Seafront For All

Developers should not be allowed to take one of the most precious resources of our fair city. The Seapoint Pavillion and Promenade is unique and beautiful, and is used by all ages and races. Without it Cape Town will be diminished.

Dr Jon Rohde

Signed on: Sun 27 Jul 2008 15:44:05 UTC

This resource is what makes Cape Town. If developers continue to devour our open spaces, especially those open to all racial and economic groups, Cape Town will rapidly lose its place as a world destination. The "Pav" is a unique resource. Next they will propose to level Table Mountain to make housing and hotels. Please tell your friends to actively campaign against this travesty of an assault on the fairest city!

Garth Levin

Signed on: Fri 18 Jul 2008 09:31:16 UTC

Erla Rabe

Signed on: Thu 17 Jul 2008 16:23:16 UTC

Enough with the "development"!

Betty Barnett

Signed on: Sun 13 Jul 2008 22:50:09 UTC

James Covernton

Signed on: Sun 13 Jul 2008 22:47:13 UTC

Patrick Covernton

Signed on: Sun 13 Jul 2008 22:46:23 UTC

kevin Covernton

Signed on: Sun 13 Jul 2008 22:44:36 UTC

Signed on: Sun 13 Jul 2008 11:31:47 UTC

Mike Wiggill

Signed on: Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:27:24 UTC

"Development" has gone mad !!
There is no planning, forethought, or consideration of the future consequences involved - only who's pockets will be lined, and which BEE enterprises stand to benefit.
What about the communities at large?

Charalambos Magoulia

Signed on: Mon 07 Jul 2008 15:00:27 UTC

This will be a disaster for all including the tourists

Theodora Magoulianit

Signed on: Mon 07 Jul 2008 14:58:32 UTC

There is no such thing as just one hotel! All the children, young adults & senior citizens of all races use these facilities. Here we are all South Africans at peace

John Magoulianitis

Signed on: Mon 07 Jul 2008 14:54:04 UTC

Tourists come to see the beauty of the sea fronts and other unspoilt areas that Cape Town has to offer. Why destroy the very thing that attracts them? This area represents one of the few remaining places where children, Senior citizens,families sportspersons from all over CT come to enjoy themselves. Why should we the people who live here be permanently denied for the sake of seasonal interest in our country.

Hazel Conacher

Signed on: Sat 05 Jul 2008 07:53:15 UTC

Please let some things remain the same! The value of this property is not measured in rands and cents but in the enjoyment it gives the public

Phoebe Barnard

Signed on: Fri 04 Jul 2008 13:49:28 UTC

Capetonians, stand up on this issue. How many ugly, congested concrete city seafronts exist around the world? Nobody loves such places, perhaps even the developers who've become obscenely rich from them. For too long we've let market-driven developments determine the kind of landscape around us. It's time to stop! The development surely also contravenes the spirit and letter of the Integrated Coastal Management act and the Coastal Edge. It will be of no great pleasure to us all when the bottom floors of waterfront developments are ruined by storm surges and sea level rise over the next decades. Leave natural land as open space buffers - previous generations were wise enough to realize this.

fazeela haffejee

Signed on: Fri 04 Jul 2008 08:09:09 UTC

Save the Seafront. My kids love the area.

Niki Covary

Signed on: Thu 03 Jul 2008 20:35:29 UTC

Deela Khan

Signed on: Sat 28 Jun 2008 01:44:40 UTC

There are places should be off-limits to any sort of industrial development. The scenic Sea Point Pavilion, promenade and surrounding areas frequented by all of us, is unspoiled coastline we don’t want to be rezoned, developed or destroyed. The City of Cape Town has, no doubt, in our climate of insatiable greed and rampant poverty, been enticed by Development Moguls and has disgustingly yielded. It supports environmentally myopic developers trying to privatise our coastline, exploit it for mega bucks. The minister, who rubber stamped the tender, doesn’t care two hoots, that skyscrapers on our coastline would steal our spectacular sunsets and daybreaks. Sadly we, South Africans and the global community would be robbed of our stars and night-time views. The City has to revision the fallout of so rash a decision. Development must be stopped. We will not give up the fairest urban Public Open Spaces in the world that we have enjoyed since Liberation, when we were promised “a better life for all!” or was it, a bitter life for all?

Deela Khan

Signed on: Sat 28 Jun 2008 01:35:21 UTC

mavis smallberg

Signed on: Fri 27 Jun 2008 09:14:20 UTC

It is bad enough that the majority of Cape Town's population can only dream about living on the Atlantic seaboard. Now greedy developers plan to deny them access to the pavilion as well. The seafront is an invigorationg, soul-soothing place that should be enjoyed by all. Thank you for this initiative.

sarah wilkinson

Signed on: Wed 25 Jun 2008 16:12:46 UTC

Lesego Motolla

Signed on: Mon 23 Jun 2008 14:08:04 UTC

greedy, exploitation, self enrichment will never built SA. But...

Lance Michalson

Signed on: Tue 17 Jun 2008 23:14:24 UTC

Frequest Promenade Walker

Cecile Blake

Signed on: Fri 13 Jun 2008 09:56:48 UTC

I love that piece of land! I love to see south africans from all walks of life enjoy the open space wih their families. How can we stop this?