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The Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Development Planning, Cllr Belinda Echeozonjoku, recently conducted a site visit of Lehae Library, in the south of Johannesburg, following media reports of the development project being a white elephant since its completion in 2019. At project initiation stage, it became clear to the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), who implemented the project, that the allocated site was not registered, and zoning was therefore not allocated, although a Site Development Plan (SDP) application was made with the Land Use Development Management directorate in January 2017.
Metro Link cordon temporarily lifted to retrieve unprocessed plans
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The MMC for Development Planning, Cllr Thapelo Amad has welcomed a decision by the Department of Labour and Employment to grant the City temporary access to the Metro Link to retrieve rejected building plans.
Town planners and architects have been trying in vain to access their declined applications for buildings, which had been submitted before November last year, yet remained unprocessed because of a few inconsistencies that needed to be corrected.
The submitted building plans have been inaccessible since the Department of Labour and Employment rendered the Metro Link non-compliant with Covid-19 protocols for public buildings. Workers there had complained of inadequate ventilation and frequent water leaks. The office block was then forced to temporarily close to the public for urgent repair work, leaving scores of industry professionals and their clients in the lurch.