Brendan van der Merwe
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Aug 20
News in July 2013
Wow! How time flies! We have now officially moved into the second half and third quarter of 2013. What a year it has been for development within the local area. The Happy Valley formal housing development, the New Home Choice Development, the Busmark 2000 Development, the Maxman / Heritage Castings development, the new extensions to …
Jun 09
NEWSFLASH! Winter Preparedness Programme
The City of Cape Town has rolled out its Winter Preparedness Programme in anticipation of the coming winter season – rain, sleet and snow (although not as much snow). Blackheath has not been left out. The last few weeks has seen the council flattening and hardening the gravel verges and clearing the storm water canals …
Jun 09
Astrosec
We have a new “big brother” coming to town as Astrosec sets its sights on Blackheath. Situated on the corner of Wimbledon Road and Heath Circle, a new control room is being set up to act as Astrosec’s eyes and ears for its new security operations. The control room will enable Atrosec to offer a …
Jun 09
New Street lighting for Warrior Crescent and Utilis Street
Often things happen that we cannot avoid; people break things, lights go out or things just really need to get done that we need the City of Cape Town to help us out with. These are just a few things taken care of this month (there are many more): Street lights are being fixed around …
Jun 09
May 2013 – Keep it Clean, Keep it Green!
Cleansing Just as we keep working to maintain the area so we keep you posted on our progress. May has seen several focal points addressed. Firstly, we finished cleaning up the massive mess on the corner of Artisan Way and Wimbledon Road that was left by a container many months back. We can all be …
Jun 09
May 2013 – Keeping you up-to-date
Online A reminder to all that we have a Facebook page up and running. We would love to see you all liking it and keeping up-to-date with our weekly happenings. Follow the link and join up. Otherwise pass on the message and get everyone in your company to join. We are all a part of …
May 06
Keeping you up-to-date
Online Updates: Simply Easy We here at BCID like to keep you up-to-date regularly; so apart from this newsletter we have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blackheath-City-Improvement-District/163386323677478) up and running. Liking the page and following our posts will allow you to see and hear what is happening on a weekly basis. It will also give you the …
May 06
Home-Away-From-Home: Keep it Clean, Keep it Green!
Cleansing City Improvement is our name and cleaning is (part) of our game. We cleansed all the streets in Blackheath again this month with additional help from the City of Cape Town’s Cleansing staff who also worked through the area in April. Our guys really tackled Blackheath this month – not only with regular litter …
May 06
EcothermSA
While they are not new to the family by any means, as EcothermSA has been a part of the Blackheath footprint for quite a while; it is still wonderful to have such a green, clean environmental machine with us. If you are not already aware, EcothermSA manufactures geysers – Duratherm and Solartherm. Duratherm geysers have …
May 06
Happy Valley Housing Project: Monthly Update – April 2013
Another month is behind us and the Happy Valley Housing Project keeps moving forward. We have jumped from 560 to 660 houses handed over. 822 of the shells have already been completed though, with the finishing touches underway as we speak. After speaking with the Civils side of the project they have indicated that roads, …