The Glen Fire Watch group is appealing to South Peninsula residents to report overgrown plots to the City Council. Many plots owned by absentee landlords are infested with heavy growths of alien invasive vegetation and are posing a grave fire risk to their neighbourhoods. They also offer hiding places to criminals.
Please Help Reduce Bush Fire Risk
The City of Cape Town have often stated that they welcome participation by South Peninsula communities in helping to reduce fire risk. Please get involved and help make your own neighbourhood safer, by reporting neglected plots or street verges in your area that are overgrown or infested with invasive alien plants. If they are not cleared, they are a very grave fire risk to your home and could provide hiding places for criminals.
It will only take a moment or two of your time - all you need to do is to send an email to the City Council, noting down the street address of the overgrown plot or the erf number and say that you are very concerned and ask for action to be taken urgently. Send your emails to the City of Cape Town at the following address –
(Environmental Health)
and Cc a copy to -
(Fire Safety)
The Council will then serve a notice on the landowner, demanding that they clear their land of invasive aliens and take further action as necessary.
See article on - http://glenroadwatch.southerncrossroads.info/please-help-reduce-the-fire-risk-in-your-neighbourhood/
Steve Coe
Info about a local well trained Alien Vegetation Control and Plot Clearing Team: Reliable, well trained and equipped with tools and herbicide to do a professional job, this team come with excellent references. They provide a real solution for people wanting to clear alien vegetation from their land or to clear a fire break around their property. Employing people to clear alien vegetation is an investment in our natural capital and in local jobs that add real value. Contact Linda Gxilayo’s alien control team on Cell No: . For further information or references or phone on Cel . for more info go to: https://scenicsouth.co.za//2010/11/win-with-recommended-alien-vegetation-contractors/
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Carmen Freeman, July 19, 2012 at 8:06 am
There is an overgrown plot between houses 26 & 22 Gloucester Road Lakeside.It poses a potential fire hazard particularly in the summer months when there are gale force south easters.In all the years Ive stayed in Lakeside, this plot has never been cleared and is starting to look like the Amazon jungle. The owner is apparently deceased and the next of kin unknown. PLEASE HELP!!!
ReplyKim, July 19, 2012 at 12:27 pm
hi Carmen,
You should have received a copy of the email I sent to Mr Gamieldien of Lakeside Environmental Health. Aparently they need to identify who the owner is – if dead then who manages the estate – and serve a notice on the people to clear. If the property is not cleared within the time spesified the City can appoint a contractor and claim expenses from the estate manager / owner.
Good Luck – if it looks like you are getting no where then follow up with your local councillor David D’Alton.
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