Who owns the noisy alarm in Paulshof?
PAULSHOF - PAULSHOF residents have to contend with an eardrum-splitting blare at dawn emitted by an alarm that apparently has no owner.
Local resident Karolynn van Vuren wrote to Ward 106 councillor Stephen Moore to register her displeasure over the noisy alarm which seems to be going berserk every morning.
Moore told Fourways Review that he took the matter up with City Parks, the entity in charge of the Rietfontein Reserve where the alarm is allegedly being triggered.
City Parks spokeswoman, Jenny Moodley said the alarm was not owned by the entity but was on a private fence bordering the reserve.
“That alarm belongs to a private company, we have nothing to do with it,” said Moodley.
An official from FreeMe Wildlife Rehabilitation non-profit organisation which shares the fence with the reserve, distanced himself from the issue of the alarm.
In a written communication to another resident Jane Callebaut, FreeMe managing director Margo Bansda said the alarm belongs to the Reitfontein Reserve.
“It seems that you are a little mistaken. The alarm that has been going off endlessly is that of the reserve [City Parks] and not FreeMe,” said Bansda.
Callebaut had written to Bansda accusing him of ignoring residents’ pleas to switch off the noisy alarm.
“I find it absolutely unbelievable that although you have been advised, e-mailed and phoned etc (lost count of how many times) that still your alarm continues at all hours in the night and morning with nobody attending to it,” said Callebaut.
The million-dollar question boggling the minds of the residents is: Who owns the noisy alarm?
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