By Staff Reporter
VICTORIA Falls Exchange (VFEX) listed property concern, WestProp Holdings says the bulk of its projects are backed by relevant paperwork.
The entity is currently undertaking multi-million dollar upmarket projects which have created thousands of jobs and heavily contributed to the fiscus.
Lately, baseless reports tilted towards drawing the property firm in disrepute have been rampant prompting the WestProp CEO, Ken Sharpe to clarify the company’s position.
Specifically, he said the Pokugara project is well above board in a move which silences in the ongoing controversy.
“This development is on board as all paperwork is approved from all offices concerned. As the developers, we did due diligence, and the plan is not even on wetlands, hence this is coming as a surprise that our development is affecting wetlands. The Harare City Council needs to be open to the Parliament and factual,” Sharpe stated.
Apart from the recent claims, WestProp’s Projects have always integrated the environment with development.
Last year , the company set aside a vast tract of land for an orchard project as part of efforts to infuse sustainable development into their work.The company planted fruit trees that include indigenous species like matamba, matohwe and exotic trees such as orange, apple, mango, peach, lemon, guava and many others.
The tree planting exercise dovetails into the national tree planting programme that seeks to green the environment and provide a sustainable future underpinned by mechanisms that cope with climate change.
Besides the fruit trees the company planted palm and indigenous trees such as Musasa, mutondo and acacia.
Mr Sharpe had this to say: “We are doing another first in Zimbabwe. I do not know of any developer who has sacrificed space for two buildings to give space for trees”.
In yet another gesture proving the commitment to environmental preservation, last year WestProp Holdings Limited set aside US$1 million towards the Wetland Walk project on a piece of land which was controversially usurped and handed over to another developer by Harare City Council officials.
The project was set to be constructed in between WestProp’s lifestyle developments of Pokugara and Millennium Heights where a ‘near dead wetland’ exists in Borrowdale West which is set to be restored and beautified into a nature park thus allowing it to naturally regenerate and in turn bring people and nature together.
