SoPlett! | Plettenberg Bay News and Info

THOUSANDS of low income families are to benefit from the rollout of solar energy geysers in Bitou.

DEVELOPERS and politicians in Plettenberg Bay say the Western Cape government’s slow progress in finalising approval for developments is hampering job creation.

A VEIL of secrecy has been drawn around one the hottest real estate deals in South Africa – the sale of a 4.3-hectare property along millionaires’ row on Robberg Beach in Plettenberg Bay.

BITOU Municipality will have to reprioritise a few projects to make up a R5.4-million shortfall on the desalination plant planned to augment the town’s threatened water supply.

THE Water Affairs Department and Bitou Municipality have signed a formal co-operation agreement that will see R20-million released to the drought-stricken Plettenberg Bay for the construction of its desalination plant.

DESERVING residents of Kurland Village were the beneficiaries of a recent hands-on working week visit to The Crags by 14 pupils and their team leaders from the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts.

THE Bitou Community Educational Trust was started in 2008 to establish a fund to fill the gap in educational development and training.

PLANS are afoot by a group called Cultural Bridge to develop a cultural centre in Plettenberg Bay which, if approved, could attract between 500000 and one million tourists a year.