EDITOR – It is a pity that your reporter did not contact me as the present owner and seller of 80 and 84 Clark road, as there is more to the story than has been printed.
As a responsible company who have been at this address since 1990, we wanted to improve and uplift the neighborhood by developing the two properties into grade A upmarket and high class offices and continue to use them when complete.
We engaged the services of an architect and submitted to council for approval what would have been a fantastic improvement to the road. All this at great cost I might mention. In the end we were forced to move as this approval was never gained and some years later we now have to sell the two properties as they are no longer suitable. The house next to us, 88 Clark Road is abandoned and full of vagrants which contributed to our decision.
The bottom line here is that if Town Planning had seen the bigger picture we would have been prepared to spend millions of Rands developing the two properties and issues faced now would not have happened.
Ryan Flanagan
Durban
