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protect and enhance the mobility of Maraisburg, Newclare and Paarlshoop Roads (classified as “mo-bility roads”).

Promotion of the optimal use of the existing rail commuter infrastructure: promote mixed uses to cater for a variety of eco-nomic activities, e.g. convenience retail, etc. ensure transit oriented development; promote public transport; apply density and movement strategies;

promote user-friendly stations with improved secu-rity, lighting, landscaping and public conveniences create pedestrian-friendly environments; promote public transport.

Revitalisation of declining areas of Langlaagte and Paarlshoop support nodal development at the intersection of Du Toit and Deville Streets; ensure neighbourhood supporting uses (e.g. su-

permarkets, florists, fast food outlets, hairdress-ers, medical consulting rooms, etc.)

apply nodal strategy; intensify land uses along Du Toit and Marais Streets between Main Reef Road and Deville Street ensure neighbourhood supporting uses; apply movement, nodal and density strategies.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Weaknesses and Threats Railway lines constrain movement; divide the study

area into two poorly connected precincts and sepa-rate it from neighbouring suburbs to the North.

Predominance of industrial and institutional uses which both require large properties and contribute to the creation of pedestrian-unfriendly environments.

Underdeveloped main road network within a broader area reduces the permeability of the area and con-tributes to traffic congestion.

Sub-standard road geometry of major routes through the study area also constrains free and safe flow of traffic.

Community/social facilities, such as a clinic, library or primary school, lack within the study area.

The nearest more substantial shopping and enter-tainment facilities are all located too far from the study area.

Car related businesses (such as scrap yards, truck ser-vices, garages and panel beaters), mixed with the residential and institutional components of Paarl-shoop, give the area a peri-urban character and re-duce the area’s residential amenity.

Parts of the study area are overcrowded and impover-ished, particularly structures that have been con-verted into ‘rent-a-room’ facilities for poorer seg-ments of the population.

There are visible signs of decay throughout the area (vacant sites with piles of rubbish, decayed and even abandoned buildings).

A possibility that, once the area is upgraded, a process of gentrification may take place is a threat. As that would mean that segments of the current community would be pushed out of the area and fail to benefit from the area’s upliftment.

Strengths and Opportunities The railway station and the planned strategic public

transport route along Main Reef Road can trigger and support transit oriented development (densification, land use mix, pedestrianism, etc.).

The study area is conveniently located on a major movement route from Soweto to CBD and approxi-mately on the same distance from each of these two important destinations.

Large portions of vacant land are publicly owned (ei-ther by the municipality or government) and there-fore readily available for desired development, par-ticularly housing.

There are a number of special places (tree lined streets, Church Square, as well as historically, archi-tecturally or contextually interesting buildings) within the study area and these can be used as image build-ers to create a distinct sense of place.

Issues The existing railway station and the planned SPTN route along Main Reef Road are seen as an opportunity for bringing more people to the area. These people will live conveniently within a walking distance from public transport facilities (and therefore be more mobile) and, at the same time, they will increase the viability of public transport. However, these people will need –

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