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Submitted | first-name | support | concern | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | |
2026-07-12 15:09:30 +02:00 | Tienkie | No I do not | All of the above | Predetermination of outcomes by officials | According to reports, CocT wants to bypass the Heritage Law, models do not depict the true scale, many jobs will be lost and it will be a threat to level 1 trauma access at Vincent Paloti hospital |
2026-07-12 13:44:22 +02:00 | Anta | No I do not | Heritage process is incomplete & misapplied | ||
2026-07-12 11:48:18 +02:00 | Pamela | No I do not | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | ||
2026-07-10 21:21:34 +02:00 | Ama | No I do not | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | ||
2026-07-10 16:47:24 +02:00 | Etienne | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of public land and open space | |
2026-07-10 05:47:06 +02:00 | Jacomien | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-10 04:14:02 +02:00 | Nicole | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | Where else in the world do we have the configuration of an authentic village within a large city, offering organic living . More over horses are important to our mental, psychological and physical health. It should be preserve by any cost. Oude Molen needs support to refresh the existing buildings. | |
2026-07-09 20:43:21 +02:00 | Barbara | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-09 15:52:28 +02:00 | Stella | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-09 14:05:20 +02:00 | Michael | No I do not | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | ||
2026-07-09 13:57:17 +02:00 | P | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | 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. The eco gardens and the work they do is important!!! | |
2026-07-08 12:54:16 +02:00 | Natheefah | No I do not | Loss of public land and open space | ||
2026-07-08 11:43:37 +02:00 | Jen | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight | |
2026-07-07 21:46:26 +02:00 | Ines | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | ||
2026-07-07 20:17:22 +02:00 | Jeandre | No I do not | Loss of public land and open space | ||
2026-07-07 17:27:02 +02:00 | Cathryn | No I do not | Unverified, non-binding affordable housing claims | As a new home owner in Pinelands, I strongly object to the densification of limited remaining green areas, due to ecological and social importance of green spaces in city planning. | |
2026-07-07 12:59:42 +02:00 | Dr. Adele | No I do not | All of the above | Procedural flaws, misleading visuals & constrained public oversight | There are severa; issues at play here and need to be addressed COMPLETELY before any negotions proceed! 1) Unlawful Heritage Procedural Bypassing: 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. 2) Erasure of Living Heritage: 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. 3) 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. 4) 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. 5) 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. |
2026-07-07 12:57:38 +02:00 | Cornelia | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | Ecosystem: Pushing high-density concrete blocks will permanently displace a 30-year-old self-sustaining village of tenants providing invaluable services of high public value, much of it free or low cost, including the Robin Trust medical care, two holistic schools, eco-gardens, and equestrian therapy facilities for disabled children. |
2026-07-07 12:37:12 +02:00 | Mark | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | The existing community at Oude Molen provides essential care, educational, therapeutic, and cultural services that depend entirely on the tranquil, semi-rural character of the site. These activities are a direct continuation of the 130-year-old institutional “continuity of purpose” belonging to the surrounding Valkenberg therapeutic landscape, which historically utilized land-based care and agricultural rehabilitation. Displacing the Robin Trust, the holistic schools, the eco-gardens, and the equestrian therapy facilities destroys a functioning social ecosystem that delivers immense public value. These living heritage resources have been completely excluded from the project’s social impact considerations |
2026-07-07 10:37:44 +02:00 | Les | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | ||
2026-07-06 15:37:14 +02:00 | Benjamin | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-06 15:32:11 +02:00 | Ted | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | |
2026-07-06 13:54:17 +02:00 | Carol | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | The City is on a mission to destroy all the green belt/open space around Pinelands - and to fill it with inappropriate SUPER HIGH-density developments. The River Club was a debacle in public participation for years. Currently Oude Molen and King David Mowbray are going through public participation, with the same kind of debacle of Super-High density development plans. "in-fill development is a euphemism for "overkill" - with plans of units greater than Pinelands itself currently has. OudeMolen provides jobs and community services KDM and Clyde socce fields both have valuable purposes - and vital green spaces. The City is after rates and income - at the cost of these spaces ad their values to community, physical, and mental. These developments are playing into the hands of greedy developers who want HUGE profits - no matter what! and who don't care about the impact it creates in the loss of green space, ridiculous traffic congestion of piling 'new suburbs" into small areas and roads that weren't designed to cope with this. Density, density, density - Cape Town is heading for "sick City" syndrome 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 services of high public value, much of it free or low cost, including the Robin Trust medical care, two holistic schools, eco-gardens, and equestrian therapy facilities for disabled children. | |
2026-07-06 13:00:05 +02:00 | Yvonne | No I do not | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity | ||
2026-07-06 06:58:22 +02:00 | Damien | No I do not | All of the above | Cumulative development pressure on local infrastructure | The traffic congestion over the past years has already made travelling from and to pinelands a logistical nightmare. The loss of this beautiful green space, with historic importance to yet another shopping, business and residential complex is suffocating. Pinelands was a fairly quiet suburb, central but still on the outskirts of the city. With all this new development in process and proposed, this will now be completely stifled. |
2026-07-06 06:30:03 +02:00 | Glenda | No I do not | All of the above | Loss of existing community ecosystem & historical continuity |
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.