Afrodite - New Development

An Oasis in the Desert

Realizing a Concept

The Afrodite Beach Development is the brain child of prominent Walvis Bay based business man, Savva. He describes it as a youthful dream that is finally come to fruition. "When I was a young man I used to visit the beach often. It was on one of those breezy summer days that the idea of a luxury development started to take shape in my dreams. Today I see a dream of my youth coming to fruition." The Afrodite Beach development derives its name from the Greek Goddess of love, beauty and fertility also known as Venus in Roman mythology. Set on the un-spoilt prime beachfront 10km north of Walvis Bay, this luxury development aims to create a secure and peaceful residential estate, blending harmoniously with the natural desert environment. Afrodite Beach will consist of various sized modern housing units, villas, a luxury hotel with executive suites, hotel apartments, conference and wedding facilities, a health spa, self-catering units, time-share units and commercial facilities. The emphasis of the development is capturing the spirit of rest and nature, yet equipped with all the amenities in any modern city.

Boost to economy

Built to the tune of more than N$1,2 billion Afrodite Beach development is a huge investment in the Africa. Once completed it will create more than 500 direct jobs to the local market, while bringing a healthy boost to the rapidly developing Walvis Bay economy. The construction phase utilized the skills and labor of hundreds of builders and craftsmen, in creating the vision Savva has always cherished. A team of the most respected professionals such as engineers, architects, landscaping specialists, surveyors, town planners, infrastructure contractors and environmentalists were engaged to breathe life into the Afrodite development.

Approximately 2,000 palm trees will be planted in and around the development as part of the oasis in the desert theme. The development is also the first to utilize a storm water draining system in the region. Apart from providing fresh drinking water to each property, the developer will also provide semi-purified water to each property on the development to encourage vegetation and plant life. Considering the fragile environment of the Namib Desert and its abundance of unique plant, marine and bird life, a thorough environment impact assessment found the development to be environment friendly.

New Approach to Property Development

The Afrodite Beach development is based on the idea of a secure and comfortable community. Prospective buyers will be able to buy erven/property from the developer or the developer's selected estate agents. Prospective buyers may select an architect of their choice. A condition of buying property in Afrodite beach is that such buyers will adhere to the architectural guidelines and conditions imposed by the developer within Afrodite Beach. This creative approach allows buyers to develop their houses or units to their taste and comfort within the limits of the developer's guidelines. This will also ensure that the basic look of the buildings blend harmoniously.

The architectural guidelines and conditions of Afrodite Beach is aimed at encouraging individual creativity while fostering a unity and synchrony of materials, finishes and décor. In this way the overall development harmonizes with its natural surroundings to create a balanced lifestyle for all residents and to allow for a variety of individual architectural designs.

The architectural guidelines and conditions also allows for a fairly broad range of personal choice in the external design of the buidlings, but that the overall character of the estate will be identifiable by the use of certain unifying external elements such as the colour and finish of external walls, roof coverings. The nature of the landscaping will also contribute to this objective of achieving an interesting range of mutually compatible building designs that are aesthetically pleasing.

Some of the conditions applied in the Afrodite Beach include strictly, no subdivision, no consolidation and no rezoning of single erven, building height restrictions, colour schemes, concealed gutters and plumbing pipes and strict environmental care.

Architectural Committee

The developer shall appoint an Architectural Committee that shall be responsible for the evaluation of all architectural designs prior to submission thereof to the Municipality of Walvis Bay. The Architectural Committee shall operate with delegated authority on behalf of the developer to ensure that the provisions of the architectural Guidelines and Conditions are complied with.

Services

The meticulous attention to detail and high standards during the design and construction phase are only matched by the far-reaching vision in presenting a first class property investment opportunity.

Everything has been done to create an environment that competes with the best in the world. Similarly services, amenities and facilities have been designed to provide comfort and luxury. These services include the following:

• Single entrance
• Roads and pavements in the Development shall be interlocked
• Eighteen meter two way drive lined with palm trees in the middle
• Walk-ways and jogging lanes to the beach
• Aesthetically friendly boundary wall on the side of B2 Highway to prevent unauthorized/wrongful entry in the Development by vehicles, quad bikes, and thereby providing additional security to the development
• Approximately 2000 palm trees to be planted in and around the development
• Telephone line connections to each property
• Drinking water connection to each property
• Electricity and Substations reticulations
• Sewerage services
• Storm water services throughout the development
• Connection to each property with semi-purified water to encourage vegetation and plant life
• Every property is connected to electricity
• Provision for security surveillance cameras to be installed in the future
• All General Residential & business erven are provided with a high voltage electrical cable connection and telephone lines.

The services are intended to reduce expenditure for the purchaser/owner and thus avoid damages to the roads and pavement.

Facilities

Some of the luxury and convenient facilities include:

• Conference facilities
• Dining & Entertainment
• Commercial mall
• Wireless Internet Access
• Surveillance cameras to ensure a safe environment
• Luxury hotel

Maps

A satellite view of the coastline between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. The bright green strip marks the location of Afrodite Beach.

• Walvis Bay to Afrodite Beach 10km
• Afrodite Beach to Swakopmund 20km