Warehouses on remnant 87 Hilton Road

Update: The destruction of the warehouses starts Wednesday morning 7 and will continue for around a fortnight. Our personal thanks to Intaprop and Elphick Earthworks. This should have a seriously positive impact on crime in the area.

Update: Meeting Intaprop and Elphick Earthworks Tuesday morning to have them pulled down. Progress.

These warehouses have been an utter shame for the five years I have lived here. They have been a magnet for vandalism, a haven for crime and an utter eyesore. Designed as chicken sheds, they became warehouses for Rob Bouwer and living quarters for Phineas, who now works at Super Seedlings. When Rob died, they fell into the most terrible disrepair, and no matter what we have tried to do, we could not get them levelled as the land has never belonged to us, but we have had to live with the consequences, such as near-nightly attacks on our property. We had another two nights ago.

Now Elphick Earthworks will come in and level them at some time in the near future. This is a warning to neighbours, such as Alastair, Jeanette, Annemarie and Steff that the noise and dust will, for a period of time, be excessive.

Update: Pics added, as per Michelle Nel's request

Update: Late at night, this is where most of the local stolen Telkom cable was processed three years ago. Neglect always has a terrible price. We reported this over and again to our local structures, SAPS and Telkom and Intaprop and got absolutely nowhere for three years, and now our neighbourhood has no cables.

Amazing: A family lived here ...

... and here ...

This is one of the warehouses where criminals lived and used to attack us

This is where criminals lived and used as a base to attack us at night

This stuff stolen from poor folk around us and then thrown away; Obed, at LEAP, was among the repeat victims

This is where Linbro held many parties: also used as a base to attack us at night. Importantly, this was the main Telkom stolen cable processing facility