SA Affordable Housing March - April 2019 // Issue: 75 | Page 24

PROJECTS
1 April 2019. As building commences on
Extension 40, the servicing of 610 stands in
Extension 39 will follow.
More than 10 000 high rise units are
planned in Protea Glen Extension 23 by
developer Afribiz Invest, which will be a mixed
development with bonded and social housing.
In addition to this project, plans are afoot to
relocate 375 beneficiaries that currently live
in the waterworks informal settlement. They
will be relocated to a portion of Extension 23
where they will move into the social housing*
units once completed.
* Social housing is an industry term related
to zoning that refers to density of the
development per hectare; social housing is
specifically limited to a maximum of 40
dwellings per hectare.
WORK OPPORTUNITIES
The magnitude of this residential
development by the developers of SAARDA
has created a huge need for work
opportunities in the area, which has led to the
development of two industrial areas: Protea
Industrial Park and Protea Industrial Park
West. This 479 hectares (ha) of industrial
development is where work opportunities for
local people will be created.
Located on the corner of the N12 national
road and the R558, Protea Industrial Park
(about 129ha) has been sold for the
development of Masingita City. The first phase
is a regional shopping centre of 85 000m²
that will break ground in July 2019. This
development will create an additional 45 000
temporary and 15 000 permanent work
opportunities in the area and bring one of the
largest shopping centres in the country to
Protea Glen.
Also approved in Protea Glen is 350ha of
industrial land, known as Protea Industrial
Park West. This means that all industrial and
commercial development (except chemical
and noxious development) can be carried out
here. The township has been approved, a bulk
sewer line has been installed and runs directly
through the site. Water has connection points
at the corner of the N12 and R558 roads and
at the garage site in Protea Industrial Park
West Extension 3. The electricity line has been
planned and two new substations will be built
in the area – one in Protea Glen Extension
24 and one for the Protea Industrial Park West
development. Protea Industrial Park West will
be surrounded by more than 100 000 newly
developed houses in Protea Glen, Lufhereng,
Syferfontein and Soweto together with
Lenasia and Eldorado Park to house
1.5 million residents.
The Development of Protea Industrial Park
West will continue the current transformation
of Soweto and surroundings from a dormitory
suburb to a business hub.
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The average household income of this area, according to a report conducted
by Urban Econ in 2014, is R8 172 a month.
The newly-built Soweto Day Hospital.
On this land the Protea City Agri Processing Industrial Park and Fresh
Produce Market is planned, which is a project that aims to address job
creation and food security in the heart of Soweto. This R15-billion mega
project that will create 50 000 jobs and enable inclusion of small scale
emerging and commercial farmers and give them export opportunities
to the US, EU and Russia.
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