Registered interested and affected parties have until 16 November 2026 to comment on the amended Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) for the approved expansion of Cape Winelands Airport at Fisantekraal, near Durbanville in the Western Cape. The consultation, run by environmental assessment practitioner PHS Consulting, opened on 15 October.
Environmental authorisation for the expansion was granted on 27 October 2025. An appeal process followed, and on 21 May 2026 the Minister set aside all appeals and varied the authorisation by adding two conditions, E9 and E50, which require registered parties to be given the opportunity to comment on certain post-authorisation documents.
Nine of the EMPr’s annexures are new documents: a Wildlife Hazard Management Plan, an Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, Urban Design Guidelines, a Groundwater Monitoring and Management Plan, a Noise Mitigation and Management Plan, a Dust Management Plan, a Water Scarcity, Conservation and Water Demand Management Plan, a Service Infrastructure Management Plan and an Overall Lighting Report. The remaining annexures were made available during the environmental impact assessment and have already been approved by the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (DEA&DP).
The full updated EMPr and its annexures are available on the PHS Consulting website, https://phsconsulting.co.za/cwa-post-authorisation-documents/ with a hard copy at Fisantekraal Public Library.
