Cape Winelands Airport still on course despite appeals

Building of the long-planned Cape Winelands Airport is predicted to start in 2026, as soon as the statutory appeals course of towards its environmental authorisation is concluded, the airport’s managing director, Deon Cloete, revealed.

Cloete stated the appeals course of is more likely to be finalised by March 2026, after which building on the R8-billion improvement can start.

Airport set for March 2026 groundbreaking

“Of the 1 500 registered and affected events, we had six appeals. There’s a course of to work by these, and hopefully, within the new 12 months we might be able to begin our course of.” Cloete stated, as per EWN.

He defined that the appeals have been submitted by a small variety of stakeholders and neighbouring land customers, including that ongoing engagements are targeted on land-use alignment in addition to integration with surrounding developments.

“We’ve been working with these neighbours on consolidating land use and integrating our improvement. We’re making good progress and we will count on the bulletins in that regard within the close to future.” Cloete additionally added.

A second main airport for the Western Cape

The Cape Winelands Airport additionally just lately reached a key milestone with the appointment of WBHO because the official building accomplice.

Cloete stated that WBHO’s appointment marks the beginning of a vital section. With the contractor on board, the crew can refine timelines, remaining prices, and the engineering work wanted to ship Cape City’s second airport.

The corporate is one in all South Africa’s most skilled infrastructure builders, answerable for main dams, malls, stadiums, highways, in addition to aviation amenities.

WBHO director Russell Adams stated the agency is honoured to hitch the challenge, calling it a uncommon and thrilling greenfield improvement that may showcase the depth of South African engineering expertise.