SA Affordable Housing March - April 2019 // Issue: 75 | Page 23

PROJECTS
The brand new fire station.
The average household income of this area, according to a
report conducted by Urban Econ in 2014, is R8 172 a month
of which 62.9% of the people in the area have completed
grade 12. Protea Glen is also considered as one of the safest
areas in Gauteng, according to a study that included areas
such as Sandton, Johannesburg, Alexandra, Sharpeville,
Randburg and Tembisa.
SCHOOLS
Currently there are three high schools in Protea Glen. BASA
private high school consists of 1 200 learners and is
currently full and Protea Glen Secondary School that
consists of 1 600 learners. In extension 29 Prestige College,
another private school, was built in October 2017. Curro
recently opened a new private primary and high school in
Protea Glen in January 2019, which brings to three primary
schools and two private primary schools in Protea Glen.
Royal Schools are planning to build another private school
in extension 20.
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The Development of Protea Industrial
Park West will continue the current
transformation of Soweto and
surroundings from a dormitory
suburb to a business hub.
NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN PROTEA GLEN
Protea Glen extension 24 has recently been completed and
construction of the new Taucal Eskom substation started on
2 February 2019.
An additional 5 800 houses are planned by Cosmopolitan
Projects in Protea Glen Extensions 25, 36, 38, 39 and 40.
Currently marketing is underway at Extension 40 and the
construction of 463 houses is planned to start on
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