Frasers has lodged a modified concept with the Department of Planning for the former Broadway brewery site. The modified concept plan will soon be on exhibition, and with the technical documents, available to the public (Frasers will publish the documents relating to the modified concept plan on their website at the first opportunity). Frasers say they are keen to give high quality information to the community in order to inform any public submissions.
At 6:30pm there will be presentations to highlight the proposed modifications to the Concept Plan as well as the design excellence process. The international and Australian design team will be available to showcase their preliminary designs for the site.
Fraser’s realise that this community information session is being held during the school holidays which is not ideal but say they are unfortunately subject to the Department of Planning approval process.
Fraser’s intend to have an additional static display (in addition to the required display at the DoP) that will run during the exhibition process. Details of the location and timing will be made available as soon as the DoP provides its advice.
]]>We welcome your opinions regarding the proposal redevelopment of the Redfern RSL Site. The proposal includes active retail frontages to Redfern & Gibbons Streets, a modern RSL club, office and inner city residential apartments. The development envisages
If you can not attend, there will be further opportunity for your comments via the email address noted below or during the exhibition.
RSVP: mail@scapestrategy.com.auWe welcome your opinions regarding the proposal redevelopment
You can download the flyer and feedback sheet here - RSL Development Community Information Evening Leaflet & Feedback Sheet
Information about the preliminary project applications and future infommation about the project can be found on the department of Planning website at - MP09_0039 - Mixed Use Development, Redfern RSL, Gibbons Street, Redfern
The proposed building is to contain:
· active street frontages with shops at the ground floor level fronting both Redfern and Gibbons Streets;
· new club premises for Redfern RSL at the 1st floor level
· commercial office space at the 2nd and 3rd floor levels
· apartments at the upper floor levels of the building.
The proposal will involve significant improvements to the public domain in terms of enhancing pedestrian linkages along Redfern Street between the Redfern Railway Station and the Redfern Town Centre on the eastern side of Regent Street by:
· eliminating vehicular access and vehicle/pedestrian conflict in Redfern Street
· establishing an attractive, vibrant and active street frontage
· providing shade and shelter for people using the link
· casual surveillance of the public domain over extended hours by virtue of the use and operation of the proposed shops, offices, club and apartments.
The developer is particularly interested in feed back on the public domain surrounding the building.
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RWA invites you to share your passion for Sydney's industrial heritage and be part of an exciting opportunity to shape the Eveleigh Rail Yards Interpretation Plan.
RSVP ESSENTIAL to reception@rwa.nsw.gov.au or 9202 9100 Juliet Suich Redfern Waterloo Heritage Taskforce
Please Send this RWA Eveleigh Interpretation Plan Consultation Invite - 30 Sept 2010 (PDF 393Kb) to anyone you know who was associated with Eveleigh and use it to promote this important event
The RWA has engaged 3D Projects in association with Artscape and Only Human to prepare an Interpretation Plan for the Eveleigh Rail Yards Precinct. The specific aims of the Plan are to:
To finalise a PCTC plan, the City of Sydney works very closely with local residents taking the following steps
Proposals in the draft plan include:
To improve your local area for walkers, cyclists and local traffic the City is developing a series of Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Calming Plans.
These are community-driven plans which will manage and calm traffic on local roads, increase pedestrian, bicycle and public transport access and provide better safety and amenity for local residents.
To finalise a PCTC plan, the City of Sydney works very closely with local residents taking the following steps
For further information please contact:
Elizabeth Rush
Senior Transport Planner
Tel: 02 9265 9333
Email: erush@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
More information on this development can be found on the Department of Planning website SSD-51274973 600-660 Elizabeth Street, Redfern - Mixed Use.
As the documents are all mixed up on the planning portal you may want to also have a look at the REDWatch website page where we made some initial comments and provided a list of unscrambled documents and links - 660 Elizabeth St Redfern (PCYC site) Redevelopment - Exhibition until 4 December 2024.
You can see the media release from Bridge Housing on the REDWatch website under New DA with ambition to deliver more social and affordable housing in Redfern. There is also general information on Bridge’s Redfern Place Development Proposal page and the Homes NSW / NSW Land and Housing Corporation's Redfern Place web page. Construction is planned to begin late 2025 before completion in early 2028.
You can download a flyer for this event from Elizabeth Street & PCYC Redfern Plan Explained REDWatch Meeting 26 Nov 24 Flyer
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STOP BLACK DEATHS IN CUSTODY NOW - FIGHT RACISM IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
PUBLIC MEETING: REDFERN COMMUNITY CENTRE (THE BLOCK) SATURDAY, APRIL 10th 2010 at 1.00pm
SPEAKERS: VICTIM’S FAMILIES; ABORIGINAL ACTIVISTS; HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS
Organized by Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA)
Supported by: STICS, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative
For more information Ray Jackson 0415858264 or Raul Bassi 0403037376
PRESS RELEASE
April 7, 2010
From February 20-April 4, the custodial systems of Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales became the Killing Fields. There have been six Deaths in Custody in gaols and police watchouses, as well as the triple shooting of an 18-year-old escapee on transit from Bathurst Gaol to the Mental Health Unit at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Gaol at the Silverwater Complex.
Two outstanding cases have yet to reach a satisfactory judicial solution: the February 2004 death of TJ Hickey, whose family has sent a submission to the United Nations in an attempt to bring the Redfern Police to justice; and the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island in November 2004 at the hands of then-Sgt Chris Hurley – which led to a community riot, three Coronial Inquests and a Supreme Court trial. Still justice has yet to be found..
