Since our incorporation 100 years ago, Garden Cities has been committed to excellence and high quality in every aspect of our work. The non-profit company is dedicated to the development of entire suburbs, the construction of houses and public buildings and the nurturing of education equality through providing school halls to redress decades of disadvantage.
Our objective through this striving for excellence is to positively influence and support high standards in the vital industry in which we work and the communities we serve. As training and development are a vital part of our commitment, we are pleased to give our support to the MBSA Small Builders Manual.
Garden Cities is the primary planning and administration arm of the group, with 100 years of experience in creating whole suburbs and their infrastructure.
Garden Cities. For the past, the present and the future
Taking the complication out of home financing Garden Cities can help qualifying homebuyers with all the important data on one platform
Garden Cities has made financing the ownership of a home less complicated for qualifying buyers.
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GARDEN CITIES PUBLISHES CENTENARY BOOK
As part of the celebration of Garden Cities’ Centenary, a 60-page collection of stories and pictures tracing the history of the company over the past 100 years, and projecting the path it will take into the future, has been published as an eBook to be viewed on this website.
The book documents the establishment of Garden Cities, its early development and our growth right up to the present. Chapters will be regularly added to the book as a living record of our progress.
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100 years of community building
The history of Garden Cities starts in June 1919 with the Senate of the Union of South Africa formally approving the grant of about 280 hectares of land.
100 school halls in 16 years
The Archway Foundation striving to provide school halls for one million disadvantaged children
Home Financing
Taking the complication our of home financing Garden Cities can help qualifying homebuyers with all the important data on one platform.
SUNNINGDALE’S DOG PARK TAKES A LEAD
Every doggy need catered for at canine leisure centre
Since Garden Cities planned, constructed and then launched Leadville Dog Park for the canine residents of Sunningdale in December 2016, daily, an estimated 120 dogs with their owners visit and enjoythe facility off Braselton on Leadville Road.
FIRST GBCSA GREEN STAR SUSTAINABLE PRECINCT CERTIFICATION IN AFRICA AWARDED TO GARDEN CITIES WEST COAST PROJECT
The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) has awarded a 4-star Green Star Sustainable Precinct certification – the first in Africa – to a project that will be built by historic Cape Town development company, Garden Cities NPC (RF), as a further phase of its flagship Cape West Coast suburb, Sunningdale.