Gum trees earmarked for removal in building plans at the top of Wireless Road have been saved by the contractor after the community highlighted their emotional significance and heritage.
This follows community concerns about other gum trees that were chopped down as you enter Kommetjie from the Ocean View side, which developers have been at pains to say was necessary to make way for planned lane extensions and pavements to cope with the extra traffic flow to the current Riverside Village, and the planned Protea Ridge Development, as well as Wireless Road Developments One and Two.
In the words of KRRA Road Safety Team Lead Caro Smit: "We recently received this clear diagram of the development (below), and you can see where the heritage trees should have been cut down but were saved. The area is at the top of Wireless Road, in the open space where the taxis park (Main image)."
Also, in the next week or so, a two metre tar sidewalk, set back by about 1m from the road, will be put in along the Ocean View side of Wireless Road down to the start of the Protea Ridge development, which is being constructed opposite Pelican Place and adjacent the old naval station.
KRRA thanks the developer who listened to our need and agreed to do this now, instead of waiting until the Protea Ridge development had been finished.
The sidewalk will enable people to easily walk or cycle down Wireless and into the current and new suburbs. Waterbessie trees (syzygium cordatum) along Wireless Road will be trimmed below the canopy so people can move under them safely (See vertical image above).
KRRA has in the past tried to stop rampant development in Kommetjie but lost a court bid.
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Good work, thanks!