News – Greenside Residents Association

THE 2020-2021 GRA COMMITTEE

Committee, Members, NewsBy Chair 2nd Mar 2019

2019/2020 GRA committee

UPDATE : Municipal Planning Tribunal decision (January 2022) Barry Hertzog/ Gleneagles Multi-story Development

News, Planning and complianceBy GRAadmin 26th Jan 2022

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…

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Liquor Licence application : House of Trance, October 2021

News, Planning and complianceBy Communications 13th Oct 2021

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…

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Help keep the Green Crew Alive

Community, Greening, NewsBy GRAadmin 27th Jun 2021

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…

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Greenside Gems : coffees and comfort during Covid

Community, Greenside Business, NewslettersBy GRAadmin 9th Mar 2021

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…

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GRA newsletter March 7th 2021

UncategorizedBy GRAadmin 8th Mar 2021

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…

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News from the Greening committee March 2021

Greening, NewsBy GRAadmin 8th Mar 2021

News from the Greening committee March 2021

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Polyphagous Shothole Borer

Community, Greening, NewsBy GRAadmin 10th Dec 2020

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…

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Appeal : Greenside and Emmarentia Residents Associations November 2020

Heritage and building, News, Planning and compliance, Roads and TrafficBy GRAadmin 5th Nov 2020

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…

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CPF meeting 26.10.2020- GRA, SAPS Parkview, JMPD and City of Johannesburg

News, Planning and compliance, Roads and Traffic, SecurityBy GRAadmin 3rd Nov 2020

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…

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MOWBRAY ROAD CLOSURE 2020

Greenside Business, News, Planning and compliance, Roads and TrafficBy GRAadmin 23rd Oct 2020

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…

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