#Johannesburg Inner City Renewal

[Upington]

........not only amazing and heart warming, but for the first time someone is painting a totally different picture of Jozi that the world don't read about in the negative SA press......and what is so beautiful about it is that he is single handedly doing it on his own time and money......thats so humbling.....Pule for President.......


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[Pule]

Hillbrow

[Pule]

I wish some developer could come to the rescue on this ones. I just love them

[Pule]

Work in progress









They have started with work on retail

[DoviJozi]

Originally Posted by Pule

Work in progress

I think the City should introduce some or other form of by-law prohibiting people in residential buildings (and just buildings in general?) from placing satellites on the fronts of the building... alot of buildings in Killarney all have theirs on top of the building or on in one agreed upon section of the building which is least noticable..

[Pule]

Originally Posted by DoviJozi

I think the City should introduce some or other form of by-law prohibiting people in residential buildings (and just buildings in general?) from placing satellites on the fronts of the building... alot of buildings in Killarney all have theirs on top of the building or on in one agreed upon section of the building which is least noticable..

The bylaws that they need to implement is the ones that deals with illigal street traders and those who hangs clothes on their balconies.

[Luf]

Agree to your guys bylaws. Pule thanks once again with your photos! Alwas amazing. Was in the CBD on saterday and saw metro picking up alot of traders goods and packing them away.. seems like things are in progress, but i can only imagine how difficult this is going to be as its the traders income.

[Pule]

Originally Posted by Luf

Agree to your guys bylaws. Pule thanks once again with your photos! Alwas amazing. Was in the CBD on saterday and saw metro picking up alot of traders goods and packing them away.. seems like things are in progress, but i can only imagine how difficult this is going to be as its the traders income.

I think its a lesson to them to take care of the places where they trading. If they keep the place clean and do not disturb the traffic flow, then I will support them.

[joburg]

I think all Joburgers need to go on a compulsory 'How to keep the space around you clean.' As Pule indicates, the only reason why the traders make the city look scruffy is because they don't keep their trading spaces clean. The city can provide as many trading stalls as they can, but at the end of the day if you have a trader who does not care that the pavement infront of him is strewn with lettuce leaves then those stalls are going to be pretty pointless to start with.

[DoviJozi]

Originally Posted by Pule

The bylaws that they need to implement is the ones that deals with illigal street traders and those who hangs clothes on their balconies.

The issue of hanging washing over balconies is usually handled by the building's body corporate. From what I've gathered, most of the buildings in the CBD, Yeoville, Hillbrow etc. are rented out by landlords who aren't particularly fased in enforcing the building's rules and regulations.

[Pule]

Originally Posted by DoviJozi

The issue of hanging washing over balconies is usually handled by the building's body corporate. From what I've gathered, most of the buildings in the CBD, Yeoville, Hillbrow etc. are rented out by landlords who aren't particularly fased in enforcing the building's rules and regulations.

That I know but there are plenty of irrespnsible body corporates out there and I think the city should take a stand and penelise those who do not apply that law in their buildings.

A couple of months ago I posted an article about a guy who owns a couple of buildings in Berea and he has made sure that no one is hanging clothes on balconies in his buildings and if you drive in Berea, you will see that its very different from the normal Hillbrow.

[Luf]

I agree pule, the City should get involved. Another issue i have is that of signage - what you guys think? You know those ugly signs on buildings you see all over town and by the licensing department all those damn driving school etc signs. To me it makes our CBD very taty (spelling?)

But is the councel allowed to decide what can and cannot be done is these buildings, at the end of the day they are private property.

[Pule]

Originally Posted by Luf

I agree Pule, the City should get involved. Another issue i have is that of signage - what you guys think? You know those ugly signs on buildings you see all over town and by the licensing department all those damn driving school etc signs. To me it makes our CBD very taty (spelling?)

But is the councel allowed to decide what can and cannot be done is these buildings, at the end of the day they are private property.

I know them and I concur with you that the city must do something about them. Its the same as this illigal advertising, I don't see what's so difficult about stopping this nonsense from happening as those guys leave their numbers on these adverts, I think the city need to run a 6 months project to tackle all those.

[Pule]

[waltjie]

what is the building in the first picture above?? it is AMAZING!

[Pule]

Originally Posted by waltjie

what is the building in the first picture above?? it is AMAZING!

I don't know the name, it was recently renovated. Next to it there are 2 buildings that are being renovated.

[Jakes1]

That building is Bellvista Flats, if I am not mistaken it is in Bree Street

[joburg]

YAH!!! It's fantastic! Another building I just haven't even seen renovated yet!

[waltjie]

this is so amazing.... wow. imagine having that top apartment with that big-ass balcony... having a braai, beer in the one hand.... amazing!

[Pule]

Originally Posted by Jakes1

That building is Bellvista Flats, if I am not mistaken it is in Bree Street

I thinks its in Plain Steet, by the way if you guys remeber when we took a tour of the CBD we passed a new development in the same plin street next to Universal Church. The boards i up and its gonna be a new Cathedral for Universal Church.

The buidings in that area are historic and they just need to be worked on. That's the part of the city were hawkers need to be given a boot ASAP as they messing it up.