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SEA POINT: NEW INFORMAL TRADING PLAN DRAFTED
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Age-old regulations governing informal trade on Main and Regent roads are on their way out. A new draft trading plan has been tabled by the Good Hope Subcouncil, and will follow a commenting process before being finalised. The plan currently used to allocate trading spaces is outdated and causing multiple problems, says ward councillor Beverley Schafer. “Numerous complaints are continuously received about the location, densities and layout of the informal traders’ area along Main Road and Regent Road in Sea Point,” she says. The plan was introduced in 2000, but the neighbourhood has since changed dramatically with the introduction of the Sea Point City Improvement District (CID) and more recently the MyCiTi bus route. “Sea Point Main Road in 2000 had deteriorated into an unacceptable area and a hive of prostitution and drug dealing. With the advent of the Sea Point CID, it has been transformed into a clean, safe area where business is thriving. It is necessary therefore that a new and updated trading plan be investigated and implemented,” she says. “The densities and layout of trading bays presently allowed in terms of the 2000 proclamation are in some instances now out of keeping with the conditions in the precinct and require updating.” Last year the Sea Point CID requested that the process of establishing a trading plan for Main and Regent roads be initiated and that it deal with the implementation of uniform and aesthetically appealing trading stands, the restriction of trading times and guidelines for the type of goods or services to be sold, says CID chairperson Heather Tager. These are all being considered for the updated trading plan. Trader Arvin Lala has been selling fresh produce in Sea Point for 25 years and has been hard hit by recent building work and the introduction of the MyCiTi bus route. He is being moved to a new stand to accommodate a bus stop and hopes he will receive a new shelter. “I’m currently not making money due to the construction taking place around me.
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BOOMING BUSINESS: A draft trading plan has appeared before the Good Hope Subcouncil to replace the outdated one governing informal trading on Sea Point’s Main and Regent roads. PHOTO: NICOLE MCCAIN Even though I have to move because of the new bus stop, I think it will bring me more customers,” he says. Lala would like the trading plan to consider a structure that protects his fruit and vegetables from the elements. “My biggest challenge is the rain, wind and sun. The food goes off. It’s hard to work without shelter
and we can’t even put umbrellas up.” Fellow trader Jimale Mohamed says pedestrians often complain that he is blocking the pavement, even though his stall is well within the allocated boundary block. “People often complain, but I’m in the yellow line. I’d like to get a bigger space or see the pavement widened, like in the CBD,” he
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says. Pedestrian flow is sometimes congested by illegal traders, as well as a few stands that have been placed in an area too narrow for easy pedestrian flow, Tager says. In addition, a stand at the entrance of a shopping complex or bank constitutes a security risk, she adds.
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