Plans to build the multi-million rand Beacon Bay to Gonubie link road are forging ahead as Buffalo City Metro is set to award the tender next month.
This follows an amount of R100-million being allocated to the project in the 2016-17 financial year.
Although there were a number of challenges and delays for the completion of the project’s first phase, BCM spokesman Sibusiso Cindi yesterday told the Daily Dispatch it had been completed in May.
He said the tender for the link road was currently being evaluated “and should be awarded in October”.
He did not respond to a question on when the project was expected to start.
In a report tabled before council recently on the current status of the link road, acting head for infrastructure services Luyanda Mbula said completion of phase 1 was delayed by various aspects including “exceptionally high rainfall during the winter months and the time it took to have the first variation order approved”.
“Phase 2 will take the dual carriage road across the Quenera River onto the Gonubie side of the river. Phase 2 will add a further 660m, the large culvert to cross the river, another circle and much more land for development,” Mbula stated in the report.
Phase 2 is set to cost the city about R80-million with the construction period expected to be about 18 months.
“The road goes from the intersection at Retail Park (Beacon Bay) past Life Beacon Bay Hospital and Triple Point and goes into Gonubie at the Mzamomhle access road and meets up with Gonubie Main Road between the police station and First Street,” Cindi said.
BCM has allocated a total of R230-million towards the project, which has been widely welcomed by businesses in Gonubie.
R100-million has been allocated for the current financial year, R40-million for the 2017-18 financial year and R90-million in the 2018-19 financial year.
The link road is part of the new township plan for the close to 2000 families from the Mzamomhle informal settlements.
The families, who have been living in squalor for more than 20 years now, are situated on farm land, but BCM is busy rezoning more than 43 hectares of land for residential, institutional and business use.
“Development proposal for most of the land along the existing Quenera Drive and extended Quenera Drive have either been implemented, approved or are presently being considered.
“The BCM for some time now has been under
tremendous pressure from developers to provide access to these developments,” Mbula said. — mamelag@dispatch.co.za
Gonubie link road set to take off as funding allocated
This follows an amount of R100-million being allocated to the project in the 2016-17 financial year.
Although there were a number of challenges and delays for the completion of the project’s first phase, BCM spokesman Sibusiso Cindi yesterday told the Daily Dispatch it had been completed in May.
He said the tender for the link road was currently being evaluated “and should be awarded in October”.
He did not respond to a question on when the project was expected to start.
In a report tabled before council recently on the current status of the link road, acting head for infrastructure services Luyanda Mbula said completion of phase 1 was delayed by various aspects including “exceptionally high rainfall during the winter months and the time it took to have the first variation order approved”.
“Phase 2 will take the dual carriage road across the Quenera River onto the Gonubie side of the river. Phase 2 will add a further 660m, the large culvert to cross the river, another circle and much more land for development,” Mbula stated in the report.
Phase 2 is set to cost the city about R80-million with the construction period expected to be about 18 months.
“The road goes from the intersection at Retail Park (Beacon Bay) past Life Beacon Bay Hospital and Triple Point and goes into Gonubie at the Mzamomhle access road and meets up with Gonubie Main Road between the police station and First Street,” Cindi said.
BCM has allocated a total of R230-million towards the project, which has been widely welcomed by businesses in Gonubie.
R100-million has been allocated for the current financial year, R40-million for the 2017-18 financial year and R90-million in the 2018-19 financial year.
The link road is part of the new township plan for the close to 2000 families from the Mzamomhle informal settlements.
The families, who have been living in squalor for more than 20 years now, are situated on farm land, but BCM is busy rezoning more than 43 hectares of land for residential, institutional and business use.
“Development proposal for most of the land along the existing Quenera Drive and extended Quenera Drive have either been implemented, approved or are presently being considered.
“The BCM for some time now has been under
tremendous pressure from developers to provide access to these developments,” Mbula said. — mamelag@dispatch.co.za
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