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Urban Planning
Mixed-income development Goodwood/Parow/Bellville
Agenda #2August 20, 2026
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The Council will consider the proposed granting of in-principle approval for the transfer of City-owned properties at Nassau Street Goodwood, Bedford Road Parow, and Robert Sobukwe/Yellowwood Road/Lilac Crescent Bellville for the purposes of mixed-income development.
The item concerns the City of Cape Town's plan to release City-owned land for mixed-income housing at three sites. These are Nassau Street in Goodwood, Bedford Road in Parow and the Robert Sobukwe/Yellowwood/Lilac Crescent site in Bellville. All three lie along the northern suburbs' Voortrekker Road and Robert Sobukwe Road corridors. These are well-located, established areas close to rail, bus and job centres. I could not retrieve current web sources, so this is general background rather than details from the City's own documents.
Council usually gives "in-principle approval" before any land is transferred, sold or leased. Under the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) and the Municipal Asset Transfer Regulations, a municipality must follow a set process before disposing of a capital asset. That process includes assessing the public interest, the asset's value and the planned use. Council normally resolves in principle first and then runs public participation and a competitive process to select a developer. Final approval comes after that. Approval in principle therefore does not commit the City to a specific project or developer.
"Mixed-income" developments combine subsidised or affordable homes (often rental or social housing) with market-rate units. Cape Town faces a large housing backlog, and it has been trying to use its own well-located land to build affordable housing closer to jobs. This is meant to address apartheid-era spatial segregation and the growing pressure on housing. The policy approach includes Transit-Oriented Development and the release of City land through partnerships with private and social-housing developers. Residents may care about density, traffic, infrastructure capacity and how many units are truly affordable. They may also care about how the land is allocated.
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