THE South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) is appealing the decision to develop Clairwood Racecourse into a logistics hub and will host a community meeting to highlight its concerns.
“Residents of South Durban have called SDCEA and reported that trees are being felled, buildings were demolished and noise activities were taking place on the Clairwood Racecourse site. SDCEA visited the site and indeed much activity was taking place, even when an official decision about the future of the property had not yet been granted. Now a decision has come through, and SDCEA has appealed that positive authorisation,” said SDCEA in a press release.
“This development in the South Durban community involving transport and freight in an already polluted petrochemical and toxic industrial complex is misguided at a time when so many other basic needs are already unmet,” they said.
A mass community meeting has been planned for Sunday, 28 June at 2pm at MTSS Hall (28 Burdwan Road, Merebank).
