Infrastructure
With reference to the Cape Town inner-city social housing development:
- Which parcels of land has been (a) earmarked for inner-city social housing development and (b) successfully developed as inner-city social housing units since the start of the sixth administration;
- whether there any known factors that limit the development of inner-city social housing; if so, what are the relevant details?
(1)(a) The following land parcels, owned by the Department of Transport and Public Works, have been earmarked for inner-city social housing development and are in differing stages of development:
- Founders Garden (Artscape Precinct)
- Leeuloop
- Oude Molen
The following land parcels, owned by the City of Cape Town (CoCT), have been earmarked for inner-city social housing development and are in differing stages of development:
- Salt River Market
- Pickwick Road
- Pine Road
- Dillon Lane
- Woodstock Hospital
- Woodstock Hospital Park
- New Market Road
- Fruit and Veg site
(b) The Social Housing Projects developed to date, unfortunately falls slighty outside the CoCT Inner City boundary which is guided by the mapping for the City’s Restructuring Zones (RZs) and more specifically, the CBD and surrounding RZs defined as according to the CoCT's RZs in terms of its roles and responsibilities set out in section 5(d) (i) of the Social Housing Act, 2008. The CoCT has reviewed the delineation of the RZs to align better with the strategic direction of the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework (MSDF), therefore the Social Housing Projects like Drommedaris and Bothasig in Milnerton, Maitland Mews in Maitland, and Conradie in Pinelands unfortunately does not count as Inner City due to it being outside of the RZs.
(2) Inner-city land parcels often encounter high enablement costs due to site topography and adverse geotechnical condition, that affects the overall project viability. Additional grant funding for these adverse types of conditions is not currently included in the social housing financial model. Achieving the required project viabilities is therefore challenging on these inner-city sites.
