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| Richard Saunders | Signed on: Sat 26 Jan 2008 06:43:39 UTC
A large part of the magic of the promenade comes from it being enthusiastically and publicly shared: no fencing of the Commons! |
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| BEV DAY | Signed on: Sat 26 Jan 2008 06:39:55 UTC
IT WOULD BE CRIMINAL TO LOSE THE BEAUTY OF THE PROMENADE AND THE ROLE THAT IT PLAYS IN ENRICHING SO MANY CAPETONIANS" LIVES (NOT TO MENTION THE VISITORS TO OUR CITY) |
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| Mich Nieuwoudt | Signed on: Sat 26 Jan 2008 06:27:17 UTC
Keep the promenade! |
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| Amelia Henning | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 23:12:57 UTC
No NO NO rezoning must be allowed. |
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| Reaz | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 23:11:20 UTC
Leave the Pavillion alone. Make it cleaner and better for the public. Don't take it away from them. |
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| Carina Vosloo | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 23:03:41 UTC
Totally opposed to the rezoning, rather make it more beautiful for free use by everyone. |
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| Quentin Owen | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 23:01:06 UTC
I am opposed to any upgrade that takes away our right to walk in that area.
Public Space needs to be increased and improved not degraded to it's commercial value. |
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| Bev Josten | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 22:50:51 UTC
The beauty of Seapoint is the promenade - providing cross-cultural recreational space for old and young alike. It should be protected strongly. The Pavilion can be developed to the same height and size as it is now - an open restaurant or a few - with mid not top range pricing would be welcome and well-used there. If Nice in France, can do this sort of thing (below the level of the road) but still preserve their promenade - I think we should be guided by them - Cape Town would wreck the whole beachfront if they allow high-rise development on the actual promenade. NOOOO!!!!! |
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| Richard Dowling | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 22:39:53 UTC
I am opposed to the rezoning of the Seapoint sea front area, it MUS remain a free public zone. |
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| Ryann Dean | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 21:56:51 UTC
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| Graham Viljoen | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 21:54:39 UTC
If you keep taking away what is special about Cape Town then all you will be left with is another Durban with colder water... |
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| Ron Schiff | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 20:19:22 UTC
Just for once, let us say a collective and emphatic "NO" to those who would turn what little natural beauty and heritage we have left into yet another concrete money-spinner. |
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| Arron Evans | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 19:54:57 UTC
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| toby orford | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 19:22:24 UTC
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| Marlene Renshaw | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 19:17:07 UTC
There is the Waterfront nearby and a whole street of shops a block away and a lot of pets and people exercize there everyday |
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| Anerien Becker | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 18:15:30 UTC
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| Doerte Goldammer | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 18:01:37 UTC
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| Dale pearce | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 17:49:32 UTC
money money money |
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| Carl Jordan | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 17:14:44 UTC
I regulary visist sea point beach front and would wish my children to see what a beautifull place it is too. Dont ruin which beauty you already have. |
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| Gail Meyers | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 17:08:51 UTC
there must be very specific planning with well thought out motivation and benefit description before anything is agreed to in this and other public spaces. we must preserve natural beauty and accessibility at all costs. |
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| Adelia O'Leary | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:58:38 UTC
I am totally againast the rezoning of this area and if this is allowed where will it stop. |
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| DEREK SCHWARTZ | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:38:15 UTC
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| Ingrid Serritslev | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:34:30 UTC
Leave us our space to run and enjoy a seafront paradise. Who wants to go shopping there when the Waterfront is so close by?? |
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| leslie de jager | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:23:11 UTC
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| Liz Westby-Nunn | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:23:04 UTC
Rather renovate the original pavilion with the philosophy of mimimum impact and to be more asesthetically pleasing and sustainable. |
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| jared | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 16:00:14 UTC
Save the sea and all it creations |
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| Peter Krainhofner | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:47:04 UTC
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| Elizabeth Underhay | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:42:05 UTC
So much of the Atlantic Seaboard is already taken up by buildings blocking the sea view for anyone else but the people in those buildings. So little space is left where you can walk/run/play with your children in fresh air, or for the elderly to just be outside in a more natural environment. |
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| Ellen Raubenheimer | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:40:40 UTC
No to unscrupulous developers |
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| Mrs Marion Lewis | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:30:26 UTC
We have to protect our open spaces at all costs. |
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| samantha de kock | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:28:52 UTC
I am a Capetonian and would not like this beautiful part of out city to be lost.
