V&A Waterfront: Major Granger Bay expansion planned

V&A Waterfront: Major Granger Bay expansion planned

A major new development is planned for Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, with plans to expand the Granger Bay precinct through land reclamation, new coastal infrastructure and mixed-use development.   According to a Draft Scoping Report released as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, the project would see approximately 3.2 hectares of land reclaimed from Table Bay to create new public spaces, coastal protection structures and co…

R20bn Granger Bay expansion: Public invited to weigh in

The planned R20bn expansion of the V&A Waterfront into Granger Bay represents one of the most ambitious coastal urban development projects currently proposed in South Africa, with its central engineering component — large-scale marine reclamation from Table Bay — now thick in the middle of the regulatory and consultation phase. Source: Wikimedia Commons At the centre of the proposal is a plan to reclaim between 3.2 and 3.8ha of land from the oc…