What is the AHCs response to the RWA Built Environment Plan?
A. The community has eagerly awaited the AHC s response to the Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) Built Environment Plan. The complex and confusing nature of the RWA document warranted careful and deliberate consideration before the AHC could respond. To decipher the RWA document the AHC sought the support and advice of a team of lawyers, planners and the Pemulwuy Taskforce. Regrettably, Minister Sartor has not changed his mind about reducing the number of Aboriginal families who could live back on Aboriginal owned land in Redfern. Clearly the RWA Built Environment Plan is the tool the Minister intends to use to fulfil his program to limit Aboriginal housing on the Block. Specifically, the RWA Plan proposes to significant increase residential density in every other area around Redfern railway station, except on Aboriginal owned land. In most cases allowable residential is triple and in some seven times the original densities, while on Aboriginal land residential density is halved. The im
