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THE
FRANSCHHOEK VALLEY
MONTH
May 2010
If it’s NOT in here, it’s NOT out there!
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“By-line” to be changed to “” Not happy with the address details and it doesn’t include the new shop – any ideas? We can’t make itPRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER too busy so perhaps it should just sat “Franschhoek” and “Camps Bay” with the website and telephone number somewhere along the bottom?
Two Rivers Comes Together Staff Reporter
As you drive the road to Franschhoek, past Solms-Delta and the Groot Drakenstein Games Club, you see a small entrance and a dirt track with a humble sign that reads simply ‘Two Rivers Farm’. This understated entrance begins a story that could unfold into the most desirable Golf Club in the Western Cape.
velopment Planning to build a ‘golf trail’ comprising 18 holes across the farms. This means that all but one will remain under ‘agricultural’ zoning and the design suggests six of the farms will have golf holes registered as servitudes on a consent use basis. Therefore, just one of the farms needs to be
mately 14 kilometres of trails situated within the boundaries of Two Rivers for horse riding, walking and cycling for exclusive use of the collective owners. The trail meanders through the Farm traversing a varied environment of river crossings, wetlands, forests and open plains and is also being registered as a servitude.
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The Two Rivers Golf Club will be a private club made up of a small membership of select individuals and will run independently of the farm and equestrian operations at Two Rivers. “Fifteen of the golf holes will be built out of
“The Two Rivers Farm comprises 478 hectares of some of the best farm land in the Dwars River Valley, running between the Wemmers and Berg rivers that give it its name.”
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pure sand, presenting an opportunity for the creation of a golfing masterpiece under the design expertise of Kyle Phillips” said developer Iain Banner, “and my partners and I are excited about making a positive contribution to the sensitive development of the Franschhoek Valley.” Further, the Two Rivers Farms Owners Association has been established to govern the affairs of the Farm including the application of the Architectural Design Manual. So as to retain the agricultural feel of the Farm, an agricultural service will be offered to the owners at Two Rivers whereby agricultural resources will be pooled and managed on a ‘cost plus’ basis. Two Rivers’ international standard practice range and putting green
The Two Rivers Farm comprises 478 hectares of some of the best farm land in the Dwars River Valley, running between the Wemmers and Berg rivers that give it its name. Originally owned by Anglo American, the area comprises fifteen separate farms, formerly known as Rhodes Fruit Farm, and was acquired by the Two Rivers Development Company between 2003 and 2006. To build a golf course? Not exactly. The farms are now for sale (seven have been sold with one further sale in progress) but with a caveat: in February 2009, the Two Rivers Devco received approval from the Western Cape Minister for the Environment and De-
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rezoned to ‘resort’ and the Herbert Baker-designed cottage known as Weltevreden stands here. With approval received from the relevant authorities, its tasteful and sympathetic upgrade and modification to ‘Clubhouse’ is now complete and serves as a backdrop to the international standard practice range and putting green in front. Plans to build 25 cottages adjacent to the Clubhouse for the use of members and their resident guests, in addition to six guest suites that will be built as part of the Clubhouse werf, awaits rezoning approval from Province and is expected by mid-2010. Potential owners, therefore, can undertake conventional (or, as recommended, equestrian) farming but, in addition, will have approxi-
The Herbert Baker-designed clubhouse
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