NRPA calls on residents to comment on Municipal Planning By-Law: deadline Friday 25 October NRPA informed residents on the draft amendments to the Municipal Planning By-Law in a well attended session on September 25th. Since then NRPA has participated in multiple sessions with council officials, as founding member of the…
Thank you to NRPA Chairman Bas Zuidberg for a very informative session explaining the new draft Municipal Planning By-Law amendment and its effect on Noordhoek. The session took place at Monkey Valley on Wednesday evening as well as online. Here is the presentation that was used at the session. It…
Please join the NRPA for an information-sharing session covering the new draft Municipal Planning By-Laws and its effect on Noordhoek. The information session will be held this Wednesday, 25 September 2024 at 6 PM at Monkey Valley. Please join if you can. The CoCT has published a new draft amendment to…
NRPA concerned about draft MPBL proposal – information for residents CoCT published a new 2024 Draft Amendment to the Municipal Planning By-Law (MPBL) last month (links at the bottom of this article). The sweeping changes that are proposed have led to a lot of commotion across the city, and NRPA…
“Heritage report and recommendations for Erf 676 Chapman’s Peak (Avondrust Farm – 10 Cardinal Close) In 2023 residents alerted NRPA to unauthorised work on Avondrust Farm, which is a property with historic value for Noordhoek. After intervention from NRPA further construction work was halted pending a formal Heritage Impact Assessment…
Chapman’s Peak Amdec Development The Noordhoek Ratepayers Association and The Noordhoek Environmental Action Group (NEAG) would like to reassure our residents that we are working together to ensure that Amdec are held accountable to adhere to the full environmental plan that was authorised by Province about this development, as we…
As many of Noordhoek residents will recall, the NRPA, along with 50 residents and other civic organisations, objected to the planning application to rezone and subdivide the Caravan Park property on Noordhoek Main Road. In our opinion the resulting erf sizes (500-1000m2) were in contradiction with the Local Area Overlay,…
On Monday 17th April, 2023 the NRPA hosted an information evening about the 2022 Municipal Valuation Roll. The attached presentation and document were used to inform residents on how to be (more) effective in objecting to the valuation of their property. Property owners have until 30th April to object. Those considering…
NRPA newsletter – July 2022 Alien vegetation in and around Noordhoek Together with NEAG and Project Noordhoeked, NRPA has been mapping areas with alien vegetation infestations within the Noordhoek valley. Based on this ‘heat map’ we have been approaching (neighbouring) land owners to appeal to their responsibility and to…
Application for subdivision and consolidation: remainder portion 1 of Cape Farm 934, and portion 67 of Cape Farm 934, 1 Willowfield Street Noordhoek and 9 Silvermine Road Noordhoek (Cape Point Vineyards) The NRPA has received a planning application for Farm 934 (Cape Point Vineyards) requesting a consolidation of portions 1…
