From geoff at turnbulls-au.com Wed Mar 14 10:19:43 2018 From: geoff at turnbulls-au.com (Geoff Turnbull) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:19:43 +1100 Subject: [Lift Redfern] Human Services and Redfern Station Message-ID: <000801d3bb21$c5a66e50$50f34af0$@turnbulls-au.com> Dear REDWatch Members, Supporters and Agencies Human Service Plan Input The second meeting to help formulate of a Waterloo Human Services Plan is happening on Tuesday 20 March 2018. If you are a human service provider active in Waterloo and have not received an invite or RSVPed please email hsplanwaterloo at facs.nsw.gov.au . This meeting is the opportunity for agencies to put on the table what they want a human services plan and its mechanisms to achieve. The first meeting was very top down setting out the current FACS human services framework, this meeting is supposed to be to get the bottom up input into the plan and a third in April will aim to try and bring top and bottom together. Given the air gap that is often between the top and the those working at the local level this will be no easy task. We have to push hard to make sure we do not have another "plan" that does not address the areas human services issues - see Human Services in Redfern and Waterloo: A potted history listing of plans, interventions, activities, consultations and reports . REDWatch has pushed for this Human Services Plan to try and address the systemic problems that come from government concentrating people with complex needs in public housing without adequate joined up supports. We want to see the people living and working in Waterloo getting the best possible human service support for themselves, their clients or neighbours. REDWatch has placed on its website some examples of the kind of problems we want to see addressed (Human Service Plan Goals from REDWatch Perspective ) but this creating an agenda will only work if people turn up with their own stories of what they want to see fixed, addressed or fine-tuned. We appreciate there is reluctance in some areas, given the long history of human service interventions that have gone nowhere, to get involved in this process. From REDWatch perspective we encourage you to give it another shot and to take this opportunity to name the problems that have to be addressed if current and future public tenants are to receive the responsive support they need. In discussions with LAHC it has been recognised that the human service plan also needs to hear from community groups, tenants and those that live in the area. LAHC will be contacting some identified people with an active interest directly - if you want to be part of this conversation or make an input then email hsplanwaterloo at facs.nsw.gov.au . REDWatch is considering having a human services meeting in May and discussions are underway about how the NAB and tenants more broadly might feed into the proposed plan. One of the problems that has been flagged is the importance for mechanisms within government departments so that front line workers can also feed into the process and help close the gap between senior officials and those at the "coal face". A good step in this direction is the new Redfern Waterloo Healthy Living Link Worker. Kristian will operate out of the Factory Community Centre on Wednesday's and his job is to help people access services across the Sydney Local Health District silos and to flag issues back into SLHD. You can contact Krisitian by email on Kristian.Reyes at health.nsw.gov.au . Also on health the second Waterloo Health Forum on Building a Healthy and Resilient Community will be held on Friday 4th May from 8.30-2pm at the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), 166-180 George St Redfern. If you are interested in attending please email SLHD-Planning at health.nsw.gov.au by the 27th April, 2018. Redfern Station Update On Thursday 1 March, REDWatch had a meeting with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) about Redfern Station. The two main things that were discussed were: The upgrade of access to the platforms at Redfern: There was a lot of discussion about the issues around Redfern Station. The preferred option from the 2010 gateway project was used to discuss the kind of solution being considered. This option is in the public domain after the Lift Redfern Campaign successful made an application for the release of many studies on Redfern Station. You can see these Redfern Station tab on the REDWatch website. The case study used in the discussion on Thursday as indicative was Redfern Station Upgrade - 2009 Cox Proposed Revised Concept Design Extract . What has changed since 2009, the meeting was told was that the increase in usage would mean that the Lawson Street concourse would continue to be used in addition to the proposed new concourse although lifts would be placed only on the new concourse due to the problems of accessing lifts on Lawson Street. IN 2024 when the Metro line starts there will be two lines that will not be in use at Redfern Station which may provide some flexibility for construction of the new station access. It is very early days in the current investigation and this was the first meeting TfNSW has held with local stakeholders. They are proposing future meetings as they further their investigations and put together a case for funding the upgrade. The Moving of the Gibbons street Entrance: This change has come as a bit of a shock to some of those present especially those from Alexandria as TfNSW did not consult widely about this change and work is already starting. The entrance change is to get around the current dangerous waiting area outside the station on Gibbons Street. The new entrance / exit will be onto the corner of Lawson and Gibbons and will include a bike lockup and a larger number of entrance gates. Since the REDWatch meeting TfNSW has placed information and a number of graphics shown at the REDWatch meeting on their website at https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/current-projects/redfern-station-i mprovement-works. The new exit will link to the at grade disability access to the ATP down Gibbons Street to the ATP. However you still need to be able to get off the platform as the platform 6&7 lift looks like the only one that will be in existence for quite some time. Many issues covered in REDWatch's last list of issues for discussion were not addressed. These included the building proposed above the Eastern Suburbs railway line on Platforms 11 & 12, the registration of Interest process, Mirvac's proposal for a southern concourse and what happens at the station end of North Eveleigh. The SMH of 2 March reported on a Major Google - Mirvac proposal being considered at North Eveleigh as an unsolicited proposal - Ambitious secret plan to create Sydney's Silicon Valley . This came on top of a Chanel 7 announcement reported in the Australian of March 1 that they would be relocating staff to Media City at ATP. Both are likely to bring more people to Redfern Station. Transport has indicated that it want to have further conversations with residents about Redfern Station and North Eveleigh in the future and REDWatch will work with TfNSW to try and ensure that their community engagement is much more extensive than it has been in the past. The South Sydney Herald attended the REDWatch meeting and have run the following story in their March 2018 issue- Still no plan for Redfern station upgrade Regards, Geoff Geoffrey Turnbull REDWatch Co-Spokesperson Ph Wk: (02) 8004 1490 Mob: 0418 457 392 email: mail at redwatch.org.au web: www.redwatch.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: