RECIPE FOR SUCCESS FEATURE PAGE 8 LISTEN FOR CLEWS REVIEW PAGES 9-10 READ SSH ONLINE SOUTHSYDNEYHERALD.COM.AU FREE PRINTED EDITION EVERY MONTH TO 30,000+ REGULAR READERS Number One Hundred and Ninety Three ~ June 2020 Circulation 16,000 ~ First Published 2002 ALEXANDRIA | BEACONSFIELD | CHIPPENDALE | DARLINGTON | ERSKINEVILLE | EVELEIGH | GLEBE | NEWTOWN | PADDINGTON | POTTS POINT | REDFERN | ROSEBERY | SURRY HILLS | ULTIMO | WATERLOO | WOOLLOOMOOLOO | ZETLAND Station upgrade one step closer URBAN DESIGN SSH REDFERN: The Redfern Station Upgrade – New Southern Concourse proposal from Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is on a month’s exhibition until June 24, 2020. The proposal is a State Significant Infrastructure project carried out under the Transport Access program. The proposal, which links Little Eveleigh and Marian streets, is almost the same as the 2019 TfNSW Option 1. The design of the shared zones on both sides of the line has not been finalised, and Artist impression of the new park – what happens with the towers is still to be determined. Image: NSW Government TfNSW is promising consultation with surrounding residents and Council in finalising the design. The exhibition brings the Waterloo estate – half a plan long-campaigned-for accessibility upgrade at Redfern station a URBAN DESIGN Open space has increased by give some idea of the proposal, included as they were said to step closer with 18 months 4,000 square metres over the but there is no indicative map be in sound condition, but infill of construction expected to GEOFF TURNBULL earlier plan, to 2.57 hectares. showing layout of Waterloo South. development was proposed around commence in late 2020 or early The amended proposal also The community requested them. In its alternative plan, 2021. TfNSW has said it is WATERLOO: The six high-rise includes wider tree-lined streets the release of all information Council proposed retaining and exploring how platform 11 & 12 towers are not covered by the and expanded bike paths. equivalent to that supplied for renovating some of the towers can be added to make the entire Waterloo public housing rezoning The proposal cuts the maximum LAHC’s earlier preferred plan, but as a way to deliver more social station lift accessible. plan lodged by Land and Housing building heights from 40 to 32 this has not happened. As it did housing. Although preferring Among the impacts identified Corporation (LAHC) with the City storeys, compared to Council’s then, by splitting the Metro from demolition and rebuild, LAHC’s in the proposal, 20 parking spaces of Sydney. In an earlier LAHC suggested 13 storeys. Where the estate, LAHC only provides options kept open the possibility of are relocated from Little Eveleigh staging plan, the excluded area is the earlier plan aimed for 6,800 half a plan, making it difficult retention. What happens with the Street to the adjoining North not redeveloped for 13 to 18 years. dwellings across the entire estate, to assess the proposal, as it can towers is still to be determined. Eveleigh site to make way for a The towers are now divided into the new plan is for 6,200. only be considered alongside The LAHC application is being shared zone in Little Eveleigh two new precincts, Waterloo The lodged plan delivers what borders it now, not what assessed by Council. City staff Street with no kerbside parking. Central (Banks, Cook and shops) 3,000 of these dwellings plus might be built in the future at will then prepare a planning The University bus stop zone is and Waterloo North (Marton, the parks, space for businesses, Waterloo Central and North. proposal for consideration moved to the southern side of Turanga, Matavai and Solander). shops and community facilities. Minister Pavey has said by Council and the Central Lawson Street with a Kiss and Social housing will make up the proposal will include “an Sydney Planning Committee. Ride zone added. The lodged proposal, called 30 per cent (900 units). The additional 100 new social housing The community will see the A larger shared zone is Waterloo South, covers 12.32 balance is private and affordable dwellings in the area”. It is not detail of the proposal, with proposed for Marian Street and hectares or 65 per cent of the housing, but no split is revealed. clear if this refers to only Waterloo its rumoured 10,000 pages of the northern end of Rosehill and total master-planned site. This While LAHC lodged with South, where there will be an reports, when the staff proposal Cornwallis streets where 16 street area includes 749 existing public Council sometime mid-May, increase of 151 social housing is presented to a Council parking places will be removed housing