MOULLIE POINT & SEA POINT PROMENADE HIA SEA POINT ERVEN: 153, 151, 604, 837, 838, 1061, 1141, 1143, 1197 AND 1198 CAPE TOWN FINAL REV 1 REPORT: MARCH 2015 HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT SEA POINT PROMENADE SEA POINT CAPE TOWN ERVEN 153, 151, 604, 837, 838, 1061, 1141, 1143, 1197 AND 1198 PROPOSED UPGRADE & MAINTENANCE SUBMITTED TO HERITAGE WESTERN CAPE IN TERMS OF THE NATIONAL HERITAGE RESOURCES ACT NO 25 OF 1999 SECTION 38 (8) HERITAGE WESTERN CAPE CASE NO. 14090215GT0919E DEA&DP REFERENCE NO. 16/3/1/1/A7/24/3049/13 Prepared For CITY OF CAPE TOWN SPATIAL PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN DEPARTMENT ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL & SPATIAL PLANNING DIRECTORATE 16th Floor, Tower Block, Civic Centre 12 Hertzog Boulevard, Cape Town Tel: +27 21 400 9435 Fax: +27 21 425 6495 Email: [email protected] HERITAGE CONSULTANTS PostNet 122 Private Box X1005 Claremont Cape Town (Mobile) 071 1090 900 [email protected] HERITAGE CONSULTANTS BRIDGET O’DONOGHUE AND PETER BUTTGENS IN CONSULTATION 1 MOULLIE POINT & SEA POINT PROMENADE HIA SEA POINT ERVEN: 153, 151, 604, 837, 838, 1061, 1141, 1143, 1197 AND 1198 CAPE TOWN FINAL REV 1 REPORT: MARCH 2015 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The proposed promenade project is the upgrade and maintenance of the The Proemnades significances are at a promenade scale and a individual existing Moullie Point and Sea Point Promenades. The proposed work component and sub precinct scale. These promenade scale cultural includes new paving on existing pathways, new pathways, low walls, significances are Structural components, such as the Sea Wall, Elongated seating, play equipment, planting, shade structures, viewing decks, berms, vegetated open space, Variety of relaxation and out door activities, Multi accesses to beaches, embankments, portions of sea walls, boardwalks and level buildings on Beach road that create the edge of the built environment, proposed art installation areas. View cones across site from elevated areas to sea, views to Lion’s Head and Table Mountain, Intangible heritage (customs, traditions, rituals). On The HIA is submitted under National Heritage Resources Act, No 25 of an individual component and precinct scale the cultural significances are 1999 (NHRA) Section 38 (8) as it is a specialist report within a Basic The Green Point Light House complex, recreation facailities such as the Assessment report (BAR) required under National Environment Blue Train, Putt Putt, execrise facilities, children’s payground equipment, Management Act (NEMA). The site is situated outside of a CCT Heritage natural coastline adjacent to Beach Road, bollards on the sea wall, Protection Overlay Zone (HPOZ). The project triggered a Notification for Landscape features such as Palm avenues, Milkwood trees and significant Intent to Develop (NID) as it consists of over 3 erven and 5000 square buildings and structures. meters. The NID was completed by Asha Consulting (Pty) Ltd and submitted to HWC in September 2014. Heritage design indictaors are developed to guide the development The Moullie Point and Sea Point Promenades extends for the majority of propoeals on each precinct. the coastal edge of these two suburbs for approximately 4km with an area of over 15 000 square meters. The construction of the sea wall during the The recommnedations of the HIA are at proemnade and precinct scale. 1930s was the defining moment which created the large undulating but flat Investigate partnership with the local civic organisations in the green open space which for decades has been one of the most significant management of public facilities and the determination of areas for recreational spaces of Cape Town. The Moullie Point's section of the temporary art installations. Individual precinct recommendations are the promenade has a part where there is no sea wall and therefore contains omission of the boardwalk on Precinct 1, car park paving, reduction in new the only natural sandy beach and rocky shore edged by Beach Road. pathways, signage, planting of additional vegetation in specific areas, installation of showers for the surfing community. The Promenade from Granger Bay to the swimming pool has been divided into eight fairly distinct precincts. These slightly different characters together create a unique urban and seashore experience of metropolitan significance. The Promenade and immediate context is discussed under different themes, which are arranged roughly chronologically, more or less corresponding to distinct periods. These themes are Costal defence works, light houses, shipwrecks, beaches and Pools, Sea Point Railway line, Sea Point Beach front hotels, Sea Moles, sea wall and the promenades and racial segregation and desegregation. HERITAGE CONSULTANTS BRIDGET O’DONOGHUE AND PETER BUTTGENS IN CONSULTATION 2 MOULLIE POINT & SEA POINT PROMENADE HIA SEA POINT ERVEN: 153, 151, 604, 837, 838, 1061, 1141, 1143, 1197 AND 1198 CAPE TOWN FINAL REV 1 REPORT: MARCH 2015 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 TERMS OF REFERENCE: HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT PHASE 2 .............................................................................................. 6 1.5 ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.5.1 ASSUMPTIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.5.2 LIMITATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.6 APPROACH TO THE STUDY ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.7 PROJECT TEAM ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 1.8 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.9 REPORT STRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 SECTION 2 STATUTORY FRAMEWORK 2.1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 ADMINISTRATIVE CONTEXT AND STATUTORY FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................................ 8 2.2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2.2 National Heritage Resources Act No. 25 of 1999 (NHR Act) ...................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2.3 Municipal Policy and Planning Context ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 2.2.4 INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CHARTERS & PUBLICATIONS ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.5 COMMENT ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.2.6 EXISTING HERITAGE SURVEYS AND REPORTS .................................................................................................................................................. 13 SECTION 3 SITE AND CONTEXT DESCRIPTION 3.1 PROMENADE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.1 URBAN CONTEXT ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.2 PRECINCT DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 3.2 SEA POINT, GREEN POINT & MOULLIE POINT PROMENADE THEMATIC ......................................................................................