The City’s Coastal Management Branch is currently refurbishing the access to Long Beach in Simon’s Town. This includes resurfacing a portion of the Long Beach parking area. To facilitate the resurfacing and ensure public safety, the parking area will be closed for a few days, pending favourable weather conditions to conduct the work.

The closing of the parking area is planned from 19:00 on 22 May 2022 until 18:00 on 23 May 2022.

The work at the Long Beach parking area commenced on 4 April 2022 and forms part of the revamp of walkways in the Far South.

The project includes repairs to a damaged brick wall that used to demarcate the beach and protect the infrastructure from sand movement alongside the Long Beach parking lot.

Access to the beach will also be repaired.

‘This project is progressing well and residents and beachgoers can look forward to improved aesthetics, functionality and safe access to the beach. I also want to appeal to residents and motorists to please consider using alternative locations along the coast for their recreational activities while construction is under way. This will help minimise disruptions and ensure that the project is completed within the scheduled time. Once complete, the works will provide a significantly improved coastal experience and recreational space to the benefit of all users,’ said the Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews.

Importantly, at Long Beach, the City can only repair the City portion of the land which covers about 30% of the area as the rest of the parking area is owned by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). 

Source: City Of Cape Town