City commences with plan for potential development around the Strandfontein Pavilion area

This week, Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews, visited the Standfontein Pavilion to meet with some community stakeholders. Alderman Andrews was accompanied by subject experts from the City’s Urban Planning and Coastal Management departments, where they provided an overview of the phases of this planning project and the vision for the area.

‘It was important for me to go out to the Standfontein Pavilion this week to meet key members of the community so that I could personally explain to them what the process of this planning project will entail. I also wanted to assure all that this much anticipated project will be inclusive and participatory. We will keep the community informed of each step. One of the mechanisms we will put in place is to establish a key external stakeholder organisation group, which will be led by the local ward councillor, Elton Jantjies. I want the community to know that they will be kept up to date on every aspect of this project,’ said the City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews.

A professional team is being appointed to investigate the development options for this area. This team will also be responsible for determining the water and sewage capacity in the area and will conduct a traffic study along and at the intersection of Baden Powell Drive and Old Strandfontein Roads. These aspects form part of the initial ground work, which will produce the data needed to prepare some possible development options for the Standfontein Pavilion and surrounding area.

The purpose of these studies is to identify and investigate publicly and privately driven planned and proposed development projects that will impact on the area. The upgrading of existing facilities and infrastructure, as well as those relating to the development of new infrastructure, will be investigated.

‘Once these investigations and assessments of the area have been done, the appointed consultants will guide our urban planning and coastal management professionals on what is financially viable. Next we will develop a plan that includes development parameters. This plan will be put out to the open market, similar to the process that was followed for the Big Bay beachfront, where developers had to complete their work within the framework determined by the City of Cape Town,’ said Alderman Andrews.

First off, the City and the consultants will need to assess and interrogate all available information in order to propose an optimal sustainable development area. The development parameters that will be considered in the initial design plan will include factors such as the minimum and maximum development capacity, land use rules for the area, and the amount of space that can be used for residential and commercial development.

‘I want to add that the City is committed to optimising the coastal opportunities for this community and where possible, coastal nodal development that will more meaningfully connect previously disadvantaged communities to the coastline. This commitment is reflected in the City’s spatial policy guideline, namely the Spatial District Plan for the region,’ said Alderman Andrews.

Apart from the City’s identification of the Strandfontein coastal resort area as a future coastal urban node in its planning policies, other planning work has also occurred, which relates to future planning for this area. This includes:

• the assessment of, and plans for the rehabilitation of the Fisherman’s Lane area and Strandfontein Pavilion area, and

• the assessment of the functionality (and integrity) of existing infrastructure at the Strandfontein resort

The next communication update on this project will be provided after the professional team has provided the City with feedback.

Caption 2: (L-R) Alderman Eddie Andrews; Andre Arendse and Wiseman Ruiters from Ratepayers Forum and Economic Development (RAFED); Kier Hennessey ,Urban Planning and Design, City of Cape Town and Gregg Oelofse, Coastal Management, City of Cape Town.

Caption 3: (L-R) Kier Hennessey, Gregg Oelofse and local Ward Councillor, Elton Jantjies

Source: City Of Cape Town

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