SUNCOAST Casino has been ordered to remove the fencing which currently denies people access to the path to the beach.
MP and co-chairperson of Ethics and Members Interest, Omie Singh, told Berea Mail that he had received many complaints from people who regularly cycled and walked on the promenade between uShaka and Blue Lagoon.
He said the thoroughfare to the beach from Suncoast Casino was closed off to the public with speed fencing and a Suncoast Casino security poster prevented access to the beach.
Singh wrote to the eThekwini Parks and Recreation Department of Durban asking if it was legal for a beach to be closed off by a private business, as he believed the municipality owned the thoroughfare to the beach and not Suncoast.
“The beachgoers were being deprived by this closure and had to walk long distances from the car park to get to the beach. Nowhere else in South Africa is there such a thing as a pay beach. Suncoast had no right, as a business, to close it off,” he said.
Singh said he was pleased that the fence had been removed and access ws now available from Suncoast to the beach.
“I’m pleased as I feel appropriate action has been taken. Law enforcement on the beachfront should have been done long ago, even when it is a business that has been breaking the law. It is a victory for beachgoers,” he said.
