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A 19-storey block of 306 flats is planned for Jamhuri Crescent in Woodley. Residents have 30 days to tell NEMA what they think.
A company called GD Bb One Development Limited wants to build a 19-storey residential-and-commercial tower on Jamhuri Crescent in Woodley, according to a NEMA environmental impact assessment notice published in the Kenya Gazette on Friday 2 October and reported by The Kenya Times.
The site is two plots, L.R. Nos. Nairobi/Block 43/99 and 43/100. Woodley/Kenyatta Golf Course is one of Kibra's five wards, and Jamhuri Crescent runs off Ngong Road beside the Kibera side of Jamhuri Estate.
What is proposed
A basement, a ground floor, three mezzanine floors and 19 upper floors.
306 homes: 76 studios, 76 one-bedroom flats, 152 two-bedroom flats and two penthouses.
110 parking bays, a residential lobby, a gym area, a clubhouse and a children's play area.
A connection to the Nairobi Water main sewer, a borehole on site, solar power alongside the grid, and storm-water drains with oil-water separators and silt traps.
Traffic marshals and a site traffic plan during construction.
The same Gazette carried a second Nairobi notice, for a 30-storey, 697-unit tower by Stellar Bay Limited on Mpaka Road in Parklands. Between them the two projects would add 1,003 homes.
How to comment
The public has 30 days from 2 October, so until about Sunday 1 November, to send written comments on the Woodley project to the Director-General of NEMA, by post or by email, quoting the project. The notice does not say what happens to the houses currently standing on the two plots. That is a question worth putting to NEMA and to the Woodley/Kenyatta Golf Course MCA.
What it means for Kibra
Neighbours, Jamhuri Crescent tenants and residents' associations can object or ask for conditions on traffic, drainage, water and noise before the deadline.
Construction lorries would use Jamhuri Crescent and Ngong Road, which already carry traffic to Talanta Stadium works.
306 homes with 110 parking bays means more cars on a residential street. Parking and matatu access are fair questions to raise.
The studios and one-bedroom units are the kind of housing young workers in Kibra rent, but no prices have been published.
Sources: The Kenya Times (NEMA notice of 2 October, project details). KNN has not yet seen the Gazette notice itself and will update this story with the comment address once confirmed.
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A company called GD Bb One Development Limited wants to build a 19-storey residential-and-commercial tower on Jamhuri Crescent in Woodley, according to a NEMA environmental impact assessment notice published in the Kenya Gazette on Friday 2 October and reported by The Kenya Times.
The site is two plots, L.R. Nos. Nairobi/Block 43/99 and 43/100. Woodley/Kenyatta Golf Course is one of Kibra’s five wards, and Jamhuri Crescent runs off Ngong Road beside the Kibera side of Jamhuri Estate.
What is proposed
A basement, a ground floor, three mezzanine floors and 19 upper floors.
306 homes: 76 studios, 76 one-bedroom flats, 152 two-bedroom flats and two penthouses.
110 parking bays, a residential lobby, a gym area, a clubhouse and a children’s play area.
A connection to the Nairobi Water main sewer, a borehole on site, solar power alongside the grid, and storm-water drains with oil-water separators and silt traps.
Traffic marshals and a site traffic plan during construction.
The same Gazette carried a second Nairobi notice, for a 30-storey, 697-unit tower by Stellar Bay Limited on Mpaka Road in Parklands. Between them the two projects would add 1,003 homes.
How to comment
The public has 30 days from 2 October, so until about Sunday 1 November, to send written comments on the Woodley project to the Director-General of NEMA, by post or by email, quoting the project. The notice does not say what happens to the houses currently standing on the two plots. That is a question worth putting to NEMA and to the Woodley/Kenyatta Golf Course MCA.
What it means for Kibra
Neighbours, Jamhuri Crescent tenants and residents’ associations can object or ask for conditions on traffic, drainage, water and noise before the deadline.
Construction lorries would use Jamhuri Crescent and Ngong Road, which already carry traffic to Talanta Stadium works.
306 homes with 110 parking bays means more cars on a residential street. Parking and matatu access are fair questions to raise.
The studios and one-bedroom units are the kind of housing young workers in Kibra rent, but no prices have been published.
Sources: The Kenya Times (NEMA notice of 2 October, project details). KNN has not yet seen the Gazette notice itself and will update this story with the comment address once confirmed.
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