Rand Steam Laundries

RAND STEAM LAUNDRIES April 2019 marks the completion of the reconstruction of the historic buildings demolished in 2008 without permission and in contravention of the Provisional Declaration of the site by the Provincial Heritage Resources Authority - Gauteng. In the absence of official sanction or prosecution, it fell to the residentsÕ associations and the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust (now the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation), to hold the site frozen for nearly ten years while agreement proceeded with the previous owners to rezone the property subject to the reconstruction of the buildings along Napier Road.