Cornubia Mixed-Use Phased Development, Phase 2, Mount Edgecombe Final Environmental Impact Assessment Report 24 February 2015

KZN EDTEA Reference No.: DM/0030/2012

Document Description

Client:

Tongaat Hulett Developments and eThekwini Municipality

Project Name:

Environmental Impact Assessment for the Proposed Cornubia Mixed-Use, Phased Development, Phase 2, Mount Edgecombe

Royal HaskoningDHV Reference Number:

E02.DUR.000375

Authority Reference Number:

DM/0030/2012

KZN/EIA/000762/2012

Compiled by:

Humayrah Bassa (Pr.Sci.Nat.)

Date:

24 February 2015

Location:

Durban

Reviewed by: Signature:

Prashika Reddy (Pr.Sci.Nat.)

Approved by: Signature:

Malcolm Roods (EAPSA)

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission from Royal HaskoningDHV.

FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT

Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) would like to thank all Interested and Affected Parties (I&APs) for their continued participation and input into this Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. The comments received to date have proven invaluable to this process and we do appreciate your time and effort.

The Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) was made available for comment from 24 November 2014 until 26 January 2015. The Final EIAR has been made available for review and comment for a further 21 days from Wednesday, 25 February 2015 to Wednesday, 18 March 2015.

All comments which were received have been critical in the finalisation of this Final EIAR. The comments received to date are included in an Issues Trail which is provided in Appendix H.

The Final EIAR has now been submitted to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA) for acceptance. The details of the assessing officer for this application is provided below:

Ms. Yugeshni Govender Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs Private Bag X54321 Durban 4000 Tel: 031 328 9368 E-mail: [email protected]

Any further comments on this report must be sent directly to Ms. Yugeshni Govender at the KZN EDTEA and all correspondence must be copied to the Environmental Assessment Practitioner:

Ms. Humayrah Bassa Royal HaskoningDHV 6 Payne Street, Pinetown, 3606 Tel: (031) 719 5551 Fax: (031) 719 5505 E-mail: [email protected]

Executive Summary

Introduction and Background Tongaat Hulett Developments and the eThekwini Municipality, on their own respective properties, propose to develop a mixed-use, phased development on the remainder of Cornubia. The Cornubia Phase 2 site area is located west of the N2 toll road and north of the Mount Edgecombe/ M41 freeway within eThekwini Municipality. The Cornubia Mixed-Used Phased Development (hereafter referred to as the Greater Cornubia Development) aims to leverage, assemble, and systematically align multiple institutional, financial, human and managerial resources, in a creative and innovative manner, covering aspects such as informal settlement eradication, inter-and intra-settlement integration, urban restructuring and renewal, densification, tenure diversification, improved settlement design, better quality shelter, poverty eradication, and greater responsiveness to livelihood strategies. The Greater Cornubia Development is about “Breaking New Ground” through the creation of Integrated Human Settlements. These are key components of Cornubia and relate directly to the strategic mandate of Government, its constitutional obligations and the priorities of creat