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Consensus Principles

  • Overall Aim: To draft a plan “for all people currently living in the Greater Hout Bay area, access to land and suitable housing properly serviced
  • Type of Development Envisaged: Must be integrated, sustainable and balanced communities
  • The Status and Role of the “16 Hectares”: Suitable as a zone of opportunity for integrated and sustainable mixed use development”, part of an overall solution to the housing crisis
  • Court Interdict: No consensus; held over until housing is addressed
  • Beneficiaries: To be finalised
  • The Moving of Residents: Movement of some residents is inevitable
  • A Hout Bay Wide Development Plan: A framework of Infrastructural, social and environmental parameters to be formulated to guide development. A moratorium on development must be declared ubntil framework formulated
  • Public or Private land?: Land audit must be done; Public land is the first option for housing. Private land thereafter
  • Defining the Housing Plan: Technical working group to propose different housing models that shall include densification and single housing units on land identified
  • Holding Authorities Accountable: Present Working Committee shall appoint a suitable monitoring team to develop, present and execute he plans
  • Time Lines: August 2007 report back. Plans by December 2007 for construction in 2008
  • Responsibility and Funding: City, Province and National Department of Housing
  • Land Audit: Not only City and Provincial land considered but other Government agencies and private land included


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