Question NW3216 to the Minister of Health

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14 October 2015 - NW3216

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Waters, Mr M to ask the Minister of Health

(1)With reference to his reply to question 2600 on 5 August 2015, can he (a) provide a copy of the signed agreement with the service providers about relocating the hospital and (b) indicate where in the Final Environmental Impact Assessment Report Gaut: 002/13-14/E0153 of the said development does it state that the developers will relocate the Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital; (2) whether any public consultation was undertaken to inform the residents nearby the new site for the specified hospital that the hospital is to be built near them; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) (a) what is the erf number for the new site of the Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital and (b) who is the current owner of the specified property?

Reply:

  1. (a) The sale of Portion 87, 148, 149 was sold by the Department of Local Government and Housing. The Land Availability Agreement that was signed between the Department and Local Government requires that the Department signs a relocation agreement for the Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital. This agreement between the Developer and the department of Health is not yet finalised.

(b) The agreement to relocate would not have been captured in the Final Environmental Impact Assessment report. As per the Land Availability Agreement, the sale was for the whole of Portion 87, 148,149 for the development of residential houses which necessitated the relocation of the hospital to make way for the proposed residential development.

2. There has not been any consultation with the residents nearby the new site as yet. The Department has not finalised the relocation agreement with the developer and all necessary consultations will be done as part of the stakeholders’ engagement on the project which has not commenced as yet.

(3) The proposed relocation site is government owned. It is part of the Edenvale hospital site portion 87 Rietfoitein No 61-IR.

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