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Media Articles on Redfern Waterloo
This is a selection of major news items about Redfern Waterloo from various media outlets.
The AHC also has a good selection of the stories about the Block in their media news section at http://www.ahc.org.au.
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- Redfern & NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan
- The NSW Government has now finalised its Long Term Transport Masterplan. Little has changed from the draft, a Redfern Station upgrade is still only a medium term priority in the following terms: “A comprehensive and multi-modal upgrade would address station access and connectivity issues, including access within and to the station, safe and convenient interchange with bus, pedestrian and cycle routes, and accommodating a corridor for expansion of the CBD rail network”
- Landscaping for Park near North Eveleigh Western Entrance
- The landscaping and park proposed to the east of the new western entrance to North Eveleigh and Carriageworks has been approved in the road and early works approval. To make the details readily available REDWatch has requested additional details from the SMDA and these are provided below.
- SMDA To Start North Eveleigh Affordable Housing Project
- The SMDA have posted their response to community submissions and anounced they will start work on the infrastructure required for the North Eveleigh Affordable Housing project. The announcement issued an email statement and placed details on their website on 13 November 2012. The details from their website are below:
- Pemulwuy Preferred Project Comment Period - Until 21 Sept 2012
- The Department of Planning and Infrastructure has received a Preferred Project Report (PPR) from Deicorp Pty on behalf of the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in response to the submissions raised following exhibition of the Environmental Assessment for the above Major Project.
- REDWatch Submission on NSW Planning System Review Green Paper
- Below is the text of the REDWatch Submission on the NSW Planning System Review Green Paper submitted on 14 September 2012. This submission raises many concerns based on REDWatch's Redfern Waterloo experience.
- UrbanGrowth NSW will not sell or build homes
- The state government body charged with turbo-charging the state's housing sector and replacing Landcom will not sell or build homes, it has been revealed, in a historic shift of responsibilities reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald of 8 September 2012.
- Landcom boss slams housing barriers
- THE chairman of the NSW government's development agency, Landcom, has hit out at lengthy delays to government-backed housing projects, such as Sydney's $1.7 billion Green Square in the city's inner south, blaming layers of policy and high costs reports Bridget Carter in The Australian of 8 September 2012.
- Redfern & NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan – Exhibition Until 26 Oct
- The Draft Masterplan says of Redfern Station “A comprehensive and multi-modal upgrade would address station access and connectivity issues, including access within and to the station, safe and convenient interchange with bus, pedestrian and cycle routes, and accommodating a corridor for expansion of the CBD rail network”. The Draft however sees this as a medium term priority as part of “upgrades to develop key city interchanges including Town Hall, Central, Redfern, Wynyard and Circular Quay”
- There Goes The Neighbourhood
- Once a byword for social decay, Redfern is now hip, thanks to gentrification and redevelopment. But while that has attracted cool cafes and the upwardly mobile, the area's many public housing residents are feeling increasingly downtrodden, as Stephanie Wood discovers in Sydney Magazine issue no 113 for September 2012.
- Lift Redfern Petition Debate Transcript
- On 23 August 2012 at 4.30pm the NSW Legislative Assembly debated the Lift Redfern petition. Below is the draft transcript of the debate which included Ms Clover Moore (Sydney), Ms Gladys Berejiklian (Willoughby - Minister for Transport), Ms Carmel Tebbutt (Marrickville), Mr Charles Casuscelli (Strathfield) and Mr Jamie Parker (Balmain).
- Campaign on Track
- THE Lift Redfern Campaign will finally get its moment in parliament tomorrow reports James Gorman in Central on 22 August 2012.
- North Eveleigh could be New Enterprise Zone :Green Paper - Exhibition until 14 Sept 2012
- The NSW Government released on 14 July its Green paper on the new Planning System, it is on exhibition until 14 September. The plan proposes greater up front community involvement in where development goes with less community input once these decisions have been made. Included in green paper are new Zonings including an Enterprise Zone with "very little, if any, development controls providing they do not result in any significant adverse environmental impacts". The Green Paper uses North Eveleigh as an example of where an Enterprise Zone could be established. REDWatch is concerned as the Department of Planning has previously recognised that traffic impacts from this site have a significant impact on the surrounding area. More details on the New Enterprise Zone is provided below.
- Rachel Forster site community meeting
- The Redfern community is alive and kicking, and determined to ensure the inevitable redevelopment of the area is as good as it should be. A diverse group of neighbours, with wide-ranging skills and experience, gathered at Redfern Town Hall on the morning of Saturday June 16 to hear the consultants employed by the current developers of the Rachel Forster Hospital site talk about what they are planning to do reports Caroline Pidcock in the South Sydney Herald of July 2012.
- Notre Dame Fears
- Since the University of Notre Dame (UNDA) first opened in Chippendale it has purchased several sites and expanded its campus more than five-fold. Contrary to previous undertakings, the University is now starting to encroach residential streets. Estimates indicate nearly 4,000 students attend the Chippendale campus. This is well ahead of projections writes Geoff Turnbull in the July 2012 edition of the South Sydney Herald.
- 2011 Census
- The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its first figures from the 2011 census. When compared to earlier census data the 2011 figures show population increases in the Sydney LGA up 8.2 per cent over the last five years with Redfern up 4.8 per cent and Waterloo up 25.2 per cent for over the same period. Over the last 10 years the population of Redfern has increased 9.7 per cent and Waterloo a huge 206 per cent writes Geoff Turnbull in the July 2012 South Sydney Herald.
- Bye-bye SMDA
- The NSW budget announced the demise of the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority (SMDA) and its amalgamation with Landcom into a new state-wide body called Urbangrowth NSW. The new body will have compulsory acquisition powers like the current SMDA and will be in place by mid-July writes Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of July 2012.
- Leamington saved
- Save Leamingt on Ave Inc (SLA) has been seeking assurances that their homes are safe since a leaflet arrived in their letterboxes showing resumption in June 2010. After two years they have received a letter from Transport for NSW (TNSW) Director General assuring them that “properties in that area are not required for transport projects, either now or in the foreseeable future” writes Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of July 2012.
- Redfern Station upgrade update
- Media reports on the NSW Government’s Fixing the Trains: Sydney’s Rail Future on June 21 said the second harbour tunnel crossing would extend through the city and connect south of Central to the Illawarra and Bankstown lines. This is consistent with maps in the report and may help speed up the sale of North Eveleigh and the upgrade of Redfern Station which should not be impacted.
- Kristina Keneally Resigns from NSW Parliament
- The Hon Kristina Keneally MP today (23rd June 2012) announced she will resign from NSW Parliament effective 29 June 2012 reports this media statement from Kristina Keneally.
- The Redfern Waterloo Case Coordination Project receives approval from Privacy Commissioner
- The NSW Office of the Privacy Commissioner has issued a Direction relating to the Redfern Waterloo Case Coordination Project under s. 41(1) of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 allowing the City of Sydney Council and specified Government bodies to exchange information in the referral and management of Complex Cases in the Redfern Waterloo area under the preview of the Redfern Waterloo Case Coordination Senior Officers’ Group, which is comprised of representatives from Participating Organisations and Participating Agencies. The general details of the determination is provided below and the full determination and the definitions can be found at the link at the bottom of this page.
