OPEN LETTER TO SUNNINGHILL ESTATE AGENTS

Sunninghill Community over the years has tried to encourage the Estate Agents operating in our suburb to work with us. Work with us in uplifting the suburb, the suburb from which they make their living. With some of the agents we have been partially successful; however, the vast majority of you it seems are not interested. Estate Agents are becoming, we are sad to say, part of the problem and not part of the solution in the upliftment of our suburb.

 LITTER BINS – Agents are using these as a way to advertise in the area and not as a solution to reducing the litter in the suburb. A prime example of this is the number of litter bins at the K60 / Nanyuki road intersection. Here we have no fewer than 12 bins, all within a few metres of each other and most in areas where there is no pedestrian traffic. This intersection is of course one of the best areas for advertising due to the volume of traffic travelling through here. Great place to advertise, but worthless area for bins, resulting in this intersection looking terrible with the bins becoming visual litter in our suburb. There are a number of areas where we could do with litter bins, such as the formal and informal taxi ranks in Sunninghill, why not place bins here, if you really do want to reduce litter. Sunninghill Community have mapped out areas in the suburb where it is acceptable to place bins and we encourage Estate Agents with bins in the area to contact our office manager, Bernadette Will to discuss where your bins would best serve the purpose of reducing litter. Her number is (011) 234-3888. We ask you then to ensure your bins are moved to these areas. We will give you all until he 30th of March, a week to contact our office to come to an agreement as to where you should move your bins to. Once done, we will give you the opportunity to contact the authorities you signed up with for advertising to move the bins. We will of course communicate with our members in Sunninghill as to the progress being made. Thereafter, those who do not work with us in keeping our area free of litter and advertising signs, will be named and shamed.

ESTATE AGENT POINTER BOARDS ON A SUNDAY – It is with great dismay that we notice Agents have reverted back to their old way of erecting numerous pointer boards at intersections in Sunninghill, causing our area to look shocking over weekends. There is absolutely no need for you to have more than ONE pointer board at an intersection. The intersection of Tana and Nanyuki yesterday was a nightmare!!! We will be monitoring the situation next weekend and photos of culprits will be published via email and on our websites.

We urge you all to please work with the Ratepayers Association in our fight to keep our suburb of a certain standard. We would far rather work with you than have to name and shame you.

Linda Gildenhuys Sunninghill Community – security@suncomm.co.za 083-440-2381