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A reminder to all Greensiders to pay their 2023 annual subscription to the GRA. Membership fees have been kept very low – it is just over R1.36 a day per household to belong. So please join and help us help Greenside. The membership fee for 2023 is R500 per household (or R550 if you would like your own personal…
On Thursday 9 March the Greenside Residents Association (GRA) hosted its Annual General Meeting at Greenside High School. The AGM is an opportunity for the GRA to engage with the community and residents, share updates on issues that the GRA is dealing with and unveil the major projects that the GRA will be focusing on…
2023 Cruden Bay Block Project presentationDownload
At the 2023 AGM, Colin Berger of the GRA Heritage committee presented a very useful overview of the Heritage aspects of the suburb and the value of protecting and preserving heritage aspects of our suburb. The slide show covered examples of sensitive renovations that both respect the heritage of the suburb and add value to…
The Greenside Residents Association expresses our grateful thanks to the following organisations, businesses and individuals who contributed to the success of the GRA Annual General Meeting on March 9th 2023: Azhar Cassim of the Sunny Shell , 237 Barry Hertzog Ave) who donated Debonairs pizzas and Vida Caffe cappucinos Jack’s Bagels Greenside (14 Gleneagles Rd…
Please find attached a copy of the summary of the results and comments generated by an online petition, signed by 470 residents of Greenside in August 2022, regarding the negative impacts on the suburb of illegal business activities and violations of liquor licences and land-use/ building control laws by some venues operating on Gleneagles Rd…
Please fill in this form if City Power have dug up your pavement / any street section to do work, and it has not been repaired. This form is open until 8am Tuesday 28th Feb 2023. Thank you – https://forms.gle/UbXJTu7iQeX3FT3f9
In response to a petition submitted in 2021, JRA and COJ have made the following commitment in an email on 12.07.2022: “Petition P114/05/22 was investigated by JRA Traffic Engineering and the attached report has recommendation on approved traffic calming measures for Muirfield Road and Braeside Road. The report is on the list of petitions warranted…
Join us for Green Day 2022 on 17 September We are excited to invite you to the second edition of Green Day! Join us for a fun family day out in the park on 17 September 2022 from 10:00 – 14:00.Green Day will be taking place at Sir Lionel Philips Park, Cruden Bay Rd, Greenside…
This is a plea to those property owners in Greenside who are doing renovations or building work on their properties to be considerate of your neighbours. Let them know that you are doing building work, let CAP know that you are having builders on site (this is an excellent proactive security measure) and PLEASE be…
A reminder to all Greensiders to pay their 2022 annual subscription to the GRA. Membership fees have been kept very low – it is just over R1.20 a day per household to belong. So please join and help us help Greenside. The membership fee for 2022 remains at R450 per household (or R500 if you…
The Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) of the City of Johannesburg has released its decision on the application on Erven 1098-1104 Emmarentia Ext 1.The Emmarentia Residents’ Association (ERA) and the Greenside Residents’ Association (GRA), along with many other interested parties and an unprecedented 2 479 residents objected to this development application back in November 2015. The…
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY TUESDAY evening 19th October – details below The GRA remains very concerned about the proliferation of venues that clearly, illegally and problematically operate as clubs/ bars and party venues while using restaurant liquor licences.The GRA will be objecting (as per our policy) to the application for a restaurant liquor licence…
Do you love seeing our suburb looking so clean and green? It’s all thanks to the hard work of the Green Crew, who clean, weed, clear illegal dumping and cut the grass and overgrown bushes around the suburb. The team is made up of William Matsheke, Tobias Moyo and Themba Matema who work every Friday…
written by Andrew Brouard A coffee shop is not just a coffee shop. It is a refuge from the world’s hurly burly. A place to pause, put brackets around your moment and sip your drink while the mad world briefly recedes.For some people, it’s also about the coffee.Whether purist or refugee, Greenside meets the needs…
Please click the link to read the full newsletter :https://mailchi.mp/3d067033ebe0/gra-newsletter-march-2021 In this edition of the GRA newsletter :Update on GRA activitiesMembership fees due for 2021Continuation of Municipal Planning Tribunal regarding multi-story development (Gleneagles/Barry Hertzog) 12.03.2021Greening UpdateHeritage committee – important information about building plansSecurity News and invite to save the date for Online Greenside Security meeting…
Our tree canopy is under threat, and Greenside trees, like those in our neighbouring suburbs are already infested with PSHB. The GRA has undertaken to spread awareness of the extent of this problem, to share important information and to work with all other stakeholders to start finding solutions to this crisis. As a start we…
Working together to protect our suburbs Dear Greenside and Emmarentia residents and business owners We are once more under siege! In 2014/2015, you, in your numbers (2479 of you in total), vehemently objected to the proposed multi-story development on Gleneagles/ Barry Hertzog. This development, in its current form, will extremely negatively affect the residential and…
The Greenside Residents Association would like to thank SAPS Parkview, JMPD and the City of Johannesburg land use management department for meeting with us on Monday 26 October. We had a very useful discussion regarding the many law enforcement issues that have long plagued the Greenside business node. These included security issues, dangerous driving, problems…
The closure of Mowbray Road was approved by the City of Johannesburg in 2016. This was a decision supported by the then Greenside Business Association and the Residents Association as a way to manage illegal parking, traffic congestion, problems with car guards and noise disturbances consequent to the ongoing poorly managed illegal land-uses in the…
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY 6pm on TUESDAY 20th October 2020 (details below) An application has been made for the Residential 1 zoning of erf 225 Greenside (49 Greenfield Rd) to be amended and title deed restrictions to be removed to allow for the development of a ground floor restaurant with 3 dwelling units above…
Once again, we are overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of our Greenside Community. With your help, and led by Bianca Albertini, the GRA were able to fill hungry tummies on Mandela day. (A special thank you to Natasha for the donation of delicious chicken akhni.) We have delivered: Chicken stew, chicken akhni, butternut soup,…
🏡Hello Greenside Residents🏡 LEVEL 4 gives us a little more retail freedom, so let’s use it to support businesses in our suburb. For fresh-made meals, healthcare, basic necessities and more, look below and be good to Greenside. 🙏Thank you🙏
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY 8pm on TUESDAY 17th March 2020 (details below) An application has been made for the Business 1 zoning of erf 211 Greenside (120 Greenway) to be amended to allow for the development of a full petrol station, with additional retail, operating 24 hours, 7 days a week, on the corner…
Greenside’s first ever community “Green Day” will be held on Saturday, February 22
Pirates Half Marathon scheduled to take place on the 16th February 2020.
