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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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| Rykie Steenkamp | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:14:51 UTC
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| Victoria Robinson | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:14:28 UTC
I really enjoy the pavilion/promenade, its one of the few open spaces left where one can walk freely and enjoy the sea view. Its a beatiful area and doesn't need to be constructed for commercial benefit to aid greedy developers. Leave it alone. Does development have to destroy everything? |
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| fletcher beadon | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:10:26 UTC
rampant capitalism will eat the world |
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| Maria Cowie | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:06:09 UTC
The promenade must be kept as is!! No development should allowed here! |
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| Charmaine French | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 13:04:26 UTC
Preserving open spaces has been scientifically proven to reduce community stress, crime, and anti-social societal behviour. God knows, there are already enough shopping centres for Capetownians, especially for those who live on the seaboard!
Don't let greedy developers grasp what is quintessentially a citizen's right. |
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| valerie lambrechts | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:47:57 UTC
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| christopher marchand | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:44:48 UTC
Any chance of exposing the corruption that must underpin this last minute approval? |
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| Andi | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:43:04 UTC
I absolutely love the Sea Point promendade and should protect it at all costs |
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| Helen | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:34:45 UTC
Disgraceful move on the city's part |
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| D. Samuels | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:33:42 UTC
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| Pieter van der Bijl | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:32:20 UTC
Best wishes and success! |
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| philip nieuwoudt | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:31:13 UTC
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| cathy cooper | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:30:50 UTC
we need as much open space as we can get - please do not do this |
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| Marina Brink | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:14:39 UTC
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| James Oxenham | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:11:34 UTC
My Grand parents lived opposite for several years and I would be devistated to see such a beautiful area developed into a shopping complex. |
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| Mandy Pond | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 12:06:53 UTC
This will not only ruin the character of the promenade, ecologically it will have a detrimental effect |
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| Hans-Jürgen Mühlberg | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:55:42 UTC
fucking stupid idear to set there a shoping center....is there not enough |
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| Pierre Antoine | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:54:03 UTC
Public open spaces should remain as such! |
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| Natasha Dulin | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:45:22 UTC
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| Sebastian Voigt | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:43:05 UTC
The Cape is fast losing its charm because of over development. The Promenade is one of the few areas untouched by greedy developers. I hope to see it preserved as I love that part of Sea Point and Cape Town would lose something special if they did away with the Pool. |
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| Amaria Carstens | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:40:48 UTC
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| Paula Cardoso | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:36:09 UTC
Stop the commercialisation of the beachfront through the construction of exclusive business centres |
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| Chris Thompson | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:27:38 UTC
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| Rickie-Lee Murray | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:27:25 UTC
Every facet of the retail industry is suffering with rising prices and interest rates and they want to build more malls? I suppose a fool and his money really are soon parted... |
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| Winston Moolman | Signed on: Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:26:58 UTC
Let us all join hands and stop the killing of the earth. |
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