The Mangaung Metro Municipality used underhanded tactics to push through development, says the Friends of the Seven Dams Conservancy.
One of Bloemfontein’s most valued areas, The Seven Dams Conservancy, will be partly sold to make way for a housing development, according to concerned residents, who say the local municipality has failed to follow the rules in the sale.
“The decision to dispose of 25% of the conservancy is extremely short-sighted and in clear conflict with the demands of their own Urban Open Spaces Policy,” said chair of the group, Advocate Jo Hiemstra. “It is a contemptuous slap in the face of the community they are supposed to serve, but who they have completely ignored, and is so unreasonable that one can only conclude that there are ulterior motives.
“The proposed housing developments will eradicate all existing indigenous plants. It will also destroy the bedrock by extensive excavation and use of explosives,” he said. “In what we believe to have been a very intentional and underhanded tactic, a notice was posted at the beginning of the holiday season to call for public participation and comment on the new proposed development.”
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