[North Eveleigh] No March REDWatch Meeting / Waterloo South / Elizabeth Street /199 Cleveland St

Tue Mar 5 15:14:36 AEDT 2024

Dear REDWatch members, supporters and agencies,

No REDWatch Meeting on March 7

REDWatch Co-ord Group looking for more members

People and Place Waterloo South Reports

600-660 Elizabeth Street (Redfern Place) update

199 Cleveland Street - State Heritage Register consideration for comment by 11 March 2024
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No REDWatch Meeting on March 7
The REDWatch meeting for March has been cancelled. In its place REDWatch will be holding a Health Impact Assessment meeting with the Peer Educators. The Peer Educators were brought together by Sydney Local Health District as part of the Waterloo Human Services Collaborative. The Peer Educators have received training from SLHD and have been running meeting for tenants in Waterloo and further afield. It was thought that an initial discussion with the Peer Educators would be a good way of getting input into the Community Lead Health Impact Assessment on the Waterloo South Redevelopment.
REDWatch Co-ord Group looking for more members
Since our November AGM REDWatch has experienced some changes in people's ability to be on our Coord Group and our Secretary and Convenor have needed to step back from the Coord Group. So we need to do a bit of a reshuffle and we would like also to bring a couple more people onto the Coord Group to also assist. If you might be interested and would like more information then please let us know on mail at redwatch.org.au<mailto:mail at redwatch.org.au> and we can provide you with further information or someone on the Coord group can catch up for a chat over a beverage. This is an opportunity to bring your skills to assist REDWatch and the community and to pick up some new skills in the process.
People and Place Waterloo South Reports
Homes NSW Portfolio (LAHC) is working on releasing a draft Waterloo South Community Plan in March. REDWatch has pencilled in the REDWatch meeting on Thursday April 4 for a discussion about that draft Community Plan. The draft Community Plan brings together the separate elements of what was previously referred to as the People and Place Framework. Two of the four studies connected to people and place are now released by Housing NSW to the Human Services Collaborative, which involves agencies and community representatives. The two studies are:

  *   People and Place Report: Waterloo Connecting with Country Framework prepared by Murawin<http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/Waterloo/lahc22-23/240222lahcm/view>
  *   People and Place Report: Waterloo Place Framework prepared by Hatch Roberts Day<http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/Waterloo/lahc22-23/240222lahchrd/view>
Homes NSW has also released the People and Place Outcomes Report from October 2023 NCIE Workshop<http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/Waterloo/lahc22-23/240222lahc/view>. This session covered various areas of the People and Place Framework not yet released, so it gives some indication of LAHC's approach and the response of the workshop to it. This is an outcomes report and reflects what LAHC heard from people at the workshop. It was not possible for attendees to comment on all material in the short time allowed at the workshop and LAHC declined to allow attendees to make considered contributions after the workshop. Unlike the Waterloo Human Services Collaborative, where there are discussions about different actions and a consensus reached, the outcomes report has not been tested by agencies and residents.
REDWatch will alert people when the Draft Community Plan that brings together the People and Place work is released by Homes NSW Portfolio.
600-660 Elizabeth Street (Redfern Place) update
The Bridge Housing team responsible for the redevelopment of the Homes NSW Portfolio (LAHC) site at 600-660 Elizabeth Street is finalised with Silvester Fuller winning the Design Competition for the market housing building<http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/elizssd/240227bridge>. The site that contains the Redfern PCYC will now be known as Redfern Place and "will comprise four buildings, including a community space, market and key worker housing, affordable housing, NDIS and social housing, and the new home for Bridge Housing's head office as it returns to its roots in Redfern."
Silvester Fuller will design the key worker and market housing building within Redfern Place. Architecture AND was selected as designers of the 3,500 m2 community facility through a competitive expression of interest process. The media release says that "Bridge Housing and infrastructure partner Capella Capital have gathered Australia's design innovators, including Hayball as overall design team lead and executive architect, Aspect Studios landscape architects, cultural advisers, and Yerrabingin, and now we are excited to announce the latest additions to complete the team in Silvester Fuller and Architecture AND."
199 Cleveland Street - State Heritage Register consideration for comment by 11 March 2024
Many people in the Redfern area will know this building as the base for theatrical groups as the Giant Dwarf Theatre, the Cleveland Street Performance Space and 199 Cleveland Street Theatre.
The site was also known as Transport House, the NSW Branch headquarters of Australian Railway Union (ARU) from 1932 to the late 1960s. The proposed listing states that the "ARU won significant reforms in wages and conditions for thousands of railway workers across NSW. It was at the centre of 'Radical Sydney', through strong links to the movement in the war on Fascism, the Spanish Relief Committee, the Communist Party of Australia and Eveleigh Railway Workshops large workforce, which included Aboriginal and migrant communities, who played a major role in developing Australia's unions and the Australian Labor Party (ALP)".
Prior to the ARU the site was known as Melrose, the home of James Stedman JP, confectioner and philanthropist, whose company won international acclaim.
You can read more about this site on the Heritage NSW's page for the proposed listing on the State heritage Register<https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5067438>. The Heritage Council of NSW has issued a notice to consider the listing of this site on the state heritage register and has asked for submissions on the matter by close of business on March 11, 2024. See how to comments on nominations<https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/heritage/request-a-heritage-listing/nominate-an-item-for-listing-on-the-state-heritage-register/comment-on-nominations> to make a submission.
REDWatch has worked closely with retired members of the rail unions around heritage protection and interpretations across the Eveleigh Railway Workshops and supports this listing.
+Regards,

Geoff
Geoffrey Turnbull
REDWatch Co-Spokesperson
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