The City of Cape Town wishes to invite residents to comment on the naming of Lower Heerengracht Boulevard Circle (northern circle) to Coen Steytler Circle.
On 29 August 2012 the City of Cape Town approved certain name changes after an inclusive public participation process. One of the names changed was that of Coen Steytler Avenue to Walter Sisulu Avenue thus removing the reference to the late City urban planner.
Heerengracht Boulevard is the gateway to the City and forms an important entrance to the City via Table Bay Boulevard and Cape Town Harbour and links with Adderley Street to the south. Heerengracht has two circles and neither of them are named.
The late Coen Steytler played an important management and administrative role in the redevelopment of the Foreshore till the mid 1970s. In an article in Built magazine on 10 October 2008 it is mentioned that, at the time, the Foreshore development was “one of the greatest re-planning projects ever attempted anywhere. After 1945, with the reclamation of some 400 acres of land from the sea, Cape Town’s central business district virtually doubled in size…”.
The naming of the circle will therefore serve as an acknowledgement of the achievements of the late Coen Steytler.
The public comment period commences 1 July 2013 and concludes 31 July 2013.
To submit comments online, click here.
To download a manual comment form for submission, click here.
For further information, contact:
Frederick Venter – Public Participation Unit | Tel: 021 400 1768 | Fax: 021 400 1465 | E-mail: naming@capetown.gov.za
or
Anele Viti – Public Participation Unit | Tel: 021 400 1652 | Fax: 021 400 1465
