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PARKMORE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Parkmore, Sandton, South Africa
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"Working with You"
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Parkmore
Precinct Plan
Public Participate and Comment Request |
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On Wednesday 6th February 2008, the PCA
held a Public meeting related to a
Precinct Plan for Parkmore to be
submitted to Council by the PCA on
behalf of Parkmore. The meeting
was held at Montrose Primary School and
we had almost 100 interested parties
attend.
We felt that all Residents and Business
Owners should have sight of what was
discussed on the night, together with
the suggested alternatives. A
number of you may already have received
copies of the alternatives via email and
hopefully would have responded.
PDFs for Download.
1)
Presentation
2)
Precinct Plan Alternative 1
(Preferred by Craig Pretorius and the
PCA)
3)
Precinct Plan Alternative 2Kindly
download and review the above PDFs and
send your choice to Craig Pretorius,
from Urban Terrain, at
crog@netactive.co.za. Should you
wish to add suggestions or voice
concerns, please feel free to do so.
This should also be sent to Craig.
We thank you in advance for your
co=operation in this regard. |
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Parkmore Community Improvement District
Initiative |
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The Parkmore Community
Association (PCA) is a voluntary
association of residents within the
Parkmore Village area. One of our
primary aims and objectives is to watch
over and protect the interests of the
ratepayers of Parkmore. To accelerate
this process, the PCA is working to
establish a CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
(CID), with Kagiso Urban Management as
consultants to advise and assist with
the process.
Recently the PCA launched a 'Safe and
Clean' initiative along 11th Street,
engaging cleaners to clean and monitor
waste along that stretch. This has been
well received by businesses along 11th
Street.
There are currently 16 legislated CID’s
within Gauteng, the first totally
residential CID in Berea, Johannesburg,
was legislated in August 2007 . Managed
environments offer friendly, clean and
safe conditions that are a prerequisite
for investment and growth. Improvement
districts have led to the provision of
managed environments, in conjunction
with municipal departments, and are a
proven tool in the fight to achieving
improved service delivery, and
‘ownership’ of your own suburb. Through
these mechanisms property and business
owners have seen phenomenal growth in
their investments. The Braamfontein
district has seen A-grade property
rentals grow approximately 20%. The
Rosebank Management District is one of
our longest-running CID’s and Sandton
Central manages the Sandton business
district, Sandton Convention Centre and
the Wierda Valley area.
As residents or business owners in the
Parkmore community it is important to us
that your support and input to our plans
is gained.
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Please find below the presentations from
the PCA CID Meeting held at Montrose on
the 24 October |
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PCA Community Protection Presentation -
Parkmore Village Crime Overview
(455Kb) - Presented by Errol Westoll
(CID) |
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KUM Parkmore CID Process & Perception
Survey Results (7.239Kb) - Presented
by Ashley Holman (Kasigo Urban
Management) |
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Complaints
Procedure - The best process to
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| Complaints, such as,
burst water pipes, electricity supply
disruptions, grass verges that need
cutting, refuse which has not been
removed, illegal dumping, traffic
problems, illegal hawker problems,
vermin removal, and any other issues
which the authorities should be made
aware of, must first be made to the
Metro
Council Peoples Centre |
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PCA - COIN
Community Protection Project |
As you no doubt are all aware
Coin Security Group is the Parkmore
Community Association security partner
having accepted and signed
the PCA community protection / security agreement.
We thank all the residents and business
owners who are fully supporting this
initiative. We are growing from
strenght to strenght daily and a fast
approaching 200 house!
We are urging all resident or
business owner to support the PCA and to switch from their existing
armed response service (e.g SAS, ADT) to
join our community focused security partner
Coin.
Already two dedicated PCA-Coin community protection
vehicles have been deployed in
Parkmore. But with more support we
can do much, much more! We
need your direct support on this matter!
The Parkmore Coin Sales & Marketing
representative whom can
be contacted to sign the necessary agreements
is:
Alternatively contact Mike Cann our PCA village
manager on 011 784 5436 (w) or
082 377 4143 (w) or
manager@parkmore.org.za.
Complaints / Feedback / Escalation
Whilst COIN in Parkmore continuously
strives to achieve high levels of
service should you be dissatisfied in
anyway please feel free to escalate any
issues with Coin Parkmore management and
the PCA.
Click
here for contact details.
The PCA meets weekly with Coin and is
able to discuss and quickly resolve
issues / matters with Coin that are
brought to our attention. Coin
actively works in partnership with us
for the benefit of all in Parkmore!
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PARKMORE -
CRIME PREVENTION COMMITTEE - CRIME REPORT
(JAN-JUN 2007)
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Crime Report section compiled by
the PCA Crime Prevention Committee
with the co-operation of Coin, SAS and
SAPS. The PCA is concerned by the
number of driveway robberies and
hijacking which can be reduced by the
use of "Meet & Greet" facilities offered
by security providers in Parkmore such
as Coin. |
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Be
Kept Informed !! Join the PCA Email
Newsletter! |
The PCA Email Newsletter
is intended for the Parkmore Community
Association to quickly and effectively
communicate via email to
ALL Parkmore
Residents and Business Owners
irrespective of whether you are a PCA
member or not. Our goal
is to provide communication to relevant
to Parkmore to interested parties
Please feel free to subscribe with
multiple (home & work) email addresses
for the all members of the household or
business. Please also encourage your
friends and family in Parkmore to
subscribe via sending an email with the
subject Subscribe to
enews@parkmore.org.za.
