Illegal Day Care center in quiet residential area. What can I do?

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I live in a quiet neighbourhood and an unlicensed day-care centre has opened up next to me. The noise from screaming kids is intolerable. Furthermore it is a narrow 1-way street with no parking and so people dropping off kids park in the road and often block my driveway. Tried talking to them but was met with a string of abuse and of course accused of racism. I was in touch with Department of Social Welfare who say their only concern is if the kids are adequately cared for and can't/won't help with noise, traffic etc. Interaction with City of Joburg gets a brick wall. Anyone have any ideas how I can approach this?
 
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how many kids? more than 5?

If I know anything about this, not much you can do as if its less than 5 kids its technically an after care,
 
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Rizzler said:
I live in a quiet neighbourhood and an unlicensed day-care centre has opened up next to me. The noise from screaming kids is intolerable. Furthermore it is a narrow 1-way street with no parking and so people dropping off kids park in the road and often block my driveway. Tried talking to them but was met with a string of abuse and of course accused of racism. I was in touch with Department of Social Welfare who say their only concern is if the kids are adequately cared for and can't/won't help with noise, traffic etc. Interaction with City of Joburg gets a brick wall. Anyone have any ideas how I can approach this?
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This is a zoning issue. As far as I know it is illegal to run ANY business in a residential area if it impedes on traffic and parking etc. Just like it would be illegal to operate a workshop from your garage.

I had a guy two houses down that rented the house and started a car workshop. Had him out of there in less than 3 months...
 
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Cape Town classifies these as Early Childhood Development Centres. The policy may provide you some insight into what you need to look at for CoJ.

As mentioned zoning is probably the first place to start as it's pretty clear cut. It's either zoned or not.
 
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eg2505 said:
how many kids? more than 5?

If I know anything about this, not much you can do as if its less than 5 kids its technically an after care,
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There are anything between 10-20 kids all about 4-5 years old
 
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Annoying. New neighbours moved into my parents (quiet) suburb last year, and within a few weeks had painted advertising on their vibracrete for a "Saturday morning market". Told my cousin (City of Cape Town metro cop) who said we had to wait until they actually tried to run the business/impede traffic flow.

Luckily it was a complete and utter failure (seriously, did they really think it would work). The vibracrete has still got the garish paint though. Point is

Give the Metro Cops a call and lodge a complaint...
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It's part of what they are there for.
 
The_Traveller

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Did you not see that report on ENCA about a kid that died in an illegal day care ?

Report this with utmost urgency !
 
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start a death metal band check gumtree for a 60w or greater valve amp and get a guitar, distortion pedal practice at the witching hour.
 
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