Infrastructure
Question by:
Hon Khalid Sayed
Answered by:
Hon Tertuis Simmers
Question Number:
2
Question Body:
- Whether any social housing units have been built on Morningstar Farm no 141 in Philadelphia; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- what are his Department’s plans to build social housing on this land?
Answer Body:
- No social housing units have been built on Morningstar Farm no 141 in Philadelphia. Morningstar Farm no 141 is privately owned by Communicare. The land portion is currently zoned as Agricultural and has no development rights in place. Furthermore, the land parcel currently falls within a ‘Discouraged Development Area’ in terms of the City of Cape Town’s Municipal Spatial Development Framework (MSDF), and therefore the City of Cape Town will not provide the required bulk services to allow any form of development. In addition, the land parcel does not fall within a gazetted Restructuring Zone for the development of social housing.
- The Department has no plans to develop social housing on this land, as the land is not owned by the Department but by, a private company, Communicare.
Date:
Thursday, May 29, 2025
