what is the newlands Community Improvement District?

The Newlands Community Improvement District (Newlands CID) is a non-profit company that delivers supplementary services to approximately 1,700 homes inside the CID boundary.  

It is funded by 'additional rates' added to property owners' rates bills.  Every month the City pays these levies over to the Newlands CID which funds and manages community security, street cleaning, environmental upgrading and social responsibility projects.

The CID was established in July 2024, inspired by 25 years of volunteer work undertaken by the Newlands Residents Association.  With their volunteer projects increasingly under pressure, the Residents' Association was instrumental in the creating Newlands CID - a financially sustainable community organisation.  They were not alone and today there are over 55 CIDs across Cape Town.