Proposed Amendments to the City’s Municipal Planning By-law: Comments for ECD Centres

The City of Cape Town has released 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝘆-𝗹𝗮𝘄 which include provisions around development and land use applicable to ECD centres.

As you are aware, an ECD centre must have the necessary land use approval in place to comply with municipal by-laws and become registered as a partial care facility. The land use approval process is overly complicated, long and costly.

The Centre for Early Childhood Development has been working the City of Cape Town and the Mayor’s office around local barriers to ECD centre registration and accessing the ECD subsidy. Through this the City of Cape Town has included provisions around development and land use applicable to ECD centres in these draft amendments.

The proposed amendments can be found here: https://shorturl.at/vddk7

The memorandum explaining the amendments can be found here: https://shorturl.at/vTiTn

There is 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, and this is our opportunity to have our voices heard! We removed admin penalties for struggling ECD centres; let’s do it for land use approvals. 

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: Midnight on Friday 25 October 2024

You can submit your comments directly to the City of Cape Town here: https://shorturl.at/xYi1l, but to make things easier CECD has put together our comments (which you can read here: https://shorturl.at/Sy0XO) - which you can simply share by submitting the message on this petition. You can also personalise your comments in the text box, by simply editing the text. Your message will then be sent on to the Land Use Department at the City of Cape Town.

By adding your voice, we can positively impact the lives of tens of thousands of young children in the City of Cape Town! We can do this! Let’s remove the unnecessary ECD centre registration barriers until the system supports our young children and the ECD sector!