The City is steamrolling a process to adopt a new Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) for the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP). This is very important as the proposed LSDF will provide for high-intensity development in the Liesbeek flood plain, pretty much changing the ‘rules’ so that the River Club will find it much easier…
Category: TWO RIVERS URBAN PARK
Other News – Heritage Appeal Tribunal
On 21st November, the Ministerial Heritage Appeal Tribunal met to consider the matter of the River Club Provisional Protection Order. The Order had been appealed in 2018 by the developers, the City, and two provincial departments. In 2018, the Tribunal ordered Heritage Western Cape to complete a consultation process with the appellants and to report back…
A RECIPE FOR DISASTER from Marc Turok
Take an Urban Park, consulted on from 1998 to 2003 and adopted by the City of Cape Town as the Two Rivers Urban Park based on the approved Contextual Framework and the TRUP Management Plan. Add the 2014 Table Bay District Plan that refers to the TRUP as an important Park that is a Natural…
OCA Public open letter to Mayor Dan Plato re the TRUP LSDF & HIA adverts in CoCT
Please read the letter here.
Final OCA BAR Submission – 16 September 2019
from: Tauriq Jenkins – OCA Chair Please download the document from HERE.
Template for Objections/Comments on the proposed RiverClub Development
Deadline: 16th September 2019 23:59 INFORMATION on how to launch an Objection/Comment on the Riverclub Development. Where to Send your objections: Send it to Amy Hill of SRK at [email protected] Please copy the following email if you submit an objection: [email protected] If you have any queries please contact Amy Hill of SRK at contact number…
August 2019 Report on TRUPA
from: Marc Turok The Two Rivers Urban Park is a declared park, based on a consulted vision that took 5 years to achieve – the TRUP Association has its Contextual Framework LSDF and its Management Plan endorsed and adopted by our City who assisted to make this healing process real and formally adopted in law….
TRUP Association’s report July 2019
TRUPA managed to have a few catch up management meetings recently after the intense period focusing entirely on the pressurizing threats of the Appeals against the Provisional Protection on River Club site as gazetted by HWC. The Ministerial Appeals Tribunal was heavily swayed by strong legal teams who had argued a case trying to prevent…
Chair’s Report June 2019
from Tauriq Jenkins – A Civic…It’s a curious place of broad representation, a magical place of meaning, placemaking, and for the OCA in particular – heritage protection and the protection of the vulnerable. We fight the bullies. The civic is a space for the community. The subway project has been a wonderful community initiative that reclaiming a…
Hope Held Firm as the ‘Provisional Protection’ on the Heritage of River Club site was retained by HWC Council!
from: Marc Turok, Deputy Chair of TRUPA Two Rivers Urban Park remains under general future development threat! There was some relief on Friday 24 May as the Council of Heritage Western Cape announced that it was committed to holding firm to retain the gazetted order on the Provisional Protection of the River Club Site. Liesbeek…