Trailer adverts make life difficult for Future City Fourways
Hans Jootse is at his wits end with illegal trailer adverts.
Hans Jooste is the managing director of a non-profit organisation called Future City Fourways. His team works tirelessly every week to maintain public spaces and keep them clean. They are dedicated to ensuring that the community has access to well-maintained public areas.
Jooste is currently dealing with the significant issue of illegal advertising that seems to have no end, causing immense frustration to him and residents. He said the current trend of advertising trailers that are parked on the islands in the middle of the road in Fourways is getting out of hand.
“We recently had a request to clean up the corner of Witkoppen Road and Montecasino Boulevard. We found this dilapidated trailer that had been there for months, so we contacted the JMPD and they came and removed it to allow us to have access to the island in the middle of the road so that we could do our job. We did a lot of work and even planted some plants and it came out nicely which residents appreciated.”
It didn’t take long for a brand new trailer to be put up.
“That has upset a lot of us because it means all the work that we have done has been in vain. I contacted the JMPD and they came to remove it. But then people in our group chat online started complaining about how these trailers are scattered all over Witkoppen Road and Winnie Mandela Drive. It goes from the N1 and down to Steyn City. They are all illegal, there is no permission, and they have to apply to the council to erect them.
He said residents are impacted by these trailers and have become a problem because not only do they make their clean-up sprees difficult but also cause visual pollution.
“These trailers are used by vagrants and criminals to hide behind or sleep in harassing everybody and everything close to them. The rubbish produced and using them as ablution facilities also creates huge health and safety problems.”
Jooste appeals to businesses to apply for permits so that they can be guided on where and how to advertise their businesses in the area.
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