Initially, three City-owned properties in Wetton, Ottery and Silvertown were allocated for development and now a fourth, in Rugby, is also scheduled for development.
The Rugby property is situated off Koeberg Road on the corner of Max and Zalkin Roads and is well-suited to building affordable housing. About 180 bachelor and one-bedroom sectional title homes will be built on the site. The basic price for the smaller, 30sq m bachelor units will be R145k and the one-bedroom homes will sell at R230k.
Approval from the authorities must be obtained before construction on site can commence and marketing can begin and rezoning applications are being prepared for submission to Council.
"The development of the first three properties allocated to Nedbank is progressing as planned. Environmental assessment studies are underway at the Wetton and Ottery sites and rezoning and subdivision applications are being submitted. Silvertown is awaiting a decision regarding the extent to which the site must undergo an environmental impact assessment," says Councillor Shehaam Sims, the City's Mayoral Committee member for housing.
Marketing of the first tract of land is expected to start in May next year and construction is set to start in July 2010.
Wetton is situated in an existing residential area near the intersection with Landsdowne Road and the Ottery Shopping Mall and is accessed from Old Strandfontein Road. It is within walking distance of both the Ottery and Wetton railway stations.
The land is expected to accommodate 616 units – 360 of which will be affordable housing units, with the remaining 256 being marketed as open market units. The affordable units cost from R145k for a bachelor apartment and R230k for a one-bedroom unit.
The open market unit prices will range from R450k to around R750k and will comprise two and three storey walk-up, sectional title units. A commercial/retail facility will also be developed on the site.
Ottery is two blocks from the Wetton site, two blocks along Old Strandfontein Road. This development comprises 265 open-market homes costing from R450k to around R750k. The configuration will be two and three storey walk-up, sectional title units, as well as some single residential duplexes for the more expensive, open market units.
Silvertown is situated in the existing residential area of Silvertown near the Vanguard Road/ Settlersway on and off ramp from the N2. It is opposite the Vygekraal Sports Centre and 3,5km from Rondebosch East, Mowbray and Pinelands. Eight Duplex homes of approximately 75sq m are envisaged, costing about R750k.
For more information contact Manie Annandale on 011 294 6647 or send an email.
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A few years back the City Council planned to construct low-cost housing on this site. The announcement caused an uproar among residents in the area and a public meeting was called at the Milnerton library. The meeting was very well attended and everyone present recorded their objection and total rejection of the plan. This resulted in Council calling on the meeting to establish a working group of residents to negotiate an alternative and acceptable plan with Council. The working group had several meetings with Council and eventually Council presented a revised plan. The original plan did not take into consideration the large servitude which crosses the property. The working group and Council reached an agreement on the new plan with a reduced number of units, the majority of which would have been sold on a freehold basis. Sectional title sales were never ever envisaged.
Due to financial constraints the development was, however, placed on the back-burner. The article on your website is the first indication I have seen of the intention to once again plan a development on the site. I find it disturbing that the commercial world is fully aware of the planned project whilst residents in the area are kept totally in the dark.
Low-cost housing has been renamed "affordable housing". This type of housing does not blend at all with the existing housing in the vicinity. If the project is approved it will have a major detrimental effect on the value of surrounding properties.
I would suggest that whoever the developers are, they request Council to provide them with the revised plans for the original development which was agreed to by the working group. They, and Council, can be sure that there will be massive public opposition to the planned development as published in the Property24 article. - S.A. BEYERS
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