A long-awaited upgrade of Hout Bay's Imizamo Yethu informal settlement could start in 18 months, the Good Hope sub-council has heard.
Hout Bay ward councillor Marga Haywood told the meeting on Thursday that following successful community meetings this week to consider a final development plan for the area, bulldozers could be expected to move in and raze current informal housing to make way for two-storey flats, schools and a clinic.
However, upgrade plans for Hangberg still required a lot of attention, she said.
Haywood came under fire shortly after being elected early last year for suggesting that people be forced to move out of Imizamo Yethu as the only solution to overcrowding and health hazards in the area.
ANC councillor John Mokoena told the sub-council meeting on Thursday that even though upgrades were on the cards for the impoverished communities of Hout Bay, he was still concerned that poor and affluent parts of the area had not been well integrated.
Mokoena mooted a development framework for achieving this and got the support of sub-council chairman JP Smith, who said integration needed to happen.
As Smith took stock of their work, after being in office exactly two years, he reported that the sub-council had handled more than 5 000 service delivery and operational complaints, but that a backlog of at least 1 000 more e-mailed queries still needed attention.
Ward 54 councillor Belinda Walker said the Good Hope sub-council was a complex one to manage because the wants and needs of both business and residents had to be taken into account.
A number of public areas also needed to be managed.
Smith said the sub-council would continue to focus on the upgrade of four major public open areas: Greenmarket Square, the Grand Parade, St George's Mall and the station deck, as these would all be vital spaces for the 2010 World Cup.
The city would spend R2-million on upgrades to the toilets on Greenmarket Square and road closures around the area.
While lots more work still needed to be done to the station deck, Smith said there had already been dramatic improvements.
From an estimated 15 muggings reported daily on the deck, Smith said that, at most, about two such incidents were now reported every fortnight.
The sub-council would continue to clamp down on the sex industry, especially along the Atlantic seaboard. They had already revoked the business licence of one escort agency and the sub-council was in the process of cancelling another.
Sub-council manager Marius Coetsee reported that, overall, capital spending of that sub-council had improved significantly.
Ward 54 in the Good Hope sub-council managed a 94.8 percent spend. The ward encompasses the Atlantic seaboard from Mouille Point to Fresnaye.
Ward 77, which includes the CBD, Foreshore, Tamboerskloof and other City Bowl suburbs, had reached 51.5 percent capital spend, with R110 000 allocated for consultants' fees for the Greenmarket Square upgrade, to be rolled over to the next financial year. - Cape Argus
Hout Bay ward councillor Marga Haywood told the meeting on Thursday that following successful community meetings this week to consider a final development plan for the area, bulldozers could be expected to move in and raze current informal housing to make way for two-storey flats, schools and a clinic.
However, upgrade plans for Hangberg still required a lot of attention, she said.
| ...the sub-council had handled more than 5 000 service delivery and operational complaints |
ANC councillor John Mokoena told the sub-council meeting on Thursday that even though upgrades were on the cards for the impoverished communities of Hout Bay, he was still concerned that poor and affluent parts of the area had not been well integrated.
Mokoena mooted a development framework for achieving this and got the support of sub-council chairman JP Smith, who said integration needed to happen.
As Smith took stock of their work, after being in office exactly two years, he reported that the sub-council had handled more than 5 000 service delivery and operational complaints, but that a backlog of at least 1 000 more e-mailed queries still needed attention.
Ward 54 councillor Belinda Walker said the Good Hope sub-council was a complex one to manage because the wants and needs of both business and residents had to be taken into account.
| The sub-council would continue to clamp down on the sex industry |
Smith said the sub-council would continue to focus on the upgrade of four major public open areas: Greenmarket Square, the Grand Parade, St George's Mall and the station deck, as these would all be vital spaces for the 2010 World Cup.
The city would spend R2-million on upgrades to the toilets on Greenmarket Square and road closures around the area.
While lots more work still needed to be done to the station deck, Smith said there had already been dramatic improvements.
From an estimated 15 muggings reported daily on the deck, Smith said that, at most, about two such incidents were now reported every fortnight.
The sub-council would continue to clamp down on the sex industry, especially along the Atlantic seaboard. They had already revoked the business licence of one escort agency and the sub-council was in the process of cancelling another.
Sub-council manager Marius Coetsee reported that, overall, capital spending of that sub-council had improved significantly.
Ward 54 in the Good Hope sub-council managed a 94.8 percent spend. The ward encompasses the Atlantic seaboard from Mouille Point to Fresnaye.
Ward 77, which includes the CBD, Foreshore, Tamboerskloof and other City Bowl suburbs, had reached 51.5 percent capital spend, with R110 000 allocated for consultants' fees for the Greenmarket Square upgrade, to be rolled over to the next financial year. - Cape Argus
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