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Posted: April 28, 2021 Council stalls Wildstone Heights zoning amendment City of Cranbrook council Monday night unanimously opposed first reading of a zoning amendment for a property along Echo Field Road that if approved would pave the way for approximately 144 mobile home / single family lots and 110 mobile home park lots. Council was unanimous in support of staff recommendations to not give first reading to Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4038, 2021 – Wildstone Heights Property Corp – Echo Field Road. Ron Fraser of Engineering and Development Services, outlined in a report to council the c...

THE STANDARD HOME & AWAY Ongoing construction works at Konza. [Courtesy] The county governments of Machakos, Makueni and Kajiado have suspended the issuance of new development permits around the Konza Technopolis area. In a joint statement, the counties said the permits fall in the area falling within the ten-kilometer radius dubbed ‘Konza Planning Zone’. The suspension takes effect immediately and will last for 90 days. The decision was reached to enable a newly constituted Inter-County Joint Physical and Land Use Planning Committee to develop a plan to provide guidelines and standards...

Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT) and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) appreciate the Ramsar Convention 2021 World Wetland Day theme of “Inseperable: Water, Wetlands and Life” to mark the celebration, as it reflects the need to preserve Harare’s headwater wetlands which play a large contributory factor in the provision of water to the City and its residents. Harare is a wetland city. The geographical location of Harare on top of the watershed shows that the Manyame, Gwebi and Mazowe Rivers arise within the city. It needs its wide open grassy seasonally inundated headwater wetlands to ...