{"id":165130,"date":"2020-09-09T05:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/relocation-1500-dunoon-families-postponed-until-least-next-year\/"},"modified":"2020-09-09T05:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:52:19","slug":"relocation-of-1500-dunoon-families-postponed-until-at-least-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/relocation-of-1500-dunoon-families-postponed-until-at-least-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p><a class=\"bigger-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/images\/photographers\/Peter%20Luhanga\/winning_way.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of open land\" class=\"warn_big\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"4112591186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/relocation-of-1500-dunoon-families-postponed-until-at-least-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The site to which 1,500 families will be relocated on Winning Way in Milnerton. Photo: Peter Luhanga<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,500 families were meant to be relocated from Cape Town\u2019s overcrowded Dunoon informal settlements in July.<\/li>\n<li>It has been postponed till next year.<\/li>\n<li>The de-densification project was initiated in April as an urgent response to Covid-19.<\/li>\n<li>The delay is caused by statutory and bureaucratic processes.<\/li>\n<li>Business owners neighbouring the vacant relocation say government is overpaying for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>The planned relocation of 1,500 residents from informal settlements in Dunoon to vacant land in Milnerton, in order to relieve overcrowding, has been postponed to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Human settlements minister Lindiwe Sisulu announced the plan in April, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, to mitigate the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were to be relocated to their new homes in Winning Way in July but it became clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/government-says-july-deadline-relocate-1500-dunoon-families-no-longer-feasible\/?edit=no\">the deadline would not be met<\/a>. No construction of new homes in Winning Way, which is zoned as an industrial area, has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial human settlements department spokesperson Muneera Allie said it is anticipated housing construction will start in November, with informal settlement residents being moved only next year.<\/p>\n<p>Construction can only begin \u201conce approval has been granted and provided that there are no appeals from other stakeholders\u201d. Several land use approvals also needed to be obtained. Despite the process being expedited, the necessary statutory processes were still required. If all went smoothly, relocation would be in the first quarter of 2021, said Allie.<\/p>\n<p>But Renzo Schincariol, a factory owner and body corporate member at Racing Park business park, adjacent to the land at Winning Way, said they were objecting. Schincariol said the City has land across the N7 at Annandale farm, which was already allocated for housing use.<\/p>\n<p>He said the provincial government was \u201cgrossly overpaying\u201d with R65 million for the undeveloped industrial land in Milnerton, when that money could be used to expedite housing at Annandale.<\/p>\n<p>While there was a \u201chuge demand\u201d for housing, the government should not deliver it at the cost of losing industrial land that could create jobs, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Allie said the department had established a project steering committee consisting of local leadership and other interested parties. Part of the steering committee\u2019s responsibility is to identify beneficiaries \u2013 with priority given to the most vulnerable residents within the Dunoon community: elderly, disabled, and very poor people.<\/p>\n<p>She said the department is \u201cvery concerned\u201d about numerous land occupations in the Dunoon area. The provincial department has hired security and is \u201cworking very closely\u201d with law enforcement agencies to ensure the land is not occupied before construction begins.<\/p>\n<p>Questions were sent to Sisulu\u2019s spokesperson Yonela Diko, who provided a response not related to this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2020 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/relocation-of-1500-dunoon-families-postponed-until-at-least-next-year.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/\">Source: GroundUp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site to which 1,500 families will be relocated on Winning Way in Milnerton. Photo: Peter Luhanga 1,500 families were meant to be relocated from Cape Town\u2019s overcrowded Dunoon informal settlements in July. It has been postponed till next year. The de-densification project was initiated in April as an urgent response to Covid-19. 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