{"id":52269,"date":"2023-05-29T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/nuwe-regulasies-oor-vervalle-huise-20230524-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:13:15","slug":"nuwe-regulasies-oor-vervalle-huise-20230524-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/nuwe-regulasies-oor-vervalle-huise-20230524-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuwe regulasies oor vervalle huise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nuwe wetgewing gaan dalk pro\u00adbleem\u00adhuise in Weskusdorpe takel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Probleemhuis in \u2019n straat is nie net vir inwoners \u2019n seer oog wat die eiendomswaarde van die hele buurt laat daal nie, dit lok ook rondlopers en dwelmhandelaars wat naderhand \u2019n openbare oorlas word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n <i>Weslander<\/i> het al verskeie klagtes van lesers ontvang oor \u2019n paar haglike huise in die Saldanhabaai-munisipaliteit (SBM) se gebied. Huise waaroor gereeld gekla word en optredes deur SBM se wetstoepassingsbeamptes en die Weskus-polisie noop, is onder meer Librastraat 37 in Vredenburg, en die le\u00eb huis op die hoek van Raven- en Seesterstraat in Saldanha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Februarie 2022 is oor Lochnerstraat 22 en twee onbewoonde huise in Tierkloofstraat en Nassaustraat berig (\u201cHaglike huis van polisie pla\u201d, 10 Februarie 2022, <i>Weslander<\/i>), met inwoners wat keelvol was vir di\u00e9 probleemeiendomme in hul midde. Die huise is intussen skoongemaak en van hulle word bewaak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit gaan nie net oor die maatskaplike probleme wat daarmee saamgaan nie,\u201d het Darrelle Scheepers, eienaar van Remax-eiendomsagentskap op Saldanha en Vredenburg, ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cS\u00f3 \u2019n probleemeiendom bemoeilik die verkoop van \u2019n aangrensende huis aansienlik. Mense sal nog verder af in die straat koop, maar wil nie reg langs s\u00f3 \u2019n huis bly nie. Dit laat die waarde van al die eiendomme in s\u00f3 \u2019n buurt val,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die burgemeester, Andr\u00e9 Truter, het jare lank gesukkel om kommunikasie te bewerkstellig tussen SBM en die departement van openbare werke, aan wie die meeste van die probleemeiendomme in die gebied behoort. Hy stem saam dat probleemgeboue die eiendomswaardes laat val en beklemtoon dat dit bydra tot \u2019n negatiewe impak op die plaaslike ekonomie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoewel dit nie sy verpligting is nie en die geboue se instandhouding die provinsiale en nasionale regering se verantwoordelikheid is, het hy tog ter wille van die inwoners in SBM volgehou en uiteindelik die departement so ver gekry om van die probleemgeboue skoon te maak en sekuriteitswagte aan te stel om die persele 24-uur te bewaak. Een van hulle is die huis in Ravenstraat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tereza Burger, kommunikasiebeampte van SBM, het bevestig dat sy wetstoepassingsafdeling opgetree het oor klagtes by die betrokke huise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie hooffokus was om die openbare oorlas wat deur die rondlopers geskep is, aan te pak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het benadruk dat die wetstoepassingsafdeling voorheen geen munisipale verordeninge met betrekking op probleempersele gehad het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie Raad het egter onlangs nuutgepromulgeerde munisipale verordeninge spesifiek met betrekking tot probleemgeboue aanvaar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingevolge die Verordening Insake Probleempersele 2022, sluit \u2019n probleemeiendom onooglike of aanstootlike geboue wat deur die eienaar verlaat is, wat oorbewoon of onwettig bewoon word, wat gesondheidsgevare vir mense inhou, en waar vullis of afvalstowwe opgehoop, gestort, geberg of agtergelaat is, in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ook geboue waaroor klagtes van die publiek ontvang is oor misdadige aktiwiteite, wat deels voltooi of struktureel swak is, en waarvoor daar nie belasting of diensteheffings betaal word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vervolgens het Burger ges\u00ea is die wetstoepassingsafdeling tans besig om \u2019n opname te doen om al die problematiese geboue in die munisipale gebied te identifiseer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNadat hierdie proses gefinaliseer is, sal stappe teen die eienaars van sulke eiendomme geneem word ingevolge die betrokke munisipale verordening,\u201d aldus Burger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het voorts ges\u00ea dat die munisipaliteit die inligting oor die betrokke probleemeiendomme beskikbaar sal kan stel sodra die opname voltooi is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n <span>.<\/span> Is daar \u2019n probleemeiendom in j\u00f3\u00fa buurt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laat weet ons gerus by 082 576 0453 of stuur e-pos na nuus@weslander.co.za.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuwe wetgewing gaan dalk pro\u00adbleem\u00adhuise in Weskusdorpe 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