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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear people concerned about Eveleigh & ATP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>On Monday night Council made public the HillsPDA independent review of the EOI for the sale of the ATP. For easy reference here is the <a href="http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/226833/150223_COUNCIL_ITEM35.pdf">Mayoral Minute</a> which summarises the report and provides council’s reaction. Attachment A is the HillPDA report <a href="http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/226834/150223_COUNCIL_ITEM35_ATTACHMENTA.PDF">Australian Technology Park (ATP) Eveleigh Stage 1 Call for Expressions of Interest An independent review of the opportunities and risks relating to the Sale of the ATP</a>. We encourage you to download both documents and read them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Council will provide a community briefing on the report and this will be hosted by a number of community groups on Tuesday 3<sup>rd</sup> March at 6.30 pm – 8pm at Alexandria Town 73 Garden Street Alexandria NSW 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>We have also written to UrbanGrowth asking them to delay closing their central to Eveleigh feedback portal <a href="https://ug.consultationmanager.com.au/CommunicatorCallback.aspx?e=1230@ug.consultationmanager.com.au&url=http-CCOL-//engage.centraltoeveleigh.com.au">http://engage.centraltoeveleigh.com.au</a> which is due to close this Sunday. If you get a chance to make a comment by midnight this Sunday well and good but we have asked that there be an extension to allow the community to get the council briefing and have a week or two to make a considered response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Please spread the word to anyone who has an interest in the ATP and the proposed sell off through the UrbanGrowth EOI process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also on ATP - Unions NSW has come out in opposition to the ATP sale in line with the following motion:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Draft resolution for NSW on proposed sale of Australian Technology Park</span></i></b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Unions NSW notes:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>a) The Baird Coalition government called for expressions of interest to buy all of the 13.2 hectare Australian Technology Park on the former Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops site, closing on January 30, 2015, with a final sale projected by June 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>b) The ATP site is focused on new technology development and related business incubation, and that about 5,000 people work on the site, and operates at a surplus for the people of NSW<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>c) The ATP site contains the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop buildings including the working Blacksmiths Shop, which is a manufacturing steam-technology heritage site of national and international significance, and which has important social meaning to the local community and retired workers throughout NSW.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>d) The current Conservation Management Plan for the site expires in 2019. This CMP was achieved after a significant union and community struggle to retain public access to the heritage items now conserved there, to ensure that interpretation of the site was developed, and that the Blacksmiths Shop with its unique equipment continued to operate and to train new generations of skilled metal workers. There is no guarantee that this CMP will be renewed under a private owner after 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>e) The Baird government is linking the proposed ATP sale to the bigger project for the transformation of the Central to Eveleigh Corridor, but there is as yet no strategic plan for this larger railway infrastructure space to which any proposed changed use of ATP could relate.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Therefore Unions NSW and its rail union affiliates<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i>call on the Baird Government to cancel the proposed sale of ATP now underway and to undertake an independent public consultation process to determine the best use of the three large carpark sites in ATP which are available for further development, while keeping ATP in public ownership.<o:p></o:p></i></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i>Call on the Baird government to further enhance the conservation and interpretation of the Eveleigh site by ensuring a genuine CMP continues after 2019, and by consulting with rail unions and TAFE about further skills training programs for young workers in the heritage areas<o:p></o:p></i></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i>Call on the Baird government to undertake an independent public consultation about possible transformation of the Central – Eveleigh Corridor to ensure the maximum environmental, public transport, residential, and commercial outcome of this mega-scale concept on public land.<o:p></o:p></i></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i>Support a Union-REDWatch community forum on these issues prior to the March 28 NSW State election to alert the community to the immediate challenges at ATP and the Central-Eveleigh Corridor, and to thus develop a sustained campaign about these vital public assets, whatever the outcome of the state elections.<o:p></o:p></i></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also next week <b>REDWatch is holding a Meat the candidates (Heffron and Newtown) Community BBQ on Thursday in Redfern Park at 6pm Thursday 5th March 201</b>5 - in the event of wet weather the event will be moved to The Factory Community Centre 67 Raglan Street Waterloo. REDWatch will provide a few sausages and some bread but feel free to bring your own items to BBQ or a picnic dinner and join us and the candidates. A flyer to promote the event is attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>REDWatch covers two electorates and this year we are trying an informal community event rather than two formal candidates events<b>. REDWatch is joining with Alexandria Residents Action Group and Friends of Erskineville to hold a candidates forum for the seat of Heffron at Alexandria Town Hall on Wednesday 11th March 6.45 for 7pm</b>. While the ATP is outside Heffron the decisions impact upon those that live in this electorate and one of the questions being put to candidates is about the ATP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>Geoff</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>Geoffrey Turnbull<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>Spokesperson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>REDWatch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>Ph Wk: (02) 8004 1490 Mob: 0418 457 392</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>email: <a href="mailto:mail@redwatch.org.au">mail@redwatch.org.au</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'>web: <a href="http://www.redwatch.org.au" title="blocked::http://www.redwatch.org.au/">www.redwatch.org.au</a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>