Cape STORM in a TEA CUP
Well, the proposed new Chapman’s Peak Toll Booth and Offices have caused a huge storm here in Hout Bay. A huge march to the site took place yesterday to show the communities concern. Personally I think the proposal is actually quite sensitive and sympathetic, the current set up is actually an embarrassment for such an attraction. Faded plastic cream toll booths siting so high up that you can barely reach up to pay your money and metal containers for offices. I don’t think many of the protesters work in such circumstances. Everyone is up in arms about building in a national park but almost all parks need support buildings in order to entice the public in and carry out the running of the park.
Things have gone a little skew when a two storey building with the top floor set back is called an office block. The cost of the buildings also needs to be put into perspective, the building and tolls cost R13m, but fair enough the overall cost is R53m, but come on, in the scope of things this is nothing when you consider other projects country wide. Maybe the protesters should be lobbying the government department which funds housing. Just my thoughts!
