The municipal official informed the delegation that the owner of the land (Mr Van Rooyen) gave permission to the municipality before 1994 to accommodate about 30 families. The settlement had since grown and it was accommodating more than 300 families. The Deputy Mayor had given an undertaking that the land was going to be released and that houses would be provided to the community. The delegation recommended that the Housing Development Agency (HDA) should be brought in to assist with the negotiations and subsequently the release of that land.