CBRRA Objection Erf 404 Sedgemoor Rd

02 AUGUST 2011

The Director: Planning & Building Development Management (Cape Town Region )

City of Cape Town

Box 4529

Cape Town 8000

ATTN: Friedrich Durow

Dear Mr Durow

APPLICATION FOR DEPARTURE from the CAPE TOWN ZONING SCHEME

FILEREF LM 5602 (201718)

OWNER DUNCAN BARRATT

APPLICANT BMJ DESIGNS

ERF 404

LOCATION 21 SEDGEMOOR RD

SUBURB CAMPS BAY

The CBRRA objects to this application.

This application is for a permanent departure from the Zoning Scheme in order to regularize an existing garage. Unfortunately, the garage is not a stand-alone structure but incorporates a living unit as an integral part of a double storey building.

This raises two problems. viz:

The City is being requested to allow a habitable dwelling unit to be regularized closer than 4.5m to the street boundary, which is totally different to an application merely for a garage. Thus the advertisement is factually misleading and therefore void in terms of a raft of legislation.

The application kicks in a removal of restrictions requirement in terms of the Act, in that the offending structure cannot be described as merely a garage or outbuilding not exceeding 3.05m in height. This double storey existing structure must be set back 4.72m from the street boundary on Eldon Lane (or, in the alternative 3.15m), both which exceed the 1.734m advertised.

This renders this application fatally flawed and must be re-advertised in a factually correct manner and in terms of all relevant legislation.

CBRRA is prepared to facilitate discussions between the Applicant and Affected Parties in an attempt to broker an acceptable solution, if the parties so wish.

CBRRA requests an interview at the appropriate Sub-council / SPELUM meeting that will convene to consider this application.

Regards

CHRIS WILLEMSE

CHAIRPERSON

CBRRA

contact:

Chris Willemse

cnwillemse@gmail.com

Mobile 083 6536363

Fax 021-4380703

CBRRA AGM 15 Aug '11

AGENDA

(Please click on the item for more details)

Welcome

Chair: Chris Willemse

A Fragile Village: Michele Harvey (Vice)

Councillor Beverley Schafer

Wayne Aldridge: Vagrancy

Energy Savings Campaign:Lisa Parkes

Councillor Marga Haywood

Census: Juliet Lerm

Membership: Gus Millner

Dogwalking: Trudi Groenewald

Finance: John Powell

Planning: Chris Willemse

Questions from the Floor

Election of new committee members

Closure

CBRRA Financials 2009

These 2009 financials have been signed off by Manco and the auditors.

Click on each image to enlarge.

Electricity Saving Campaign

Dear various Association representatives along the Atlantic Sea Board

I am writing to you on behalf of the City of Cape Town

As you may know already…

There is a serious national electricity supply shortage and we need to do everything we can to avoid power cuts again.

The price of electricity is rising steeply.

South Africa’s electricity is currently mostly produced by coal-fired power stations, which does a lot of harm to our environment, and contributes to climate change threats.

The City of Cape Town is calling on all Capetonians to reduce their electricity consumption. The City has researched easy and cost-effective actions people can take at home, and is making this information available through an electricity saving campaign. For smart ideas on ways to save money, and help save our environment, visit: www.savingelectricity.org.za .

This website provides help for taking action, including ‘Top 10 Tips’, a guide on where to find energy efficient products, and other useful tools and resources.

We are writing to you to ask for your help. Please could you:

Share information with your network of members/ residents/ constituents/ stakeholders. Please see the attached items to add to your next newsletter (if you have one), or to share in other ways.

Presentation and/or campaign materials. Let us know if there’s any opportunity to come and give a short presentation to a meeting of your members, and/or if you’d be prepared to put up a poster in a ‘high-traffic; area (e.g. an entrance foyer, or a lift) or hand out some campaign materials. We also have an interactive info kiosk which could be set up at bigger events too.

It would be great if you could accommodate this request for a presentation or information sharing, preferably to happen before 10th July 2011.

Many thanks, and we look forward to hearing back from you.

Please note that icologie have been appointed by the City of Cape Town as the service provider to roll-out this Electricity Saving Camapaign.

All the best (on behalf of the City of Cape)

Steven Marks

Cell +27 79 550 2987

Tel +27 21 439 3898

Fax +27 86 689 7464

www.icologie.com

steven.marks@icologie.com

Which Ward am I in?

The Demarcation Board has divided the City of Cape Town into geographic areas called wards to effectively manage service delivery. Wards are in turn represented by elected ward councillors, who interact with ward forums and the City as a way of bringing their respective community's concerns to Council's attention. Each ward councillor is also a member of a subcouncil and a member of a portfolio committee. There are 105 wards in Cape Town, with between 13 000 and 15 000 voters each. There are usually between three and seven neighbouring wards in a subcouncil.

