A three-storey development is planned for Panorama, according to a land-use application.
The public have until Saturday March 28 to comment on the proposed development on the corner of Hennie Winterbach Street and Panorama Road.
The application calls for the consolidation of two plots (erven 1609 and 1610) there and the rezoning of the consolidated property from single residential to local business 2.
The application also requests that vehicles be allowed to reverse across the pavement into parking bays.
The plot in Hennie Winterbach Street is vacant, but the development calls for the demolition of 88 Panorama Road, which runs parallel to Rothschild Boulevard.
The proposed three-storey development will have 22 flats, five medical suites and 66 on-site parking bays.
An ophthalmologist and a dentist have practices next to the empty plot in Hennie Winterbach Street.
Across the road is an office block with bakery, a barbershop, an audiologist’s practice and empty medical and office suites. Across Rothschild Boulevard are Northlink Tygerberg Campus and a sports field.
Applicant Martin Scott, of Milnerton-based Bettesworth Scott Urban and Environmental Planners, said the development was in line with the City of Cape Town’s densification plan.
The first storey is level with Panorama Road and vehicle access into this parking area will only be possible from this road.
The first storey will provide 47 secure undercover parking bays for occupants of the flats and the doctors and staff of the medical suites.
Internal stairs will give access to the flats and medical suites above.
Nine on-site visitor parking bays will be provided along the Panorama Road street boundary.
The second storey will accommodate eight flats and five medical suites.
This storey is level with Hennie Winterbach Street and will be set back to accommodate 10 secured on-site parking bays for visitors to the medical suites with direct (left-in left-out) vehicle access off Hennie Winterbach Street.
The medical suites all have direct access from the parking area to ensure that patients do not have to walk through the residential area for treatment.
The flats will get external access with stairs going down to the Panorama Road street level.
The centrally located stairs and passages will provide access to the first and third storeys and the front doors of the flat units.
A secondary entrance/fire escape on the south-eastern boundary will provide access to the secured backyard.
The third storey will accommodate 14 flats positioned around a central stairwell and passages.
Ward councillor Cheryl Visser said the Klein Panorama community had received letters about the development.
Johann Kruger of the Klein Panorama Homeowners Forum said he is happy with the rezoning. We suggest that the entrance to new development must be from Hennie Winterbach street because at present the taxi rank is situated at this spot and it is causing many problems concerning flow of traffic.
Alternatively a new taxi rank must be found to accommodate them.
l Residents who wish to make an objection can do so on the city’s website, capetown.org.za, using reference number 70493238.