Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3318CD351
    Site Name
    The Mead Open Space and Meadway Road Reserve, Pinelands
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Archaeology Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Site Recording Admin Comments
    The Pinelands Garden City originated with Richard Stuttaford, who actively promoted this new concept. The town planner and architect Albert J. Thompson drew up the plans in 1919. In 1923 the original section known as the Meadway was laid out and built on
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    Yes
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.941691, 18.497382
      Western Cape
      • City of Cape Town
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 137; 138
      Meadway
      Pinelands
      Cape Town
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This is one of the oldest garden cities in South Africa

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      (d) The Mead and Meadway: The open space known as The Mead, as well as the road reserve called Meadway as from the Forest Drive entrance up to the boundary lines of Erven 117 and 138, with inclusion of the circle road around the Mead, situated on the remaining estent of Erven 137 and 138 in the Municipality of Pinelands, Division of the Cape.
      Deed of Transfer 24082/1978, dated 27 September 1978.
      Historical and architectural interest
      The Pinelands garden City originated with Richard Stuttaford, who actively promoted this new concept. The town planner and architect, Albert J Thompson drew up the plans in 1919. In 1923 the original section known as the Meadway was laid out and built on State land that previously formed part of the Uitvlugt Forest Reserve. This is one of the oldest so-called garden city in South Africa, 10/2/978

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      8458
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2528
      Archive Status
      National monument
      8458-2528a.pdf (23.02 KB)
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