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Submitted | first-name | support | concern | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-08-02 21:19:56 +02:00 | H. | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | ||
2026-08-02 11:02:45 +02:00 | Marilyn | No I do not | All of the above | Environmental and ecological threats to the Black River wetland | |
2026-07-31 07:52:46 +02:00 | Aneeka | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight | |
2026-07-20 11:17:12 +02:00 | Charl | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight | |
2026-07-16 20:49:06 +02:00 | jade | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | ||
2026-07-16 15:19:29 +02:00 | Danielle | No I do not | Environmental and ecological threats to the Black River wetland | Development of land will interfere with South Africa’s biodiversity and may very well impact the lives of wildlife that currently inhabit the land such as bird species and insects. We need these animals to survive and maintain our beautiful environment that we live in. The 13-hectare site directly borders the sensitive Black River corridor and wetland system. Despite the intense scale and density of a five-storey proposal, no independent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been conducted. The site is a documented habitat for protected species, including the endangered Western Leopard Toad. Pushing this rezoning through without evaluating the cumulative ecological impacts alongside neighboring mega-developments violates basic environmental sustainability principles. | |
2026-07-15 14:55:21 +02:00 | Carina | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-15 13:49:51 +02:00 | Stella | No I do not | All of the above | Predetermination of outcomes by officials | |
2026-07-14 21:11:49 +02:00 | liezel | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | Time to replace the CT municipal leadership with integrity. | |
2026-07-14 11:34:23 +02:00 | Michel | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight | |
2026-07-14 08:07:47 +02:00 | Thys | No I do not | Loss of public land and open space | ||
2026-07-13 17:29:59 +02:00 | Drummond | Yes I do | Heritage process is incomplete & misapplied | ||
2026-07-13 15:13:59 +02:00 | Mada | No I do not | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | ||
2026-07-13 15:12:31 +02:00 | Marne | No I do not | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | ||
2026-07-12 22:53:35 +02:00 | Pietet | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight |
Undoing Spatial Apartheid: Proponents argue that Oude Molen represents a massive opportunity to utilize well-located, under-densified public land near economic centers to bring working-class families closer to the city and undo historical spatial segregation.
Social and Affordable Housing Delivery: The Western Cape Government highlights the proposed 34% allocation for social and affordable housing units as a major victory for addressing Cape Town’s acute housing crisis.
Economic Stimulus & Job Creation: Pushing forward with mixed-use spaces, commercial offices, and retail infrastructure will stimulate the local economy, bring financial investment into the area, and create thousands of direct construction and service jobs.
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD): Planners argue that maximizing residential density along the urban transport corridor (adjacent to key hospital and rail hubs) reduces urban sprawl and builds an efficient, sustainable city layout.
Unlawful Heritage Procedural Bypassing: Opponents argue it is completely unlawful to push for land use and rezoning approvals while the legally mandated Heritage Impact Assessment stands officially rejected by Heritage Western Cape for violating the NHRA.
Erasure of Living Heritage: Critics point out that the developers use a narrow, outdated definition of heritage that ignores “horizontal” community transmission and mistakes “archival silence” (the colonial omission of marginalized group records) for an absence of living culture and First Nations history.
Destruction of a Fragile Social Ecosystem: Pushing high-density concrete blocks will permanently displace a 30-year-old self-sustaining village of tenants providing invaluable, free public services, including the Robin Trust medical care, two holistic schools, eco-gardens, and equestrian therapy facilities for disabled children.
Unenforceable Affordable Housing Claims: Financial fine print within the framework indicates that the “one-third affordable housing” pledge is non-binding and completely contingent on future private developer financial feasibility study outcomes.
Misleading Master Plans & Constrained Oversight: While the development framework fixes maximum height and bulk parameters, the illustrations provided to the public fail to depict these maximums, masking the true density. Once these land-use parameters are approved, subsequent processes are entirely constrained within those maxima, leaving the public with severely limited scope to influence or alter the scale of development at later stages.