Environmental and Heritage Report to Public Meeting:

1. The littering and cleansing of Camps Bay beach

CBRRA is trying desperately to get Town Council to allow private companies like TUFFY BLACK BAGS and WASTEPLAN in conjunction with Town Council's Solid Waste Department to collect beach litter and recycle it, instead of having it end up on landfill site. It's a very slow process! Added to this incentive is an endeavour with the company called DETTOL, to help assist and improve the condition and hygiene of our ablution blocks at the beach.

Camps Bay residents might also like to know, that the little hut opposite "The Bay Hotel" with the damaged roof tiles, will be repaired soon.


2. The Little Glen project.

Here again litter is the problem and a total lack of upkeep of the surrounds via City Parks, whom we are in discussion with to sort this out. But unfortunately the Director of City Parks, "Chantal Hanslo' who we met with, informed us that the reason for its state is due to a lack of manpower and money. In the meeting we requested that urgent attention be paid to;

a) the pollution of the stream, as it flows straight into the ocean full of sewage and litter and
b) the repair of the streams banks.

Also included in our requests were,

• the replanting of indigenous trees and plants,
• the repair and or replacement of the litter bins,
• plus the increase of the amount of bins.
• the placing of bins in the correct locations, like the entrances and exits to the park,
• the replacement of the sitting park benches,
• the removal of dead plants and shrubs and
• the removal of the illegal squatters right in the middle of the Little Glen.

Miss Hanslo offered the Camps Bay Residents the opportunity to plants trees and shrubs, which her dept would gladly donate to Camps Bay residents free of charge.


3. The Glen.

At the moment it is an on going project with key individuals and organisations being involved in coming up with the best resolutions for this very important and sensitive area. The intentions are to upgrade it, but in the same breath to retain its natural beauty. So in essence, it's still a "project in progress". Everyone will be very pleased to know, that The Roundhouse Restaurant is fully behind retaining The Glen to it's original natural beauty. A committee has been formed called "GAB" - "Glen Advisory Body" of which two of CBRRA ManCo, namely Johan van Papendorp and Richard Dames, are members, is due to meet at the end of March 2010 to get things moving in this area.


4. Important and interesting services being offered by WOOLWORTHS and INCREDIBLE CONNECTION are,
that anyone who wants to recycle their printer ink cartridges can pop into INCREDIBLE CONNECTION where they have a box just for this. So please be environmentally conscious and dispose of them there. Failing which, people are more than welcome to drop them off at 5 Geneva Drive from where it will be disposed. The same applies for ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS. Woolworths also has a bin purely dedicated for the recycling of these light bulbs. Again Camps Bay residents can drop these off at 5 Geneva Drive to be disposed.

5. Lastly, a VERY enlightening and informative Global Warming and Environmental program was screened on SABC 2 called "A vision of Paradise". This is the website where a person can play a small preview of the total episode, www.hooper.co.za/videoavisionofparadise1.htm. CBRRA strongly recommend everyone have a look at this. The website is very well laid out and very informative. A person and student can learn alot form this website in an Environmental - Earth orientated manner.

Richard Dames
Johan van Papendorp (Chair Environment and Heritage)

CBBRA March 2010