kind regards
Samantha |
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| Virginia Greenwood-W | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:28:19 UTC
Leave our pavillion alone!!! |
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| ruf | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:22:05 UTC
it is so unfair as many people, including myself has created many memories there. for it just to be destroyed is not right! |
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| bill langley | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:21:28 UTC
Please keep all public land public! |
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| Maggie van der Westh | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 15:10:08 UTC
I run along and walk on the Promenade regulary and would hate for the beachfront to be marred by buildings on the sea side. |
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| Audrey Dobbins | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:52:25 UTC
Further development along the seafront would inhibit the community feel about sea point. I don't live in that area, but enjoy coming there to walk along the seaboard. If the pool was taken away then the whole atmosphere would change and the communal areas would be further inhibited. Instead of fostering an integrated society (which we already have trouble with) it would further degrade this. |
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| TOUGHEEDA JACOBS | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:45:53 UTC
CLEARLY SO, I AGREE WITH EVERY WORD YOU SAY IT IS THE RAINBOW SPOT AND ENJOYED BY ALL ACROSS THE CULTURAL BOARD. WE HAVE TO STOP THIS CRAZINESS IN OUR CRAZY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER CITY |
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| T. Broekmann | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:36:29 UTC
I run or walk the length of the promenade twice a week. I am aghast that public land along this strategic stretch could be privatised. Certainly I believe that the public's view and access to the sea is much more important than any benefits a development could bring. |
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| ANDREW WHITEHEAD | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:33:45 UTC
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| Stephanie Abbott | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:16:02 UTC
I go almost every day to the sea point promenade for a jog and enjoy it tremendously. Also I work in the fashion photo shoot industry and almost every international client who shoot in Cape Town has at least one day shoot on the promenade. It would be a great loss for me personally and professionally to lost this public space |
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| gary meade | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:07:00 UTC
I feel that any development on these properties other than upgrading of the existing facilities will not add any value to the seafront and will rob the public of a well utilised asset. |
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| gavin liebenberg | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 14:05:13 UTC
Unlike several other tall seafront structures in the surounding areas, this one is to be built on a stretch of coast with is highly accessible to and historically enjoyed by a large portion of the local population & foreign tourists. It should not be allowed. |
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| Bernadene Coetzee | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:50:48 UTC
Please keep Public areas public |
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| Karen | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:46:22 UTC
I LOVE my Saturday monring 2-hour-long walk on the Promenade. I want to have the freedom to continue this ritual!!! |
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| cal kingwill | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:45:38 UTC
pse keep the seafront for all.. |
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| Gerhard van der Merw | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:41:08 UTC
I am a regular user of the Promenade as my wife and I run and walk there at least once a week (usually twice).
The promenade serves as a very meaningful public open space as it is highly accessible both by foot and by public transport. It is further democratic in its nature, allowing access to all, and a variety of uses.
It is for instance the only public space accessible by foot from the CBD where one can watch the sun set. All other such areas are fully privatized, for example the waterfront.
It thus serves as a major tourist attraction, a fact easily verified by any regular user of this space. By its very nature it thus serves to boost the income of the City due to its contribution to the attractive nature of the City.
The City already boasts very substantial retail facilities as well as hotels, many of them in spectacular locations. I believe that it can strongly be argued that the City is much more in need of meaningful, accessible recreational spaces rather than further commercial opportunities.
The scale of the promenade is further of specific value. One can use examples such as Central Park in New York, and the park systems of London as examples of such substantial recreational spaces that have attained iconic status, directly linked to the identity (and enjoyment) of such cities.
While Cape Town is strongly identified by the mountain, accessible spaces such as the promenade actually accommodate a far larger number of users. We should be showing it off to the international world as an asset, not selling it off to developers to be privatized. |
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| elle | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:35:23 UTC
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| carmelita hendricks | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:29:30 UTC
first a white elephant in greenpoint now a mall where will it end |
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| Cathy Turrell | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:24:17 UTC
Please do not destroy our national heritage |
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| Rusheeda | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:15:58 UTC
Sea Point promenade is like a Sunday afternoon outing for us as a family. Our kids love the wide open spaces. Don't destroy that. |
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