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Update: Application for rezoning - Six storey high, dense student housing

In December 2015 we brought to your attention an application for rezoning for a Six Storey High, dense student housing on Streatley Avenue, Auckland Park (opposite Campus Square). We have been informed by the Auckland Park Residents’ Association (APRA) of yet another application to rezone the same property, as the December 2015 application. Rezoning Application 2016-05-09   APRA comments on this application: The site is already zoned ‘Special’ for residential […]

 

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The Heritage Assessment in the Corridors of Freedom

The following is a message from the heritage consultants who have done the heritage impact assessment for the Corridors of Freedom, of which includes Auckland Park, Melville & Westdene. Tsica heritage consultants is pleased to announce that a draft Heritage Impact Assessment for the Corridors of Freedom (Knowledge Precinct) is now available for public comment in hard copy at the Melville Library and online http://bit.ly/Draft_HIAs_and_CMPs and http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/notice/corridors-freedom-project-knowledge-precinct-draft-hia-available-comment. The public is invited […]

 

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Application for rezoning: Six storey high, dense student housing

  Developers have put in an application to change the zoning of the strip of land between Campus Square and Streatley Avenue, Auckland Park, (the empty strip of land north of Campus Square) to allow for six storey high student housing for the University of Johannesburg.   This piece of land was specifically zoned as a buffer zone between the historical residential area, which has +/-6 properties over 100 years […]