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Parkmore
Community
Improvement District (CID) |
| The Parkmore Community Association, in conjunction with Kagiso
Urban Management, is progressing with the establishment of a
City Improvement District incorporating Parkmore, New Brighton,
Sandhurst Ext. 1, Hurlpark, and Dalecross, and also encompassing
the George Lea and Field & Study Parks.
For more information please visit our
CID section. |
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PARKMORE'S WAR ON
WASTE !!! |
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Parkmore’s Zero Waste
Team are (from left): Jimmy Tsigo,
George Sebako, Brendan
Byrne, Sam Mbiza, Keith Quiding, Ishmael
Bothlolo. |
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Parkmore’s Zero Waste
Initiative is expanding to include all
the households and businesses in the
Parkmore Village.
Previously, the intrepid Zero Waste
Collection Agents –Jimmy, George, Sam &
Ishmael - only collected recyclable
material from the area between Grayston
Drive and Olympia Avenue. But, with the
addition of another trike, they are now
also able to cover the area from Olympia
down to the Sandton Field and Study
Centre.
Sporting their new yellow and black
regalia, they will be cycling around
Parkmore collecting all manner of
recyclables (cardboard, newspaper,
magazines, cans, glass and plastic
milk/cold drink bottles) and taking them
up to the PCA’s Waste Recycling Site (in
the parking area at 129, 10th street,
next to the Medical Centre).
The Zero Waste Initiative has been run
by Keith Quiding (the PCA’s Business
Lead) for the last few years, who was
joined this year by Brendan Byrne. They
both believe very strongly in the need
for all communities to adopt such
recycling programs, and are intent on
increasing the scale of Parkmore’s
current waste recycling.
Parkmore’s Zero Waste Initiative
currently takes over 180 tons of waste
per year out of landfills and puts the
recyclable material back into the
production system, thus alleviating a
great deal of pressure put on our
already constrained environment.
Plans are afoot to combine the recently
assigned 11th Street Cleaners with the
Zero Waste team, so as to make for a
complementary service supervised by a
CID manager.
We urge all Parkmore residents and
businesses to keep all their recyclables
aside in a box or container and call the
Zero Waste team (number below) to come
by and collect these when full.
If you have any queries please don’t
hesitate to call Brendan on 082
498-0172. |
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ENVIRONMENT - ESKOM
/ CITY POWER - SERVITUDE CLEAN-UP -
MARIE ST, PARKMORE |
| A huge thank you must go
from the PCA Committee to Richard
Finlayson (PCA Environmental Lead) for
his tireless efforts to get the massive
illegal dumping on the Marie Street
Eskom / City Power servitude cleaned up
and for his and Brian Robertson's (PCA
Chairman) efforts to engage City Parks
to beautify this servitude.
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Massive illegal
dumping at corner of Marie & 12th under
power lines |
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Eskom appointed
contractor undertaking clean up
operations. |
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Richard Finlayson
(PCA Environmental Lead), on far left,
with Ludwig & Co from
City Parks discussing planting of trees.
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PCA
SAFE & CLEAN
INITIATIVE |
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The PCA launches safe &
clean initiative in business sections in
11th.
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Back: Brendan
Stone (Kagiso Urban Management), Ewald
Muller (PCA CID Project Leader), Keith
Quiding (PCA Business Leader & Zero
Waste)
Front: Patrick Ziwane, Patrick
Ngobasa, Brian Robertson (PCA Chairman). |
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PCA Finances
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| The PCA finance portfolio is
committed to transparency and good
governance.
Please find the
December
2007 Income Statement and
December
2007 Balance Sheet available for download. |
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SECURITY TIPS &
GUIDES
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The
SAPS
has a number of
safety tips
on their website as part of their crime
prevention initiatives. It
worthwhile visiting their site for
information.
The SAPS also has a PDF
manual
for Community Based Crime Prevention
available.
The HGC HERITAGE FOUNDATION has also
made available a document entitled:
What to do in a crime situation
Also please visit our
Security Strategies
webpage to ensure your home is safe
while you are away! |
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TRAFFIC REPORT |
| The PCA traffic
portfolio being concerned with the every
increasing traffic in Parkmore
contracted Techworld to undertake
an initial phase 1 study towards
providing recommendations to the PCA
around traffic calming measures.
Please feel free to download the
report. The PCA would welcome
any comments and input to this document
via email to
manager@parkmore.org.za |
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Domestic Workers Watch - "Make A Difference"
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"For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good folk to do
nothing"
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Hands-on training of our domestic workers and the role the they
play in improving our security in Parkmore is another PCA focus - certain
Wednesday's every month with Penny Steyn, an independent training facilitator,
at Sandton Sports Club, George Lea Park, with the active support of the SAP and
SAS.
Click here
for more information.
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