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INFORMAL TRADING: REVISED PLAN ACTIVATED
Traders reject plan CARINA ROUX
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revised informal trading plan for Kuils River was activated on 1 October after being approved by council in January, but it has been met with some discontent. Although a plan was adopted on 26 October 2017 the City’s Mayco member for urban management, Grant Twigg, said several “challenges were experienced with implementation which necessitated the revision of the approved informal trading plan”. Traders were not paying any monthly fees or permit fees before the recent activation, said Twigg. The Shoprite parking area in the Kuils River CBD (central business district) between Carinus Street and Nooiensfontein Road is the largest trading site locally. In September two local trader organisations, One Org and Kuils River Informal Trader Association (Kita) asked in correspondence to the subcouncil that the bays be painted before the traders are expected to start paying the monthly fee. The CBD site is labeled “category 2” with a monthly fee of R104 for a hard surface bay according to the City’s informal tariff structure. The bays at the Shoprite parking area and along Nooiensfontein Road were recently painted, but Isaac Jenecke, from One Org, says “bays have now for the third time in a row been painted incorrectly’’. He says some of the bays may even be situated in illegal spaces according to the Business Act. On a recent site visit he pointed out that there are several drain covers and a possible fire hydrant within demarcated bays. According to the revised plan bays range from 2x2m to 2.5x5m in size. “The bays are of different sizes but for the same fee,” says Jenecke. He’s been allocated one of the 12 bays leading up to the shopping centre’s entrance (bays 15 to 26) which are 3x2m in size. Jenecke says originally the agreement between the various trading organisations and city officials was that all the bays would be 3x3m in size.
Isaac Jenecke, Gert Petoors and John Jacobs from local traders organisation One Org, standing in the bays recently painted. Fellow trader Gert Petoors says for this reason many of the traders already invested money (R1700) to buy 3x3m gazebos. A woman who asked to stay anonymous, said she has been trading from the same spot for more than 20 years. Her gazebo does not fit in the bay now allocated to her, “so people are going to fight when it rains,” she says. John Jacobs who sells packaged fish portions used to stand close to the entrance of the liquor store. He says he was not informed of the new bay allocated to him beforehand
which is some distance away from his old location. Beryl Meintjies, a fruit and veg seller, says the bay allocated to her – about the size of a standard parking place – is not big enough. She must now limit her offering accordingly. Meintjies was also not impressed that another seller had occupied her previous spot which is not an actual trading bay. Jenecke says the traders certainly did not consent to the “so-called (revised) trading plan”. In response to TygerBurger’s enquiry
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about the City’s consultation with traders and the allocation of bays, Twigg said, ‘‘A draft revised informal trading plan was developed after a comprehensive public participation process and following consultation with informal traders and trader associations.” “Existing traders made applications, as per the department’s process and were allocated their existing trading locations, provided that the trading site/bay was approved at full council.” V Continued on page 2.