April 18th, 2013  It may be that the MEC – and can this be the same Robin Carlisle who favours the construction of a huge toll plaza and office block on Chapman’s Peak Drive? – has bitten off more than he can chew.
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April 15th, 2013  South African environmental campaigner Jonathan Deal was today awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his work in the fight against hydraulic fracturing in the Karoo.
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April 3rd, 2013  The Durbanville Community Forum has vowed to fight the state’s decision to approve development on “historic” farmland outside the urban edge.
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March 11th, 2013  This proposal is a logical absurdity and is a clear case of putting the cart before the horse. Land Use Approvals are predicated on the specific Environmental Authorisation (EA) for the proposed development and thus the former must take all the conditions specified in the EA into account.
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March 7th, 2013 RESIDENTS have laid a charge of fraud against individuals involved in the controversial shopping mall planned to be built at Princess Vlei. Members of the Princess Vlei Forum, a group opposed to the planned shopping mall and taxi rank to be built on public land, said the developers had “misrepresented themselves” on two occasions, and said there were serious irregularities in the development.
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February 26th, 2013 We also see that until now most if not all consultation has been limited to Professional Institutes and other Organs Of State, largely to the exclusion of the man in the street.
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February 21st, 2013 My reading of this draft LUPA tells me that if it is promulgated in its present form, the WC Provincial government will have: * more or less removed any ability for community organisations to comment on land use matters in their localities; and * virtually completely written itself out of exercising any appeal function over municipal land use planning decisions in the future. As for appeals against land use planning decisions taken by the municipality, the ability of the general public to make their voice heard has been almost totally destroyed.
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October 4th, 2012  GREEN Party leader Judith Sole is bringing a new legal challenge against the toll plaza under construction on Chapman’s Peak. Sole said yesterday: “I have to do this otherwise we allow a precedent to be set where anyone is entitled to build in a protected area just by getting a signature.
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July 4th, 2012  In any war it is not who is right but who is left? So what is left? Well, thousands of community members shaking their heads in disbelief as to what transpired and most probably bitterness to boot.
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July 1st, 2012  Your voice matters. Standing up for what you believe is right where ever you are in the world.
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June 21st, 2012  Residents were out in force, dogs in tow, on Saturday to make a statement against proposed developments which, they say, will alter the character of the “little seaside village”.
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June 20th, 2012  Mayor De Lille’s actions fly in the face of the well meaning “Save Princess Vlei” volunteers, who have been “dressing the Princess”
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June 19th, 2012  “If the bulldozers come my wife must look for another husband because I will fight to the end…”
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June 12th, 2012  Public of all ages are invited to share their ideas at this opportunity for a creative expression of our future
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June 12th, 2012  “My appeal now is directly to the developer. Hear the people. Save yourself a lot of trouble and withdraw. Can’t you see the anger of the people?”
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June 8th, 2012  To convince authorities of this wisdom, one way to go would be to demonstrate the real cost in cash of disregarding the imperatives of nature and destroying cultural heritage.
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June 7th, 2012  Perhaps the biggest loser will be public confidence. If the government can get away with activities that flout its own laws – and use public money to fight citizens who try to hold it to account in court- why should anyone bother?
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June 6th, 2012  An application to interdict construction of the control building for the Chapman’s Peak toll plaza in Cape Town was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.
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May 7th, 2012 This public march on Sunday 20th May will lead up to the Interdict Application set down for Cape High Court Monday 28th May 2012, 09h00 in Keerom Street, Cape Town.
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May 1st, 2012  Not a pretty picture. The actual architectural drawing of the of the planned Chapman’s Peak Drive two storey LUXURY offices next to the toll plaza
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April 27th, 2012  Some of the public’s opinions on Chapman’s Peak toll plaza and office block as depicted in cartoons, letters, media articles, photo’s and video
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April 23rd, 2012  HOUT Bay residents have gone to court for the second time in an attempt to halt the building of the controversial R54-million luxury office on Chapman’s Peak Drive.
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April 5th, 2012 This public march on Sunday 20th May will lead up to the Interdict Application set down for Cape High Court Monday 28th May 2012, 09h00 in Keerom Street, Cape Town.
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April 5th, 2012  Bronwen Lankers-Byrne on the Chapman’s Peak toll plaza and office: I and the public have many unanswered questions and concerns and would like answers to the following…
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March 13th, 2012 The DA government made a mistake in the way it handled the construction of luxury office space in the World Heritage Site at Chapman’s Peak Drive.
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