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One metro, three coastlines and three different approval systems
City Bowl heritage streets, Atlantic Seaboard glass-box villas and sectional-title apartments, and the Southern and Northern Suburbs' family belts — the same free-measure process, adjusted for whichever part of the metro your address is in.
Salt air on three sides, one wind that funnels harder in some places than others
Every property within a few kilometres of the Atlantic or False Bay coastline sits in direct sea-spray exposure — the metro's dominant hardware fact, and the reason powder-coated aluminium and stainless fixings are the default on any exterior product here rather than an upsell. The Cape Doctor, the summer south-easter that gives the city its defining wind, is funnelled harder by Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles on the Atlantic side than it is on the more sheltered pockets of the False Bay rim — an exterior product's wind rating depends on which side of the mountain the address actually faces, not on being "coastal" in general.
How we specify for Cape Town Metro & the Peninsula
Tenure changes the approval question more than geography does here. Sectional-title apartment blocks dominate the Atlantic Seaboard promenade and much of the City Bowl fringe — any exterior product visible from outside a unit typically needs body-corporate consent before installation, standard practice citywide rather than a Peninsula quirk, but the dominant tenure type on this stretch so it shapes almost every enquiry. Freehold heritage suburbs across the City Bowl and Southern Suburbs carry municipal heritage overlays instead — a different process, same principle of checking before ordering. Further out in the Northern and Southern Suburbs' newer estate pockets, private architectural committees run their own sign-off. We confirm which of the three applies to your address at the free measure, not after the order's placed.
Three different approval processes sit inside one metro — sectional title, municipal heritage, and private estate committee — and which one applies depends on the street, not the suburb name alone.
On-site measure, Cape Town Metro- Powder-coated aluminium and stainless fixings on anything within salt-spray reach
- Wind rating set by which side of Table Mountain the address faces, not "coastal" as one answer
- Body-corporate, municipal heritage or estate committee sign-off confirmed before quoting exterior products
- External venetians for the metro's frameless glass-box villas facing hard west or north
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