The City of Cape Town is hosting the fourth virtual meeting to give residents, the community of District Six, and stakeholders and interested parties an update about the year-long project on the public realm

The City of Cape Town is hosting the fourth virtual meeting to give residents, the community of District Six, and stakeholders and interested parties an update about the year-long project on the public realm, otherwise known as the streets and public spaces, of District Six.

The meeting will be hosted online. The details are as follows:

• Monday, 31 January 2022
• From 14:00 to 15:30
• At this meeting, attendees will be informed about the Open House event that took place at the City Hall in December 2021 where the work of the first four Caretaker co-design workshops were exhibited to the public.

  The remaining two co-design workshops will be hosted in February and March, if all goes as planned. At these workshops the City, in collaboration with the nominated Caretakers from District Six, will finalise the list of public spaces and streets to be prioritised for redevelopment in future.

  The workshops will also focus on the guidelines for the look and feel of the public spaces and streets in District Six. The public realm is the spaces between buildings such as streets, squares, green spaces, and pedestrian areas that are freely accessible to the general public.

• ‘To date, the nominated Caretakers have participated in four very productive face-to-face public realm improvement co-design workshops for District Six. Their work was exhibited at the City Hall in December last year. I attended the exhibition and was impressed with the ideas that emerged from the co-design workshops. We are really excited about this collaboration with the nominated representatives from District Six, and the positive comments that came from the Open House. I encourage residents to please attend this next virtual meeting if possible,’ said the City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews.

  The Public Realm Study is to be concluded by 30 June 2022 and will inform the draft Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) or local neighbourhood plan for District Six and the implementation of a prioritised public space flowing from this process.

  The LSDF and related Public Realm Study are aspects that the City can implement. They are separate from, but will enhance the housing project of the National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development that is currently under way as part of the restitution process.

Caption 1: The City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews, visited the exhibition at City Hall where the public viewed the work related to the Public Realm Study for District Six. He met and spoke to some of the residents who attended the exhibition from 9 to 11 December 2021.

Caption 2: The City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews, visited the exhibition at City Hall where the public viewed the work related to the Public Realm Study for District Six. Liezel Kruger-Fountain, an official from the City’s Urban Planning and Design Department explained how the system of public spaces could tie in with the draft local neighbourhood plan for the area.

Caption 3: Many residents attended the exhibition at the City Hall in December 2021 where the public had the opportunity to view the work done to date, in collaboration with District Six Caretakers, on the Public Realm Study for District Six. Alderman Eddie Andrews, the City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, also attended the first day of the Open House on 9 December 2021.

Source: City Of Cape Town