The residents claim the new section will devaluate their properties.
Ward councilor Shadow Shabangu doesn’t believe that an informal settlement can devaluate a property.
He claims the settlement is more than 700m away from Struisbult.
“It might have an effect on the value of properties if the shacks are about 10m away from the houses, but they are not,” he says.
He says they started relocating the residents from Section B to the new Section D in 2013.
According to Shabangu it was imperative to move these residents as their shacks were built under Bluegum trees. A Bluegum tree recently fell on one of the shacks and completely destroyed it.
“Luckily there was no one home at the time, otherwise they would have been dead,” he says.
Shadow claims these residents will stay there until other arrangements have been made by the metro to relocate them.
Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe, has however said that there are no proposals for RDP houses to be built in the area.
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