UPDATE: City unable to accept Craigavon’s #BushBabiesPetition
JOBURG – The online petition, which was created by the Waterford community a few weeks ago, received over 12 000 signatures.
Update, 26 June, 12.20am
The City of Joburg was unable to accept the petition brought forward by Susanna Volland today as the issue is still with the tribunal. A petition can be submitted if the tribunal decides to approve the development on the stretch of land in Craigavon that the bush babies currently inhabit.
The full details will be provided in next week’s issue of the Fourways Review, week ending 6 July.
Earlier, 26 June, 11am:
An online petition was started by Craigavon’s Waterford Estate residents who are concerned with the fate of the last bushbabies left in Johannesburg.
The area where the animals currently live lies between the Waterford Estate and the Shining Stars Preschool off Witkoppen Road, in a small area between buildings. The stretch of land has been earmarked for residential development, with about 13 houses proposed to be built. Residents from the area have been protesting the plans since August last year.
Susanna Volland, one of the main challengers of the plans, will be handing over the petition to the City of Joburg.
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Volland said, “We sincerely believe that with so many thousands objecting [to the development] we will be successful in our objective to stop the development and save the last of the green areas in Fourways, which are disappearing fast, and most importantly the bushbabies whose habitat is shrinking so fast that they will die.”
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