South Africa: It s Toad Versus Road in the Western Cape High Court
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Environment group goes to court to block wetland road project
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The long-running attempt by the City of Cape Town to build a new road link along the edge of the environmentally sensitive Noordhoek wetlands in the Southern Peninsula has been given the green light by the provincial government.
But a high court application could still stop the project in its tracks – as happened in 2004 when then Western Cape environment MEC Tasneem Essop pulled the plug.
On 15 March, environment MEC Anton Bredell signed a letter dismissing appeals against his department’s approval of the second phase of this major two-phase road project.
However, just 48 hours later, lawyers for the Noordhoek Environmental Action Group (NEAG) submitted a 387-page application to the Western Cape high court challenging eight key elements in Bredell’s September 2020 approval of phase one of the new road and asking for the approval to be reversed.