NEW TENT RESIDENTS DURBANVILLE

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#2405

If you let this issue go unchecked, informal settlements in public spaces, will become serious threat , as well as an reality , to Durbanville taxpayers. We have all witnessed what happens at surrounding informal settlements, once they start , their sizes just explode, and crime follows.

Jan Hendrik Aggenbach (Durbanville, 2022-07-17)

#2415

All development must be planned properly to include the minimum basic facilities for dignified habitation

Brendan Beelders (Cape Town, 2022-07-17)

#2416

The living conditions are unacceptable and a health hazard.

Sandra Hollander (Cape Town, 2022-07-17)

#2417

The situation is unacceptable. Law and order needs to be applied by authorities.

Philip Fouche (Bellville, 2022-07-17)

#2419

As a 65 year old owner of St Baxter, I am watching my life savings, which was used to purchase my unit at St Baxter dwindle away.
There has now been numerous cases where owners of units at St Baxter loosing potential sales of their units due to the tented settlement across St Baxter.

There are numerous laws and bi-laws that are being transgressed with NO consequences, to name a few:
Open fires, camping in a park, loitering, using alcohol in public, public noise / disturbance, hanging washing in public, shitting in public, littering, to name but a few!

Hein Erwin (Durbanville, 2022-07-17)

#2421

I'm a Durbanville resident and parent that does not want my children too see public scenes of defecation/urination when attending school or church.

Nico Basson (Klein-Nederburg|7550, 2022-07-17)

#2423

I believe the informal settlement is reducing property values in Durbanville, contributing to petty crime and encouraging substance abuse in public, and that in view of a primary school!

I also believe the squatters are contravening several municipal bylaws, not only by occupying public open space, but also through making open fires, public indecency and prohibiting the general public from using this "public open space".

SW Bouwer (Durbanville, 2022-07-17)

#2424

Im a concerned durbanville resident and property owner

Morne Strydom (Durbaville, 2022-07-17)

#2425

We live in Durbanvilke

Rene Nel (Durbanville, 2022-07-17)

#2433

This is inappropriate

Annelise Schneider (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2435

This is directly opposite the primary school and our kids does not need to be witness the unhealthy situation

Annamarie Erasmus (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2438

The City need to apply the law of the land evenly and equally. This is nothing short of a squatter camp growing in our doorsteps. This will eventually impact on the property prices in the area. Our rates should be respected and at least some put back into our community by way of enforcement of laws.

Simon Whittaker (Durbanville, Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2440

I want those tents removed

Nelia Fourie (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2452

It will become an informal settlement with shacks going up, if not stopped

Maureen Alexander (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2454

To protect the integrity of Durbanville

Jo Burns (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2456

I do not want informal settlements started in areas where property tax are being paid.

Malinda Lennox (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2460

Not safe!!!!!

Bessie Davids (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2461

We live in Vygeboom Road and have sleepless nights, especially on bin day, because of the rapidly growing homeless community on our doorstep.

Olga Jardine (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2463

I'm signing because my niece goes to the primary school being referred to. Next year her sister will be joining her. This is just as described, the tent towm has sprung up overnight and is a safety and health hazard.

Nina De kock (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2464

I feel it’s inhumane to leave people in tents and hope government will find them better suited living spaces.

Michael Lazarus (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2468

The city needs to take care of its homeless. This problem was not created by the law abiding, rates and taxes paying citizens. Please put those minutes to good use for all its citizens.

Michael Brand (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2472

I do not agree with the tents being illegally erected in and around Durbanville

Jason Bosch (Eversdal Heights, Cape Town, 7550, 2022-07-18)

#2475

I do not want to see any tented communities here.

Graeme Stead (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2481

I'm concerned about the security in my area.

Renzo Reffo (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2486

It's now becoming an eyesore when entering Durbanville and if this goes on unchecked ,it will blossom into becoming uncontrollable

Paul Sabatta (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2492

An extremely unpleasant and dirty tent site we have to look onto in our beautiful town right in the heart of the centre. That area is not there to vacate.

Teresa Dreyer (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2493

I am signing because of the same reasone above. It can become out of hands and our children is our first priority. Clean streets, no defacation or urinating where their is no facility!

anthea plaatjes (durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2495

I'm a tax payer. I do not want vagrants on the main road. If they don't pay taxes to stay in the best area then why should I.

Bernard Rosser (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2497

This invasion of municipal land is unacceptable. It is a huge health risk for everybody in the area. The ablutions of these people are everywhere…

Jaco De Kock (Bellville, 2022-07-18)

#2499

I do not want a illegal tented settlement to start growing in Durbanville.

Ruan De Kock (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2500

The settlement impacts the safety of all the residents of Durbanville and will become a breeding ground for other types of criminal activities.

Shadley Adams (Cape town, 2022-07-18)

#2503

Dale

Dale De Villiers (Cape town, 2022-07-18)

#2505

There are other suitable land for these tent occupiers and I do not want the area to deteriorate.

