4.4 THE EXISTING LAND-USES IN SOUTH BEACH
4.4.2 FINDINGS OF THE LAND-USE SURVEy
B. Business
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_ This category was further broken down into the categories of auto repairs, take-aways, general business services, shops, eating and catering places, light or service industry, offices and trade (large areas for displaying the sale of goods).
C. Recreational- Recreation was categorised in playgrounds for the public, restaurants and amusement centres.
terms of parks and pubs/ nightclubs/bars,
D. Educational - This was used to state the location of the schools in South Beach, which included creches, nurseries, primary or secondary schools.
E. Religious The only place of worship that exists in the case study area are churches. Thus, this was the only category used in this particular land use.
F. Health - The category that was mapped in terms of health are clinics, hospitals (Addington and Children's' Hospital), doctors' quarters, and other health and medical. services.
Other services such as police, Telkom and postal services are also included in the land use study.
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Point Road has a series of flats that are located above the retail arid commercial uses. These flats rarlge in their densities. They are medium- rise (less tharl or equal to four storeys) to high-rise (more tharl four storeys) buildings. There is a block of flats, however, that are build on ground, level arid not above retail space.
In terms of recreation, Point Road has a small playground depicted by green on Map 4. Map 4 also shows that there are two churches which are both located on the same block. There is a single detached house located on the very first site of Point Road within the case study area. A post office is also located at the end of Point Road. Therefore, it Carl be seen that the land-uses of Point Road has charlged considerably from previously as the area was predominarlt1y used for the purpose of containerization and cargo handling for Portnet. These uses have now charlged to general commercially zoned areas that are more varied as compared to being specific land-uses for the Port.
4.4.2.2 PRINCE STREET
As seen on Map 4, Prince Street has the most amount of residential activity. The one side of the street is predominarlt1y occupied by residential land-use. Apart from residences, the second most prominent larld-use on Prince Street is that of health arid its related services.
The Children's' Hospital, Addington Hospital's related services, arid doctor's quarters are all located on Prince Street. Prince Street therefore sees the clustering of medical and health larld-uses.
A police station, a single detached house arid a small cluster of shops are also located on Prince Street. The cluster of shops includes a butchery, a green grocer, and a bottle store.
4.4.2.3 ERSKINE TERRACE
Erskine Terrace, as mentioned preViously, has a great deal of health- related larld-use due to the vast area that Addington Hospital occupies.
Apart from the occupation of larld by Addington Hospital, the Children's' Hospital also occupies a large area of larld on Erskine Terrace. Please refer to Map 4 to identify the amount of space that that medical arid health occupies on Erskine Terrace. The parking space allocated for Addington's staff is also indicated on Erskine Terrace via the grey shading.
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Erskine Terrace also has a small cluster of holiday flats, timeshares qnd hotels. These places of tourist accommodation are located in close proximity to the uShaka Island and Marine Theme Park. The location of these activities could have repercussions for the holiday accommodation areas located in the South Beach case study area.
4.4.2.4 BELL STREET
Map 4 shows that Bell Street has a mixture of land uses, which includes Addington Primary School, i.e. educational land-use, a playground for the school, residential land-uses, a bar that falls on the corner of Bell Street and Point Road,
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Giles home for the handicapped on the corner of Bell and Prince Streets, and a holiday flat on the corner of Bell Street and Erskine Terrace.4.4.2.5 RUTHERFORD STREET
Rutherford Street also has mixed land-uses. It forms the edge of the case study area identified for the purpose of this Dissertation. The sites on Rutherford Street are irregular, odd-sized and shaped. Rutherford Street has many flats that are located above retail land-uses. It has a nightclub, a holiday flat, a plot from Addington Hospital, a pharmacy, an optician, and a bar.
4.4.2.6 MASONIC ROAD
It can be seen on Map 4 that Masonic Road does not lead to Erskine Terrace such as South Beach Avenue. Masonic Road is mainly residential and is a minor road in terms of land-use and scale.
4.4.2.7 HOSPITAL ROAD
This road also does not lead onto Erskine Terrace and is therefore a deterrent from Erskine Terrace. Hospital Road consists mainly of residences above commercial land-uses.
4.4.2.8 SOUTH BEACH AVENUE
South Beach Avenue runs down to Erskine Terrace and therefore allows easy access by tourists to the holiday flats on Erskine Terrace. South Beach Avenue consists predominantly of flats, and holiday flats on the comer of Erskine Terrace.
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From the findings of the land-use study, it was determined that there are clusters of related land-uses. There is a cluster of holiday flats on Erskine Terrace, clustering of trade and service-industry on Point Road, a clustering of medical and health related activity on Erskine Terrace, Prince Street and Rutherford Street, and the clustering of residences on Prince Street, Rutherford Street, and Point Road.
4.5 OBSERVATIONS NOTED OF THE EXISITING SITUATION