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ESTATE NEWS

BVHOA Portfolio Highlights

INFRASTRUCTRURE – Physical systems that are crucial to a

signature gated community.

• Roads, street lights, electrical transformers, boxes/cabinets, ROADS
household water, sewerage, and storm water The CoT has indicated that due to budget constraints, the
• Waste removal and recycling repairs of potholes and renewing of road markings cannot be
• BVHOA assets undertaken at this stage. The BVHOA is currently addressing
• Common areas the critical requirements where possible.
• Service provider management
INTERNAL RIVER CONTAMINATION
Service Delivery Sewerage spills entering the estate mainly from the southern
side require treatment from both the City of Johannesburg
CITY OF TSHWANE (COT) (CoJ) and the City of Tshwane (CoT). These interventions
Responsible for the following infrastructure are retrospective and the BVHOA is currently considering
management. a proactive approach to ensure that spills have the least
detrimental effect on the estate. In this regard, a continuous
STREET LIGHTS treatment will be implemented on the estate through
biodegradable and biologically active based products to
It is the responsibility of the CoT to
maintain the street lights, however maintain the internal streams.
due to the lack of service provision UNDERGROUND WATER
(budget constraints), the BVHOA
has, as an interim arrangement, been The drilling of boreholes is not permitted on the estate.
maintaining them. The possibility of reducing the underground water levels by
drilling boreholes is currently being investigated with the
CoT, and will require following a geotechnical process.
The lack of external street lights in
Rooihuiskraal Road, as well as the non- ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS AND BOXES/
functional street lights in Rietspruit Road, has been CABINETS
escalated on an ongoing basis to the CoT.
The environmental, health and safety risks caused by oil leaks
and unsafe access to electrical wiring needs to be addressed
urgently by CoT. The BVHOA has escalated these matters to
the highest level within CoT.

AESTHETICS – Look and feel of a signature gated

community through building and landscaping standards.

GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING HOUSES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
MAINTENANCE The BVHOA has embarked on an initiative to
Servest Landscaping, as the appointed service address those houses under construction where no
provider, is responsible for maintaining the common construction activities have taken place for a period
garden areas within the estate, as well as the of more than three months. The objective is to enter
perimeter grass external to the estate. into discussions with the homeowners to get these
houses completed in line with the Management and
Residents are responsible for the maintenance of the Code of Conduct Rules.
gardens within their respective properties, as well as
the landscaping and gardens on the road servitudes. Houses actively under construction will be monitored
in terms of the Management and Code of Conduct
Servest Turf is responsible for the maintenance of Rules.
the golf course and areas owned by the developer
(Mitrajaya).

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