Table View residents who want to object to the building of a five-storey development in the area have until Tuesday October 4 to comment.
The are plans to consolidate Erfs 10915 and 10916 at 10 Arnold Road and 9 Gie Road, Table View.
The application is proposing the building of a five-storey building with 35 flats.
FJC Consulting Town Planners and Land Surveyors applied for the new development on behalf of their client East African Properties (Pty) Ltd.
However, some residents and civic organisations in Table View are not entirely happy about this proposed new development.
The Greater Table View Action Forum (GTAF) opposed the application in March last year. However, at its meeting on Tuesday September 6 the city’s municipal planning tribunal gave the project the green light.
The GTAF is unhappy that the application does not appear to have an on-site waste water treatment plant. The forum fears that this will overload already struggling sewerage infrastructure in the town.
Resident Philippe Roche said the sewerage and water infrastructure in the area was designed with a single dwelling in mind, and it is blocking, failing and busting everywhere. He said all the new complexes in the area are creating the problem.
“Potsdam is broken. It is overloaded by some 15 megalitres daily and spews out raw sewage weekly into the Diep River and into the Rietvlei, and by default into the Milnerton Lagoon and the ocean. Do the Potsdam upgrades that were stated and studied in 2012 and do them properly, there won’t be objections,” said Mr Roche.
However, deputy Mayor and Mayoral committee member for spatial planning and environment, Eddie Andrews said the applicant provided for an on-site private treatment plant.
“In terms of the land use planning process, there is no requirement for a separate application type insofar the proposed treatment plant is a subsidiary and supportive function to serve a single consolidated site,” said Mr Andrews.
Mr Roche is also concerned about the increase in traffic on that busy part of town. He said the streets in the area are overloaded and falling apart because they were not made for heavy traffic.
Mr Roche adds that they need more schools if the aggressive densification is to continue.
“The amount of schools in the area is already short of some three to four thousand seats as of 2019, but they just keep building. This is not right and will create issues down the line,” said Mr Roche.
The Cape Argus reports that East African Properties say they are being victimised in Table View because they are “black developers.”
However, Mr Roche said they have no issues with East African Properties coming to Table View and that every single investor is welcomed.
