4×4 trail follows detour | News24

The Claremont Bowling Club’s member clubhouse continues to be vandalised as the application to temporarily convert the erf into an adventure park goes on. In an ironic twist, the driver behind the proposal to temporarily use the property at 13 Bowwood Road in Claremont for a 4×4 off-road adventure park has discovered that, like the planned trail, the municipal application process is strewn with obstacles.On-site notice by the City of Cape Town at the grounds formerly occupied by the Claremont Bowling Club gave residents until Saturday 13 February to comment on the application for temporary land-use departure in terms of the Cape Town Municipal Planning by-law, 2015: erf 177827 Cape Town. If all had gone to plan, the findings of the public participation process should have been finalised at a Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) on Monday 17 May.Rashaad Carlsen, the lessee of the vacant property in Bowwood, says that one week before his application was meant to be deliberated at the MPT meeting, he was notified the item had been removed from the agenda.“We were geared for it. Having addressed the concerns raised by the public participation process, we were certain the decision would be ratified, which would have been…
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