Community Projects

Urban Landscape Solutions (ULS) has undertaken numerous community upliftment greening projects. These include:

Teaming up with WBHO Construction to install a garden at the Oasis Community Centre in Claremont.

ULS completed public parks in Witsand and Atlantis, in conjunction with the Greening Community NGO, as well as Ocean View, Scottsville, Nyanga, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha.

ULS created gardens for an Aids orphanage in Mitchells Plain together with WBHO Construction.  

ULS built a cricket pitch and planted trees at Du Noon Primary School in Milnerton.

ULS landscaped a garden for the educational reading centre at the Kyamandi Library in Stellenbosch.

To compliment these projects, Urban Landscape Solutions partners with township communities to turn frequently denuded areas into more habitable spaces.  These projects, initiated by the City of Cape Town, often involve a liaison officer, appointed by the residents, who supply the labour, with the community as a whole taking ownership of the greening project.

Some of the successes include turning a dangerous thoroughfare in Khayelitsha's Harare Precinct 3 into a vibrant community park.  For this project the community also created mosaic works and built tree cages to protect the new trees.  In the same township, a park was landscaped on the banks of the sensitive wetlands for the residents of Makhaza Park.  The community centre at the park promotes community values and educates residents on the need to preserve the important Cape Flats wetlands.