Both families live in an everyday hell of despair while searching for justice.
The horror death of Mr Ward in 2008 in WA at the hands of the two transport officers was by far the most callous death in custody for many years: Mr Ward was literally cooked to death in a transit van in temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius. Some 27 months later, charges against the officers are still pending but the WA government has been shamed into paying some interim compensation.
Three deaths in 2009 in the NSW gaol system highlight the lack of any duty of care that was also missing from all the deaths as outlined above.
After the 2009 Mardi gras, Redfern Police arrested 34-year-old Veronica Baxter, a transwoman, and placed her at the MRRC, a male gaol. Within days she was found hung in her one-out cell. Gaol staff stated that she was able to mix with the male inmates and even to visit another pod within the gaol. Little beyond that is known as Commissioner Woodham has declared that no information is to be made public, not even to the family.
The second death took place in the back of a NSW transit van. Mark Holcroft, a non-Aboriginal inmate died of a heart attack during transit from Bathurst Gaol to Mannus Gaol in August 2009. Similar to the Mr Ward case, the transit van drivers considered their comfort to be more important than that of Mark. He has been dead for two hours when the van reached Mannus Gaol. The family was informed five days later.
The third death, in early December 2009, was that of 21-year-old Terry Griffith Jnr, who was found hung in his one-out cell at the John Moroney's Young Offenders Program at Windsor. Again, nothing is known as the cold hand of Commissioner Woodham has kept everything secret. The family was only informed of their son's death two days later.
The six deaths in custody in WA and Qld in 2010 continue the travesty of justice and the complete lack of any duty of care. What makes the custodial organisations – the police, the gaols and the health systems – believe that inmates and detainees have no human rights? If we strip these from them, then what hope for rehabilitation?
Our police and our gaolers do not, and must never have, the power of an executioner. That is not their role. Why then do they hold sway over the “Killing Fields”? Why does society believe that the lives taken are not worthy? It is because they are Aboriginal persons?
They must become more responsible and accept their duty of care: we must stop the Killing Fields.
To that purpose, the INDIGENOUS SOCIAL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION is holding a public meeting outside the Redfern Community Centre at 2pm on Saturday April 10, 2010. Come hear the families, activists and communities call for justice and end the Killing Fields.
Ray Jackson at 9318 0947 or Raul Bassi at 0403 037 376
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* improve walking access to, and safety around, local schools;
* prioritise installation of new street crossings and traffic calming devices;
* plan for improved and new cycleways;
* improve access to public transport ; and
* re-direct through-traffic to State and regional roads
A community meeting for the Erskineville, Newtown and Darlington Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Calming Plan will be held in conjunction with the Inner West Community Forum on Tuesday 31 March at Rydges, 9 Missenden Road Camperdown.
The community Forum will also consider the plans for Darlington's Charles Kernan Reserve http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Council/MeetingsAndCommittees/2009/Committees/090309/environment.asp
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Those with an interest in what Council is proposing for the Newtown Erskineville Camperdown and Darlington Pedestrian Cycling and Traffic Calming Plan should consult the report and take the opportunity to raise their concerns at the 16 December 2009 CoS Traffic Committee meeting.
You are entitled to make a representation at the Traffic Committee. However in order to do this, you will need to contact Claudia Calabro via email (ccalabro@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au) including a brief description of what your concerns are.
Due to the timing of this report going to committee it will not go to Council until February so there will be some extra time between the report being considered by the Traffic Committee and the Council for people to raise any concerns with Councillors.
The Council Officers Report to the Taffic Committee can be found at: Newtown Erskineville Camperdown And Darlington Pedestrian Cycling And Traffic Calming Plan | PDF 6Mb
The Final Technical Report can be found at: Final Tech Report - Newtown Erskineville Camperdown Darlington Pedestrian Cycling and Traffic | PDF 15Mb
The details of the Traffic Committee (with incorrect date header) can be found at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Council/MeetingsAndCommittees/2009/Traffic/161209.asp
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Dear Resident,
Your new local food garden
When we talked to local residents about upgrading Charles Kernan Reserve, you suggested we might put in a food garden.
In response to your request an area has now been set aside for food growing, and will be developed as part of the renewal of the reserve.
A meeting has been organised to bring people together who are interested in developing and caring for this communal garden. If you want to be involved in this exciting project please come along on:
Saturday 15 May 2010, 2pm - 5pm
Redfern Community Centre
29-53 Hugo Street Redfern
For a complete plan of the improvements to the park please see over the page (see Plan of Charles Kernan Reserve Showing Food Garden ).
The City's Sustainable Sydney 2030 plan for a green, global and connected city can be achieved only through partnerships with you — our residents. Our community gardens program is an innovative way communities and the City can work together to enjoy and improve local green spaces, and share ideas about sustainable food.
Once a community group has been set up for this project, follow-up meetings will be organised to help plan and build the garden. These meetings will take place after work on the reserve is complete.
Please RSVP to the meeting by Monday 9 May 2010 by contacting Council's Community Gardrden Coordinator, Annie Walker on 9265 9786 or by email - anwalker@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Yours sincerely
GARRY HARDING
Director - City; Community and Cultural Services; Community and Cultural Services
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Light refreshments will be provided.
Should you require this information in an alternative format please contact: CITY OF SYDNEY: 9265 9333 council@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au Translating & Interpreting Service (TIS):13 14 50
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