The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF) has joined a number of Parkview residents and the Parkview Residents Association (PRA) in objecting to a proposed development in Dundalk Avenue (number 63, 65 and 67).
The Rosebank Killarney Gazette discussed the opposition of residents and the PRA as well as a response from GE Town Planning in the article Proposed Parkview development raises concerns, [Week ending 12 July].
This week, JHF’s Flo Bird discussed her objections to the rezoning of these properties in Dundalk Avenue from Business 4 to Business 1, particularly zoning in on the proposed demolition of three old houses.
Bird described the houses as ‘an integral part of the special streetscape of that block in Dundalk Avenue, which is of special heritage value’.
Bird explained, “When the properties were rezoned in 2011 from Residential 1 to Business 4, the existing houses had to be retained and alterations had to be residential in character. Clearly, the City regarded the retention of the houses as crucial to the change in use.”
She described the retention of these houses as a ‘positive contribution to the community’, since they share a scale and spatial relationship typical of Parkview before the increase in property values.
Bird’s objection also included a reference to the fact that the oldest of the three houses dates back to 1911 and the site is near to the Parkview Post Office and Christian Science Church, which have been identified and graded Category B, which equates them to Provincial Heritage Sites.
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