Chris Botha (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2513

It is suggested that another piece of land more suitable for an informal settlement be found (in close proximity) and these folks be assisted by the Red Ants to move to the new site. If need be, we can raise funds for a toilet facility at a new site albeit those bucket toilets.

One thing we can be sure of – is that the residents of Durbanville will not allow an informal settlement like Du Noon to develop right under our noses in the Centre of town.

Speaking with MES, I have learned that it seems that Law Enforcement is telling tent folks to go to Baxter Street. If that is the case this must stop immediately. There are no facilities at Baxter Street and besides a health hazard, the sight of people defecating is not what anybody can accept, especially not when we have a primary school right there. This is not what children should be subjected to.

Pretorius Lundi (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2515

Concerned about our community

Judy Taylor (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2527

I don’t want a squatter camp to develop in the centre of Durbanville - it is highly unsanitary & a health hazard.

Vincent Fitzmaurice (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2528

I like to stay in a clean town where there is still law and orde

Andre De Wet (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2530

The situation is unhygienic and a solution must be found.

Sarah O'Neill (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2531

This blatant lawlessness must stop.

Ilse Breytenbach (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2538

Allowing an informal settlement to be established in the centre of our town lowers property values, increases our risks to property, health, safety and even life.
Do your duty and stop this abomination against the people who pay for our rights.

Pieter Van der Merwe (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2542

Hygiene and people having a better place to live

Linda Thickett (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2543

This is totally unacceptable on so many levels. It affects our town, the surrounding property owners (who is paying quite a bit for the right to own and live in a property!!), young children and any passerby on Durban Road. This has to be solved immediately. Residents are fed-up with non compliant authorities who wish to not see the bigger picture.

Sonja Rossouw (Durbanville, Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2544

Severe increase in crime and litter

Gerhard Nel (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2548

Its a health and security risk.

Pieter Smit (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2550

Get the Red Ants to clear them out of sight

Jerry Groenewald (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2555

Mid -Town looks like a squatter camp... Discusting...

Christa Rosenkranz (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2559

I work in Durbanville town and see this tent population growing daily.

Heather Demblon (Brackenfell, 2022-07-18)

#2561

Not suitable as a human settlement. Environmental hazard due to no toilet amenities, water and electricity. Also sets a president for vagrants to invade public spaces.

Lizelle Koch (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2563

I agree totally with everything Richard Downing has stated in his letter. We do not want an informal settlement in the centre of Durbanville. It is not hygienic with no facilities and not safe for residents of Durbanville. Being municipal grounds, they do not have a right to to camp there. They do not own the land or pay rates for staying there. We have a pride in our town and we pay rates to have it kept neat and clean and not an eyesore. At the rate the tent town is growing, where will it stop? Something HAS to be done now to have them removed.

Catherine Stead (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2572

The inhabiting of public spaces are unlawful and creates health and safety risks when petiole live in areas not equipped and suited for it.
We need local government to intervene and assist that we can find suitable replacement lodging

Willie Viljoen (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2575

It’s bullshit

Gregg Ransby (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2576

I'm signing because the situation has gotten out of hand and it endangers those in Durbanville due to the influx in foot traffic in the area at night.

Samantha Starke (Cape town, 2022-07-18)

#2579

These people need to be assisted and suitable home found for them

Margaux Leon (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2580

I am deeply concerned about the impact "tent city" is having on the health, sanitation & the fire risk at this site & particularly as it is right across the road from a Primary School. The crime in and around our suburb has also escalated at an alarming & unacceptable rate alomg with the safety of ourselves, our young children & our Domestic workers is hugely problematic.

Vanessa Reid (Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2583

Situation is unacceptable

William Wiggill (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2584

We pay hogh taxes in Durbanville, no taxes paid by squatters.
There are no toilets, no running water, no services.
How can this be allowed?

Drikus Viviers (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2586

I'm signing because I have a genuine concern for the proper welfare of the people living in tent town - the system is letting them down or more correctly there is no system and that is what needs to be recognised. That existing leadership is ineffective in this matter. The welfare of rate paying residents is an equal and valid concern and by way of supporting this petition I hope that COCT pays attention to a potential disaster evolving right under their noses.

Eileen Downing (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2588

If action is not taken immediately, then the problem will become an official less formal settlement - a permanent feature. This is not good town and regional planning at all, and residents have invested a lot in their own homes, just to see it depreciate in the face of this fiasco.

Xander Van Breda (Eversdal, 2022-07-18)

#2591

I am living in Durbanville for 35yrs And this is disgusting, filthy and heart braking to see How our beautifull Town goes to waste because of these tents, the people, the higene and by all What must the visitors think when they drive into the town and their first sight is these informal settlements

Koena Loubser (Durbanville Cape Town, 2022-07-18)

#2595

The situation is becoming worse everyday.

Carina Baguley (Durbanville, 2022-07-18)

#2598

I love here.

Laurence du Plessis (CAPE TOWN, 2022-07-18)

#2599

I live close to the school and we have had numerous breakins since they "moved" in, other than that i find it truly unsafe for the kids being so close and the recent spike in child abductions.

Huidrie Marais (Durbanville, Cape Town, 2022-07-18)