units, consisting of all the the first details became public units, or if this sets an estate- committee in several months’ and not replaced on the basis that walk-ups and the mid-rises within only when Council posted some wide target increase to 2,112. time. If supported, Council will there is alternative street parking the estate. The area covered by the high-level details on its website Before any redevelopment of seek a gateway determination available nearby. rezoning application also includes late on Friday May 29. The the towers, there would be 2,163 from the NSW government for Footpath widening is proposed all 125 privately owned dwellings Sunday Telegraph carried the social housing units – 900 in public consultation, which is for Ivy Street to take students and the commercial property. government information drop Waterloo South and 1,263 in the when the community can have heading to Sydney University. The key feature of Waterloo on May 31 online, behind a existing high-rises. Thirty per cent its say. Council will lead the Gibbons Street also receives a South is two promised parks, paywall and inaccessible to the of the proposed 6,200 would only community consultation. S footpath widening around the including a central park adjacent majority of affected tenants. deliver 1,860 social housing units. bus stops as well as a station to the new Metro station, similar The Waterloo Communities Plus In the 2011 redevelopment Geoff Turnbull is a co-spokesperson Kiss and Drop zone to the south to that requested by Council. website now provides visuals that proposal, the towers were not for REDWatch. of the bus zones. Continued on page 2 2 NEWS JUNE 2020 ISSN 2652-4538 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Quarantine routine – Adam, Virginia and August Raglan Street, Waterloo. The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the HEALTH views of the Uniting Church. ANNA NORTH NEWS [email protected] Phone Lyn 0400 008 338 WE are united but isolated. I am safe in the home I am so lucky ADVERTISING [email protected] to have, but when I go out to shop or just to walk, I am acutely MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 3288 aware of a sneeze here, a cough Redfern NSW 2016 there. I am scandalised by stories LETTERS of parties on Bondi Beach and Please send letters and emails to: disgusted by stories of hoarding The South Sydney Herald. and fighting in supermarket Email: [email protected] Supply sender name and suburb. aisles. I feel old and cranky. Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. Asking questions and listening FOUNDING EDITOR to others talk about their hopes, Trevor Davies (25.5.1956 – 14.6.2011) fears and coping strategies has MANAGING EDITOR given me space from my own Marjorie Lewis-Jones judgements and reminded me how ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR lucky I am to live in Waterloo, Andrew Collis a strong and true community. NEWS EDITOR Lyn Turnbull This month I spoke with ASSISTANT EDITOR Adam, Virginia and August. Louisa Dyce ARTS & FESTIVALS Adam Adam at Counterpoint Community Services in Waterloo Photo: Andrew Collis Anna North When the bars and restaurants BOOKS Catherine De Mayo were closed I fully realised the life and how grateful I am to live I work as a production designer here are low and the situation EDUCATION severity of the situation. I have in a country with good healthcare. in the film and TV industry. The is somewhat under control. Melinda Kearns learnt to enjoy my own company The coronavirus has forced production I was working on We had some cool things lined ENVIRONMENT more while doing activities that I people to reassess their lives and closed for an eight-week hiatus up for the school holidays so Miriam Pepper relish such as reading, walking, garner a greater appreciation mid-March but we now know it is it’s disappointing to be missing HUMAN AFFAIRS Brittany Johnson cooking and learning Spanish. for the little things, such as unlikely that the show will start out on those activities but, FAITH I am still going to work four saying hello and hugging back up again for some time. from what my son tells me, he’s Dorothy McRae-McMahon days a week working the same friends on the street or just I am uncertain whether I will be happy staying at home chilling HEALTH hours. However, I no longer wake going to a dinner party. able to access any of the stimulus out with me and the dog. He is Megan Weier up at 5.30am for the gym, as it’s package because of the freelance happy doing home-school on LEGAL & FOOD Maidie Wood closed! I wake up a bit later and go Virginia and August nature of my work and the the computer and understands LOCALS for a walk instead.