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Independent consulting heritage practitioner & Town Planner, based in Cape Town.

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Cindy Postlethwayt is a graduate of UCT, a qualified Town and Regional Planner and APHP accredited Professional Heritage Practitioner. She has 34 years experience, with a specialist focus since 2007 in heritage work. She worked as a Town Planner at the City of Cape Town for 13 years, 11 of which were in a management capacity, covering the fields of development management; spatial and transport planning, strategic planning and the Olympics. Her last position was Director: Spatial and Transportation Planning at the South Peninsula Municipality

 

She has been an independent consultant since 2001, with a broad range of applications. Her client list has included local, provincial and national governments, para-statals, community based organisations and private sector investors. She was Chairperson of the Heritage Western Cape Impact Assessment Committee (IACom) Dec 2014 to Nov 2016; and was a Committee member of the same 2013 – 2014.

 

She is currently the Director of Environment and Urban Management of the Lower Kenilworth Improvement District.

 

She is on the Supplier Databases of the City of Cape Town; Western Cape Government; and National Treasury.

 

Her work is underpinned by the principles established by the APHP Code of Conduct and on the basis that the role of a heritage practitioner in managing the relevant applications is to provide an independent and objective assessment of the proposal and to adhere to the principles contained within the heritage legislation.