrated planning framework there will be no mutually agreed reference point for the different stages of the RWP.
What do we need in the integrated planning framework?
The essential components of an integrated planning framework which can underpin the Redfern-Waterloo Plan over its 10 year lifespan are:
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§ Statement of commitment:
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What the NSW Government will do - and will not do - in Redfern-Waterloo |
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§ Vision:
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The sort of place we want Redfern-Waterloo to be |
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§ Values and Principles:
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How everyone needs to act to make Redfern-Waterloo the sort of place we want it to be |
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§ Key objectives:
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The overall things we want for Redfern-Waterloo in the long run |
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§ Priority outcomes:
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The most important short and medium term things we need to achieve if Redfern-Waterloo is going to be the place we want it to be |
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§ Implementation strategy:
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What everyone needs to do to make Redfern-Waterloo the place we want it to be |
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§ Review strategy: |
How we will know that things have changed and what everyone needs to do if they haven’t |
How much detail do we need to go into?
If the integrated planning framework is to guide the Redfern-Waterloo Plan through 10 years of development, implementation and review, each component needs content that is:
§ robust enough to remain relevant over that period
§ not so detailed that:
ú it will never be completed
ú it will allow no flexibility.
What would the integrated planning framework look like?
The following pages are an example:
§ the first page gives the headings for what’s in the integrated planning framework
§ the remaining pages give examples of how the content could be filled in, through an RWA and community consultation process.
Is anything else needed?
Yes – community participation principles.
REDWatch has prepared a set of draft community participation principles as a companion document to the draft REDWatch integrated planning framework.
Why isn’t a community participation strategy included in the integrated planning framework?
Community participation is threaded through all the activities that the integrated planning framework covers.
However, the framework itself also needs to be developed through a community participation process.
That is why REDWatch has prepared a separate document on community participation principles for Redfern and Waterloo.
These principles should be supplemented by the guidelines the NSW Government has adopted for the NSW planning system.
These guidelines, which won planning awards, are at http://www.iplan.nsw.gov.au/engagement/index.jsp and http://203.147.162.100/pia/engagement/index.htm - but they may need to be adapted where necessary to the broader needs of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.
Are there other NSW guidelines that can help with the integrated planning framework?
Yes - the strategic planning components of the Government’s Strategic Management Framework at http://www.premiers.nsw.gov.au/WorkAndBusiness/WorkingForGovernment/StrategicManagementFramework/
Isn’t there still a problem – the Redfern-Waterloo Authority is already developing Stage 1 of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan?
This problem can be overcome – as long as the Redfern-Waterloo Authority agrees that:
§ Stage 1 of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan will be interim only until the community and the Government have agreed on an integrated planning framework
§ the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, in conjunction with the community, will review the Stage 1 Redfern-Waterloo Plan to ensure it still fits within the guidelines of the agreed framework and adjust it if necessary.
