Re: FW: FARM ROADS
Mal Morrow
> HI MAL – made some inquiries (see below) re your farm road issue with Johan Massyn who is in charge of roads in
> Blaauwberg. He wants more specific details. Will you supply him direct or revert to me? - H
I will send it to both of you! This message goes to you and to Belinda Kruger, in the hope and expectation that she will copy John Massyn.
I am not familiar with the designation of roads in the area. We live in Ward 32. In the junction between the N7 and Klein Dassenberg Road there is a short dirt road called Rondeberg Road, which I believe is maintained by the municipality. At the south end this joins the N7; at the north end it joins Klein Dassenberg Road.
Just after Rondeberg Road separates from the N7, there is a junction turning south again, which I might call the Rondeberg Road Extension. The junction is at a farm called Claudewill Broilers.
This extension leads to an extensive complex of properties, including the following:
- Hunter's Valley Estate
- A Ciolli Brothers mine
- Kora House
- Dageraad Stables/Stud
- Escargot
- Itlathi Bush Resort
- Caesura Farm (our place)
This is very much not an exhaustive list. Many people live here, and the population has grown very significantly since the turn of the century.
The road is maintained, if that is what it can be called, at our own expense.
We are rate-payers. We don't get services, as we drill for our own water and buy our electricity from Eskom directly. But we do pay rates on our properties regardless, and we believe that it is a matter of redress that these rates should at least partially be spent on services of value to us.
Hence, we are asking the council to take responsibility for maintaining the road that communicates between all our properties.
We are all very interested in finding out what responsibility the council will exercise to its rate-payers. I should imagine there is a process to be gone through, and we would like to follow this process. Please can you supply us with details of how we can go about it? For example, can I write a formal proposal document, supported by maps? I will be very happy to do this, but I need the specifications and so forth. Please revert required regulations so we can proceed.
Tx && rgds,
Mal Morrow
Caesura Farm
Rondeberg Road Extension
Ward 32
Cape Town
HI MAL – made some inquiries (see below) re your farm road issue with Johan Massyn who is in charge of roads in Blaauwberg. He wants more specific details. Will you supply him direct or revert to me? - H
Heather Brenner
PR City Councillor (DA)
Tel/Fax 0215523356
Cell 0848075277
From: Belinda Kruger [mailto:Belinda...@capetown.gov.za] On Behalf Of Johan Massyn
Sent: 17 August 2009 10:24 AM
To: Heather Brenner
Cc: Johan Massyn
Subject: RE: FARM ROADS
Hi Heather
Can you be more specific as far as the locality of this road is concerned. There are many “dirt” roads in that area, mostly private and servitude roads, which we don’t maintain.
Regards
Johan
From: Heather Brenner [mailto:heather...@absamail.co.za]
Sent: 15 August 2009 12:03 PM
To: Johan Massyn
Subject: FARM ROADS
HI JOHAN – I have an received an inquiry regarding the upgrading of an access “dirt” road in the Dassenberg area to smallholdings.
While residents there are aware that they have been responsible in the past for keeping the road in good condition they have suffered some serious deterioration of the road due to recent exceptionally bad weather and want to know to whom they can appeal for assistance in this.
Can you inform me so that I can point me to the correct person to deal with this please? - H
Heather Brenner
PR City Councillor (DA)
Tel/Fax 0215523356
Cell 0848075277
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