Bitter dispute over planned luxury hotel
A battle looms over one of Cape Town’s famed tourist beachfronts where a proposed 101-room hotel has prompted legal action from local ratepayers, reports Sunday Times.
Dust and harsh words are already swirling around the demolition site on the Camps Bay beachfront, which is shaping up to be the front line in a broader spat over Cape Town development planning.
Critics of the planned five-star hotel addition say it will negatively affect the celebrated tourist strip.
‘Nothing about it is good – people are shocked,’ ratepayers’ committee member Chris Von Ulmenstein told the Sunday Times.
The legal dispute hinges largely on the height of the hotel façade, which the Camps Bay and Clifton Ratepayers Association said is 5m higher than the 10m restriction for the suburb.
The association is furious that the ctiy has approved the building departures despite numerous objections.
But the architect insists the five-storey building’s height is legal because it is set back from the front façade.
He says the hotel is a major improvement on the previous building, which has already been demolished.
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