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D’VILLE: HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT LOOMS
Traffic troubles increase DESIRÉE RORKE @dezzierorke
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Cutie woofs Dogs were all dressed up for the Cutie Pie Dog Show held in Brackenfell on Human Rights Day, Wednesday 21 March. Our front-page rugga woof, pitbull Gabe, won the Best Rescue category. More photos on page 8. PHOTO: SHUTTERMUTTS
mid a serious lack of adequate road infrastructure, another massive new development is threatening to increase traffic congestion on Brackenfell Boulevard. If approved, this new development will see 136 one- and two-bedroom flats in a five-storey building in Belami Close on the corner of Brackenfell Boulevard and Belami Road in Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville. Local residents who fight their way through a daily stranglehold of traffic are at their wits’ end. They received notification of the proposed development at the end of February, only weeks after the Northern District Community Forum (NDCF) announced their intention to take the City to court over the Andrag development planned diagonally across on the other side of Brackenfell Boulevard in Vredekloof Heights. The Andrag development will see a housing complex of 550 new units. Nico Fivaz from the NDCF says there is no way the current road infrastructure can carry the additional traffic that will be created by this apartment building. “The traffic impact study done for the adjacent Andrag development has already shown us that the current traffic congestion is not to be solved soon. Adding another block of apartments can only exasperate the
problem,” he says. Leon Brynard, also from the NDCF, says the particular traffic impact assessment does not give an accurate reflection of the situation as it was done in isolation and over the December period when many people are away on holiday and schools are closed. “It is a complete crisis. “We will have to approach the Western Cape minister of transport, Donald Grant, to intervene. Talks with Sanral will also have to be called to discuss the future of the Brackenfell Boulevard bridge and how it will affect the region’s traffic,” Brynard says. The architecture of the building will also be out of character with the rest of the area, according to Fivaz. “Five storeys on this small piece of land will stick out like a sore thumb in the neighbourhood. “Moreover, an electrical engineer will have to prove that there is sufficient space between the proposed development and the overhead powerlines that run parallel with Brackenfell Boulevard,” says Fivaz. He is startled that the City would consider high-density developments during a water crisis. “The adjacent homeowners had a meeting and are busy drawing up objections that have to be submitted by 4 April. They also contacted the NDCF to coordinate with us.” V What is your opinion on this article? Let us know at briewe@tygerburger.co.za.