Statement by the Executive Mayor, Alderman
Patricia de Lille
Intention to ensure that the Sea Point Pavilion remains a
Public Open Space
The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee will later this month consider
a recommendation to Council that it no longer makes erven 151, 153 and
318 Sea Point West, known as the Sea Point Pavilion site, available for
any commercial development.
If approved by Council, the area will remain zoned as Public Open Space
and will serve to bring this unfortunate long-standing process to an end.
The intention to consider this recommendation follows the recent decision
by MEC Anton Bredell that authorisation for the execution of any
development be declined in terms of Section 22 of the Environment
Conservation Act, 1989.
The Sea Point Pavilion has long been used as an interactive space by the
broader Cape Town community. It is a space in which this
administration’s commitment to building an Inclusive City can be realised.
The recommendation will include that any land use application currently
being processed for the above-mentioned erven not be supported,
following due administrative process, on the basis that the envisaged
development is not possible without environmental authorisation, for
other reasons relating to its undesirability and the clear public
disapproval, and by reason of the final liquidation of the aspirant
developer on 11 June 2013.
As part of our efforts to build a responsive City that engages with and
takes cognisance of the views of our residents, and that is committed to
protecting the aesthetic value of Cape Town, we are confident that if
approved by the Mayoral Committee and Council, this decision will be in
the best interests of the city as a whole.
We look forward to the continuation of this prominent feature of the Cape
Town landscape being enjoyed by families from all areas of the city, and
visitors to Cape Town.