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Submitted | first-name | support | concern | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-07-10 16:45:42 +02:00 | Etienne | No I do not | All of the above | Fabricated Transport Infrastructure | As with Conradie development, council said there wouldn’t be an impact on traffic and sewage. Well they have lied and just don’t care. No further upgrades to any infrastructure including water supply which is already decreased in the Pinelands & Thornton areas. City of Cape Town is already incapable of improving travel into the city yet they add more housing on the outskirts and don’t add more housing in Culemborg,District Six, Tafelberg etc. |
2026-07-10 14:39:43 +02:00 | Meg | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | |
2026-07-09 15:49:30 +02:00 | Stella | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | |
2026-07-09 10:44:39 +02:00 | Ibtisaam | No I do not | Loss of Public Asset | A golf course on public land is de facto privatisation. All golf courses should be converted into public housing. | |
2026-07-08 08:25:10 +02:00 | Sandra | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | There is wasted government land right next to the Mowbray Golf Course such as the old cooling towers and this land should be utilized 1st, before any other. None of the infrastructure can cope with the densification. It is already over capacity. |
2026-07-07 22:03:52 +02:00 | claudette | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | |
2026-07-07 20:32:36 +02:00 | Johannie | No I do not | Loss of Public Asset | ||
2026-07-07 20:28:44 +02:00 | Rudi | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | |
2026-07-06 22:29:18 +02:00 | Lindsay | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | We should keep the green areas in Cape Town and not continually develop on them! There are better things to do with these spaces like create parks and natural vegetation area that the public can use. Development on this land for business and residential use will add traffic and congestion to roads that have not been built for this many cars. |
2026-07-06 17:45:12 +02:00 | Carl | No I do not | Fabricated Transport Infrastructure | I agree with all the comments above , and strongly disagree with the project proposal | |
2026-07-06 17:05:46 +02:00 | Denise | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | What a disater it would be to the area. Mostly retired people living in this peaceful area. |
2026-07-06 17:05:43 +02:00 | Denise | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | What a disater it would be to the area. Mostly retired people living in this peaceful area. |
2026-07-06 16:59:47 +02:00 | Vivienne | No I do not | Fabricated Transport Infrastructure | ||
2026-07-06 14:35:19 +02:00 | Michele | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | We need green lungs to preserve our natural environment. This proposed densification would remove a valuable green area. Pinelands already suffers with extremely low water pressure and huge traffic congestion. Adding more houses to this already congested area would worsen our traffic problems. |
2026-07-06 14:14:32 +02:00 | Val | No I do not | All of the above | Irreversible Sequence of Environmental & Heritage Approvals | |
2026-07-06 13:46:20 +02:00 | Ulf | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | |
2026-07-06 11:30:04 +02:00 | Richard | No I do not | Loss of Public Asset | The disposal of the golf course land is not in the public interest and would represent a permanent loss of a green space. The procedural handling is unfair as all the economic studies have not been done There has been no infrastructural commitment by PRASA to the project and the surrounding infrastructural cost will be more than the disposal of the land | |
2026-07-06 05:38:39 +02:00 | Janette | No I do not | Severe Sewer & Utility Grid Strains | The proposed density is excessive for this location. At present there are already issues with poor and over-capacity sewerage treatment. | |
2026-07-05 20:28:35 +02:00 | Michelle | No I do not | All of the above | Fabricated Transport Infrastructure | There is no transport infrastructure in an area which is already overwhelmed! |
2026-07-05 20:03:18 +02:00 | Riyaad | No I do not | Other | The Province of Western Cape needs to have a new vision. Instead of cramming new developments into an already congested public transport and sewer framework, the vision should be to develop a new town and/or a city from scratch. There is nothing stopping from creating a new town/city and attracting new businesses there with incentives. You can then build homes, schools, clinics and interlinking transport framework from this new town/city to what we already have. Creating a new development and shoving it into an overburdened framework is asking for trouble down the line. | |
2026-07-05 19:24:22 +02:00 | Alfredo | No I do not | All of the above | Severe Sewer & Utility Grid Strains | There is absolutely no support for this infrastructure and the promise of any support is not usually carried out after the fact. It is also impossible to solve this problem as the area is already overwhelmed. |
2026-07-05 19:02:25 +02:00 | Jacques | No I do not | The Information Blackout | ||
2026-07-05 18:33:20 +02:00 | Chris | No I do not | Loss of Public Asset | ||
2026-07-05 12:06:57 +02:00 | Michele | Not fully | All of the above | Procedural Unfairness & Retroactive Approvals | It appears that this has been an attempt to push through a development without transparency and engagement with the community. And likely to cause even more traffic gridlock in Pinelands during rush hour. At the same time there is a bracket of income earners for whom owning property in Cape Town is out of reach. If this development happened in the true spirit of the original garden city ethos and with proper planning and consideration of all environmental and infrastructural matters… and transparency at every step, ensuring that no corruption happens either in development tenders and sale of property… then I might support the project. If it is rushed through for expediency and without thought, then I would not support this at all. |
2026-07-04 14:49:07 +02:00 | Derek | No I do not | Fabricated Transport Infrastructure | There is no economically viable way to to provide public transport to the proposed housing development. A rail link is not only impractical, but it will require large scale property acquisitions and infrastructural costs. It is not easily accessible to any existing rail network. The alternative clogs the existing N2 road leading in and out of the city with additional taxis, busses or cars on a route already carrying so much traffic that the peak travel times are already far too lenghty. | |
2026-07-04 09:27:54 +02:00 | Cedric | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | |
2026-07-04 06:34:39 +02:00 | Azraa | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural Unfairness & Retroactive Approvals | I object to the procedural irregularities defining this process. Pushing through Council Resolution C39/05/26 on 27 May 2026 to retroactively include Portion B right as the public participation phase commenced undermines the fairness of the process under PAJA. The public is being asked to comment on an unstable, rushed legislative framework. Furthermore, communities of colour will be impacted, as usual. The golf course and the land it occupies provide recreational, aesthetic, and environmental benefits to a diverse community with a substantial Black and Coloured population in the direct surroundings of the golf course. Take this redevelopment to Constantia. |
2026-07-03 17:02:28 +02:00 | Barbara | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | |
2026-07-03 15:22:30 +02:00 | Ronald | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | The DA (City of Cape Town ) are not been honest ot truthful again. Come clean and do the right thing |
2026-07-03 15:22:30 +02:00 | Ronald | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of Public Asset | The DA (City of Cape Town ) are not been honest ot truthful again. Come clean and do the right thing |
The City maintains that the redevelopment process is entirely “procedurally sound” following the adoption of Council Resolution C39/05/26 on 27 May 2026. Proponents argue that the draft concept represents a vital step toward spatial justice, turning an exclusive recreational area into a vibrant, high-density precinct with 8,600 homes (minimum 30% social housing). They assert that technical studies, transit coordination, and environmental impact assessments will be dealt with thoroughly in the subsequent legislative phases after the land disposal principle is approved.
Opponents argue that the City is executing an administrative “bait-and-switch.” Asking the public to approve an irreversible public asset disposal while keeping essential technical studies (valuations, sewer metrics, and TIAs) hidden behind PAIA walls violates the basic tenets of fair administrative action under PAJA. Furthermore, the revelation that PRASA has zero alignment with the City’s transit claims proves that the project’s planning is prematurely optimised. The community insists that the public participation process must be halted and restarted only when all baseline evidence is public and the legal authorisations are genuinely transparent.