Some of you may have seen social media reports of a disturbance on Greenway on Friday night 24th January 2020, caused by a large group of people fighting in middle of the street. SAPS and JMPD were called and we have been told arrests were made. This is part of a larger, ongoing pattern of…
In order to support the work of the GRA we ask all Greenside households to contribute an eft of the annual fee for 2020 of R450 (reduced rates for pensioners of R225) This helps us keep going and fund our various projects including community building and clean up programmes, our communication and information sharing channels,…
Greenside clean-up news August 2019
written by Catherine Nixon Owen, together with his older brother Alfred, moved to Jhb from Harare about 6 six years ago now. They set up an informal trade in Greenside and were eventually fortunate enough to secure a permanent spot at Village Green Shopping Centre, where management appreciated that Owen needed an area that wasn’t…
GRA volunteers will be signing up new members and distributing GRA 2019/2020 multi-event passes this Saturday morning, 27th July between 9am and 1pm at the Village Green shopping centre, outside Woolworths. Each household will be given a pass, but paid up GRA members can receive additional passes. If you are not yet a GRA member…
Catherine Nixon : communication@gra.org.za Greenside Pharmacy is a community pharmacy that still has the personal touch of the traditional pharmacy of yesteryear. It was established in 1965, and Head Pharmacist Bilal Takolia took over the practice in 2008. They have five staff members and a locum pharmacist. Bilal is a familiar and welcome face to…
Cool ideas fun run 2019 information for residents
2019 702 Walk the talk information for residents
JUFA (Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance ) will be doing a PSHB walkabout with Emmarentia and Greenside Residents Associations this Saturday, 8th June 2019 at 11am. We’ll meet at the Botanical Gardens, Emmarentia Dam – meeting point: the parking lot -Thomas Bowler St entrance near the rose garden. An invitation is extended to all concerned Greenside…
💦Please use this link supplied by the ward councillor to log any remaining issues regarding the water pipe replacement project in Greenside 💦 💦 Use this snag list for any outstanding issues including meter leaks & incomplete installations, pavement & driveway reinstatement’s etc. 💦 https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeOfpmOx_DTFb4oGK…/viewform
The slide show regarding Joburg Roads Agency plans for Greenside can be downloaded here via Google Drive. Please be aware this is a large file Minutes of the meeting held with City of Johannesburg regards these plans on November 27 2019 can be downloaded here
Our 2019 AGM was a great success. Thank you to the many Greenside residents who took the time, on a stormy April evening, to attend the AGM. We had a very succesful meeting attended by over 140 people and we were thrilled to see a full hall of concerned, engaged community members. Attendees were greeted…
Greenside Animal Hospital is one of the oldest private veterinary practices in South Africa
Security companies have noticed a new modus operandi referred to as scouting. Scouts work in shopping centres and survey the space for potential victims with apparent theft value. Scouts will pass information about the victim (what they’re wearing, the car they drive, etc.) to accomplices who follow the victim when they leave the shopping centre…
I had the pleasure of visiting a gem of Greenside today, The Majestic.
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The reconstituted Greenside Residents’ Association (GRA) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, 2 April.
We are lucky to live in a beautiful leafy suburb, with a vibrant diverse community. There are always challenges to living in an older suburb and a complex growing city. In order to keep our suburb healthy and green and sustainable and a happy place to call our home, residents need to be active citizens…
The suburb of Greenside was developed on land that originally made up one of many large farms in Johannesburg, namely the Braamfontein Farm. In 1886, the farm land was bought by Lourens Geldenhuys for its mining rights. Fortunately for us more contemporary Greenside residents, the area was not viable mining land, and it remained as…
Members of the Greenside Resident’s Association are planning to launch a groundswell security initiative in the form of a block-watch community, pioneered by concerned citizens. The initiative is called Emmarentia Greenside Community Patroller (EGCP) and aims to organise volunteers across these two neighbouring areas, and concentrate vigilance and mobilise them to respond to security incidents.…