WETTON LANSDOWNE ROAD PHILIPPI

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WETTON - LANSDOWNE ROAD PHILIPPI CORRIDOR

• One of the corridors identified in the MSDF
  (1995)
• Accepted by National Department of Transport as
  a
• one of the demonstration project in
  collaboration with
• provincial, metropolitan and local
  authorities
• Classic example of area - based projects which
  has
• moved from conception to implementation
  within a
• short period of time (5 years)
• Dedicated technical staff within Cape Town
• Municipality
• Separate budget
• Lacked political champion (Now in the process
  of
• convening a political committee)
• Lacked Marketing Strategy
• Extensive Community Workshops
• A particular approach to planning which
  combined
• planning and implementation

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HOW WE CAN IMPROVE ON THE CONCEPT
1. CURRENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING
PROCESSES - New Metropolitan Strategies
- Development Strategy - Service
Delivery Strategy, Institutional Strategy
People - centred development
4. GOOD GOVERNANCE - Emphasize on
interrelationships - Role of Developmental
Local Government

• 5. EMPHASIZE STRATEGIC PRIORITIZATION
• - Economic growth vs Poverty Alleviation
• - Social Sustainability vs Environmental
• Sustainability
• - Limited Resources vs Redistribution

Assessment of other metropolitan frameworks
based on the visions, strengths, weaknesses and
identify areas of possible alignment systems are
operating in a sea of poverty - Call for more
co-ordination and integration of the frameworks
2. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION - More cross -
functional multi-sectorial projects to
identified - Area - based e.g.
Wetton-Lansedowne Rd, Atlantis etc
3. METROPOLITAN INTEGRATED PLANNING PROCESS
- Promote Integration of budgets of related
projects e.g. Transport subsidies
integrated with Housing subsidies ?
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CHALLENGES

• HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
• National housing policies remain
  inappropriated
• Poor location of low cost housing developments
• Increase rate of growth of informal settlements
• Subsidies no longer cover public or shared
• facilities
  

• PRIVATE INVESTMENT
• Large scale projects locating outside the
• corridors or commercial nodes

• ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
• Largely linked to the new developments,
• occuring outside the corridors on
  greenfields

• DECLINE IN PROVISION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT
• Fragmentation, inefficient subsidy system
• funding

• STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLANS ARE REQUIRED

• Co-ordination and integration of area based
• multifunctional projects

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