Camps Bay falls in Sub Council 16 as indicated below:

SUB COUNCIL 16

Wards included: Ward 54, Ward 74, Ward 77

Contact details

Tel: 021 487 2055

Fax: 021 487 2208

Address:

Good Hope Subcouncil

11th Floor

44 Wale Street

Cape Town

8001

E-mail: subcouncil16.goodhope@capetown.gov.za

Chairperson:

Demetri (Taki) Amira

Manager:

Marius Coetsee

Ward Councillors:

Alderman Jean-Pierre Smith (Ward 54)

Marga Haywood (Ward 74)

Vivienne Margaret Walker (Ward 77)

PR Councillors:

Mluleki Enoch Mbonde

Mawonga Labase

Demetri Amira

CAMPS BAY is split into two Wards, namely Ward 54 and Ward 74.

The split runs along the following road from the ocean:

From Victoria next to the Camps Bay Club following

The Mead,

left into Central,

right into Tree

left into Geneva

right into Woodford

left into Cramond,

right between Erf 22 and 4,

across Medburn,

across between Erf 21 and 23,

left into Camps Bay Drive, to the neck.

All residents on the Sea Point side of this split is included in Ward 54 and all residents on the Hout Bay side of this split is included in Ward 74.

Voting District View Finder

For more information on your voting district, please visit the Election Committee website at http://maps.elections.org.za/vsfinder/ where the boundaries are clearly allocated.

Final Party and Ward Candidate lists drawn up

Final party and ward candidate lists for the 2011 elections

12/04/2011

The Electoral Commission (IEC) announced today that the candidate lists for the municipal elections on 18 May 2011 have been finalised. This is the outcome of the nomination process where political parties and independent candidates -

• Submitted their nominations before 17:00 on 25 March

• Were advised by the Electoral Commission (IEC) of shortcomings where identity documents were not submitted or where acceptance of nomination forms by candidates were still outstanding; and

• had until 17:00 on 8 April to rectify these shortcomings

The Chief Electoral Officer, Adv Pansy Tlakula, said that the nomination process have been complicated to some extent by some intra-party disputes which resulted in a number of last minute court applications with the last judgement only being passed within the last hour before the closure of nominations.

There are 121 parties that will be contesting the elections as opposed to 97 parties in 2006 and 79 in 2001. The number of candidates is 53596 compared to 45179 in 2006 and 30477 in 2001. Of the 53596 candidates 29570 are party ward candidates and 23278 are party proportional list candidates. The number of independent ward candidates also increased from 667 in 2006 to 748 in 2011. The increases in nominations are an indication of a broadening in electoral participation at local level and is very encouraging as for as the entrenchment of democratic processes are concerned.

There are only two (2) wards country wide, namely one each in the Great Kei (Komga) and Lukhanji (Queenstown) municipalities that are uncontested, whilst 11 wards were uncontested in 2006.

“There is a slight improvement in the gender distribution of candidates with the percentage of women candidates having increased from 35% in 2006 to 37% in 2011. This remains a disappointing outcome,” said Adv Tlakula.

There are unfortunately a larger number of nominations which did not meet requirements on this occasion than in 2006 when 932 candidates were disqualified. The number of nominations that did not meet the set legal requirements is 2313 for one or more of the following reasons:

• Not registered as voters

• Not registered in the municipality for which nominated

• Copy of ID not submitted

• Acceptance of nomination not submitted

• Independent – list of signatures not submitted

• Independent – Nominators not a registered voter

• Independent – Nominator not on the voters roll for the municipality for which nomination is made

• Deposit not paid

Apart from these non-compliance issues a number of nominations were not accepted as it was attempted to submit them after the close of nominations or they were presented at a location other than the municipality which was being contested. Some of these cases are the matter of court applications and appeals and whilst the list of candidates have already been published it is therefore possible that once matters have been finally resolved amendment notices might have to be issued.

Only one party, the African National Congress, will be contesting all 278 municipal elections. The Democratic Alliance will be contesting 272 municipalities and the Congress of the People 220. The ward ballot papers with the most candidates are wards 24 (Bishop Lavis) and 79 (Beacon Value / Eastridge) in Cape Town with 24 candidates each. The party proportional list ballot paper in Cape Town with 32 parties is also the ballot paper with the most contesting parties.

The order of parties on the proportional list ballot papers will be determined on 13 April at an occasion where political parties well also sign a pledge to honour and promote the Code of Conduct for political parties. Printer proofs of ballot papers will shortly thereafter be submitted to municipal party liaison committee’s for sign off by ward candidates and political parties. With the elections only 37 days away it is a mammoth logistical undertaking to print the ballot papers for the 4275 contested wards and the 460 proportional ballot papers for local and district councils.

The next milestone on the election timetable will be Friday 15 April 2011 when voters can start submitting applications for special votes because they either cannot visit their voting stations on voting day or are infirm or disabled. The IEC will shortly make full details available as far as the subject is concerned.

Full details of candidate lists will be published on the IEC website shortly as well as in the Government Gazette.

ISSUED BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Pretoria

12 April 2011

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