Woodstock facelift

Woodstock will be booming over the next few years with several City of Cape Town property developments in the pipeline.

The City has social housing developments planned for Salt River and Woodstock at six different locations, while the new District Six Community Health Centre is expected to be completed in April 2017.

Councillor Brett Herron, Mayoral Committee Member: Transport and Urban Development Authority, said about 3000 units will be built.

The new health centre is intended to replace and improve two of Cape Town’s oldest public clinics: The Robbie Nurock Community Day Centre as well as the Woodstock Community Health Centre, GroundUp reported.

Byron la Hoe, a spokesperson for the Provincial Department of Public Works, which currently owns the site, said the City of Cape Town has applied for these two sites to be used for social housing.

Herron said: “The exact number of housing opportunities to be provided at each site will be known once the planning processes have been concluded, save to say that the current estimate is 3000."

He said residents will be able to apply for these opportunities once construction has commenced within the next 18 months.