MALMESBURY AVIATION ESTATE (MAE)
Proposed Development in Brief
Proposed is an Aviation Estate outside Malmesbury for leisure flying enthusiasts. The Estate consists of 371 Erven each with its own hangar, plus additional hangars for hire. This will service at least 371 aero planes, helicopters, gyrocopters, etc. Associated will be a 2.1 km runway, helicopter pads and landing sites, fuel storage facilities, filling stations, control towers and other buildings, as well as large swathes of grassed areas. The area in question is large and it is proposed to be built on the farm Nassau alongside the R302 south of Malmesbury on the way to Klipheuwel, approximately 7kms from Malmesbury, 4km from Abbotsdale, 6km from Tierfontein and Kalbaskraal and 5km from the Paardeberg mountain range.
THIS DEVELOPMENT IS OF VERY GREAT CONCERN
There are direct implications of the proposed aircraft estate not only for neighbours of the proposed estate, such as nearby farms, the Paardeberg mountains, but also for all of those in Malmesbury, Abbotsdale, Tierfonteinon, Chatsworth, Kalbaskraal and Riverlands. It also affects areas further into the region which are within easy distance of a flying jaunt, like Riebeeksrivier, the Riebeek Valley and Wellington. The developers are talking about 120 movements ( 120 airplanes, gyrocopters, helicopters and microlites) perhaps more per day, especially over weekends. This would mean that there would be a plane up in the air every 5 minutes, every Saturday and every Sunday from sunrise to sunset. On days when they would host a special event, this number could be higher, the developers said at the Malmesbury Library public meeting (Sep. 4th - 2008) and again at the Westbank Hall public meeting in 2009. These numbers are also confirmed by the Scoping Report prepared by CLES
DEA&DP Reference: E12/2/3/2-F5/14-0462/08
Proposed Development of the Malmesbury Aviation Estate (MAE)
Cape Lowlands Environmental Services (CLES) received notification from DEA&DP on 21 February 2011 that the Scoping Report and Plan of Study for Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIA) for the proposed Malmesbury Aviation Estate development and associated infrastructure on a portion of portion 4 of Doornfontein 814 and the remainder of Doornkraal 830, Malmesbury has been accepted. The Plan of Study was approved upon certain environmental conditions being met which relate primarily to Specialist Environmental Studies. On the planning side issues of concern are the implications of the residential component.
DEADP's response to the Final Scoping Report
