Overview
Identifiers
Descriptions
Historically, the location and the development of the Green Point Common from an open coastal plain, used as pasturage, to informal sporting and/or recreation activities in the late 18th century to the present Green Point Urban Park, contributes to the site being one of the most important established public open space locales in the City of Cape Town.
Currently the Green Point Urban Park is a designed landscape, intentionally created by man. The design of the Urban Park responded to various environmental and heritage requirements particularly its visual spatial relationship to the Table Mountain World Heritage Site.
For more than 100 years the Green Point Common has been dedicated to recreation and sporting activities. It was the home ground of some of the oldest sporting clubs in Cape Town. Existing intrinsic historical features relating to this early sporting history have been retained within the design of the Green Point Urban Park.
The Green Point Common has elements of an associative cultural landscape and is strongly associated with the movement towards nonracially segregated sports. In 1951 the Track was allocated to the ‘‘Coloured’’ community by the City of Cape Town in compliance with apartheid-period ideology of separate racial facilities. Prior to this, however, non-racial sport had always been present on the Green Point Common and the proud traditions and memories of the heydays is a strong motive for the re-emergence of active sporting events and sporting heroes.
Over the years, the Green Point Common has always been a public open space and a place of congregation for various purposes, ranging from military mustering points and parades, a Prisoner of War camp during the Anglo-Boer War, cultural events and protest marches. Most importantly, as a public spatial landmark, it has organically evolved, and is intrinsically linked to the cultural landscape and adjacent urban scape.
Record Administration
Location
Location
- City of Cape Town
Green Point Common
Green Point
City of Cape Town
8051
South Africa
Management
Administration of Protections
The purpose of the CMP is to describe and clarify the significance of the Green Point Common with reference to specific resources and heritage sites within the precinct and to endorse existing policies and guidelines that inform current and future use of the Common to ensure that this significance is retained and enhanced for future generations. It aims to define the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders. The role of the CMP is to provide certainty of the opportunities and constraints of the formal protection under S27 of the National Heritage Resources Act (NHRA) and to simplify the process for heritage permissions which would, in general, be required for work (as described in Section 3.1) to be undertaken on/in a Provincial Heritage Site (PHS). The CMP will cut unnecessary administrative burden and duplication through the application of the exemptions provided for through Section 48(3) of the NHRA:
- Any interventions/plans/proposals within the area protected by Section 27 of the NHRA which are not provided for for in the CMP will have to apply to HWC for approval; and Proposals need to be consistent/compliant with the conditions of the Environmental Authorization (EA), as referred to in the 2010 and amended 2015 EA and land-use conditions.
- All buildings graded as non-conservation-worthy on the City of Cape Town’s inventory, within the Green Point Common, be exempted from the need to obtain a permit in terms of S27 of the NHRA, provided that in the case a building is demolished, and a new building proposed, such building shall not exceed the footprint or envelope of the demolished building without the prior consent of HWC being obtained.
- Interventions/plans/proposals are to be informed and guided by the Heritage Principles and Guidelines in this document (3.6 and 3.7) providing predictability and certainty as to the types of interventions that will be permissible in this PHS.
Gradings
Grading
Historically, the location and the development of the Green Point Common from an open coastal plain, used as pasturage, to informal sporting and/or recreation activities in the late 18th century to the present Green Point Urban Park, contributes to the site being one of the most important established public open space locales in the City of Cape Town.
Currently the Green Point Urban Park is a designed landscape, intentionally created by man. The design of the Urban Park responded to various environmental and heritage requirements particularly its visual spatial relationship to the Table Mountain World Heritage Site.
For more than 100 years the Green Point Common has been dedicated to recreation and sporting activities. It was the home ground of some of the oldest sporting clubs in Cape Town. Existing intrinsic historical features relating to this early sporting history have been retained within the design of the Green Point Urban Park.
The Green Point Common has elements of an associative cultural landscape and is strongly associated with the movement towards nonracially segregated sports. In 1951 the Track was allocated to the ‘‘Coloured’’ community by the City of Cape Town in compliance with apartheid-period ideology of separate racial facilities. Prior to this, however, non-racial sport had always been present on the Green Point Common and the proud traditions and memories of the heydays is a strong motive for the re-emergence of active sporting events and sporting heroes.
Over the years, the Green Point Common has always been a public open space and a place of congregation for various purposes, ranging from military mustering points and parades, a Prisoner of War camp during the Anglo-Boer War, cultural events and protest marches. Most importantly, as a public spatial landmark, it has organically evolved, and is intrinsically linked to the cultural landscape and adjacent urban scape.
Declarations
Declaration
Green Point Common, Remainder Erf 1056 in Cape Town, as depicted in Annexure A.
Historically, the location and the development of the Green Point Common from an open coastal plain, used as pasturage, to informal sporting and/or recreation activities in the late 18th century to the present Green Point Urban Park, contributes to the site being one of the most important established public open space locales in the City of Cape Town.
Currently the Green Point Urban Park is a designed landscape, intentionally created by man. The design of the Urban Park responded to various environmental and heritage requirements particularly its visual spatial relationship to the Table Mountain World Heritage Site.
For more than 100 years the Green Point Common has been dedicated to recreation and sporting activities. It was the home ground of some of the oldest sporting clubs in Cape Town. Existing intrinsic historical features relating to this early sporting history have been retained within the design of the Green Point Urban Park.
The Green Point Common has elements of an associative cultural landscape and is strongly associated with the movement towards nonracially segregated sports. In 1951 the Track was allocated to the ‘‘Coloured’’ community by the City of Cape Town in compliance with apartheid-period ideology of separate racial facilities. Prior to this, however, non-racial sport had always been present on the Green Point Common and the proud traditions and memories of the heydays is a strong motive for the re-emergence of active sporting events and sporting heroes.
Over the years, the Green Point Common has always been a public open space and a place of congregation for various purposes, ranging from military mustering points and parades, a Prisoner of War camp during the Anglo-Boer War, cultural events and protest marches. Most importantly, as a public spatial landmark, it has organically evolved, and is intrinsically linked to the cultural landscape and adjacent urban scape.
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