Gladysvale Toilet and Secure Storage area permit application

This application proposes the building of ablution block at the Gladysvale site to promote improved sanitation and allow palaeontological work to be conducted in a hygienic and ecologically friendly manner.

Gladysvale is well documented in the literature and its importance, history, key issues etc. are well documented in several SAHRA Management Reports, so these aspects of the site will not be repeated in this particular application.

To conduct the scientific work recently permitted by SAHRA, it is necessary to create both a Covid safe environment and a hygienic environment at the cave site. In addition, the site is already part of low scale tourism and without proper ablution facilities onsite, this continued visitation has the potential of damaging the environment and creating a health hazard due to human defecation and urination in this environment.