Big expansion for Klapmuts in pipeline
2006-03-09
RAPID expansion of Klapmuts is on the cards, with a number of applications for rezoning and subdivision currently under consideration by the Stellenbosch Municipality.
A total of 48 erven between the Old Paarl Road and the railway line in the vicinity of the Klapmuts Hotel are due for development by various owners.
One of these sites has been earmarked for a small shopping centre and service station at the four-way stop on the Stellenbosch/Paarl intersection.
An application for the rezoning has been submitted to Stellenbosch Municipality by developers Lyndall Erasmus and Leslie Steyn.
The centre, in a traditional Cape style, will be known as De Werf. It will include a supermarket as anchor tenant. Construction is due to start in April.
Another developer, Francois Klomp, is due to develop the entire farm Groenefontein south of Klapmuts.
The 38 hectares farm is to be subdivided into about 1000 erven, with about 14 business erven along the R44 between Merchant Street and the Potbelly Pantry.
The street front is being designed by well-known architect Hannes Meiring.
The development will include 260 smaller erven with affordable housing intended for farmworkers including those on Klomp’s farm Freedom Hill in Wemmershoek.
Other investors in this section include farmers of the Simonsberg area who wish to grant their workers property rights.
These erven of 200 to 230 square metres will retail for about R50 000, and houses will start at 36 square metres in size.
Further south will be an extended private development including group housing and an old age home. Provision will also be made for a high school, nursery schools and church.
Approval for the development of the Stellenbosch Winelands estate at the foot of Klapmuts Hill offering more than 1900 upmarket housing units west of the town, could be granted if it receives the go-ahead from the Department of Agriculture. The developer is Herman Steyn.
It will include the Klapmuts Hill Residential development with controlled access on 75 hectares, as well as country estate houses further west.
Also in the pipeline are the Rosenmeer development by Gielie du Toit, north of the Klapmuts Sentra supermarket, and the proposed development of the 13 hectare farm Uitkomst next to the N1 by the Livingstone-Louw family. Agriculture will continue on the farm.
In addition, the development of about 28 hectares earmarked for industrial development along the Old Paarl Road at the western end of Klapmuts has been awarded to Zacke Developments.
The wine estate Anura has submitted an application to develop about 150 erven (60 freestanding erven and some semi-detached units).
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