Plans for 2010 to be revised next week
By Tarryn Le Chat
29 October 2006
The tender for the management of Cape Town’s 2010 soccer World Cup Stadium will be advertised next week, but a spokesperson for the Green Point Common Coalition says the government is moving too fast.
The authorities were planning to start building in January for completion by July 2009, but this would be impossible unless their reasons for building the stadium in Green Point were ‘sound’.
David Polovin of the coalition said the government was working on proposed 68 000 multi-purpose African Renaissance Stadium on the assumption that there was no opposition, but this should not be taken for granted.
The provincial government is set to react to the environmental impact assessment next Tuesday and announce whether the stadium will be built on the existing stadium site, of if part of the Metropolitan Golf Course site would be used.
If the new stadium were built on the present site, the 47-metre high structure would overwhelm the main road and dwarf nearby buildings.
29 October 2006
The tender for the management of Cape Town’s 2010 soccer World Cup Stadium will be advertised next week, but a spokesperson for the Green Point Common Coalition says the government is moving too fast.
The authorities were planning to start building in January for completion by July 2009, but this would be impossible unless their reasons for building the stadium in Green Point were ‘sound’.
David Polovin of the coalition said the government was working on proposed 68 000 multi-purpose African Renaissance Stadium on the assumption that there was no opposition, but this should not be taken for granted.
The provincial government is set to react to the environmental impact assessment next Tuesday and announce whether the stadium will be built on the existing stadium site, of if part of the Metropolitan Golf Course site would be used.
If the new stadium were built on the present site, the 47-metre high structure would overwhelm the main road and dwarf nearby buildings.
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