Green retrofit of Low Income Housing

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Allandale View in Kaalfontein, Midrand, affordable housing development helping home owners save on electricity Allandale View in Kaalfontein, Midrand, affordable housing development helping home owners save on electricity

Allandale View is the second such development in the Kaalfontein financed by Nedbank Corporate Property Finance and further demonstrates the bank’s commitment to the affordable housing market.

Recently launched development Allandale View in Kaalfontein, Midrand, is set to benefit end-users not only from an affordability perspective, but also from a reduction in electricity usage.

“Each house will be fitted with an SABS approved 100L, high pressure theremosiphon solar geyser which comes with a 10-year warranty,” says Rocco De Kock, Director of Valumax Midrand (Pty) Ltd, developers of Allandale View. “As a result, home owners benefit from an immediate saving in electricity and a reduction in their carbon footprint, contributing to a cleaner and safer environment,” adds De Kock.

With over five hundred contracts signed since launch, the Allandale View development demonstrates the need for quality affordable housing. Allandale View is the second such development in the Kaalfontein financed by Nedbank Corporate Property Finance and further demonstrates the bank’s commitment to the affordable housing market.

Manie Annandale, Head of Affordable Housing in Nedbank Corporate Property Finance, says that the bank partners with credible developers to deliver quality homes and Valumax is one such developer. “Not only has our relationship with Valumax grown on this basis, but their philosophy on sustainability is closely aligned to that of the bank evidenced in the societal and green benefits of this project,” he says.

Kaalfontein forms part of the greater Midrand area on the northern periphery of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan area and is close to Grand Central airport.  Surrounding townships are Tembisa, Ivory Park, Glen Austen, Clayville, Birch Acres, President Park and Jukskei.

In terms of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Regional Spatial Development Framework (RSDF), Kaalfontein is part of an area known as ‘Greater Ivory Park’ and stands to benefit from the ‘Upgrading of Marginalised Areas Programmes’. This programme aims to provide viable and efficient socio-economic and engineering infrastructure within the marginalised, but formal townships of the City.

During the past two years, Valumax established an excellent working relationship with the local community and through the development of Allandale View was able to create employment opportunities during the construction of the civil and electrical infrastructure.


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