We are pleased to introduce Graham Barratt, who has taken over the MDGA ExCom’s Standards portfolio.
Among other responsibilities, his new role includes:
· Working with ExCom’s Architecture Committee (Archcom) and our Standards inspector, Robbie Johnston, to ensures that all new buildings and building alterations conform to the MDGA’s building design regulations and constitution
· Assisting the Standards inspector in noting and taking remedial action where transgressions occur, and in encouraging residents to maintain their properties to an acceptable standard
· Working with residents and endeavouring to resolve any disputes.
Graham is certainly well qualified to take on the Standards portfolio. He has been involved with over 300 building projects of all sizes during his career and is a past member of the Rondebosch Ratepayers’ Association ExCom. A quantity surveyor by profession, he runs his practice, Barratt & Boyes Quantity Surveyors, from home. He is a born Capetonian, raised in the southern suburbs and educated at Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory and High Schools and at the University of Cape Town.
Graham and his wife, Cheryl, have lived in the Marina for the last 16 years and enjoy the area’s relatively safe and laid-back life style. They have three children and five grand-children, all resident in the southern suburbs.
He looks forward to engaging with residents, and will be encouraging property maintenance as a way to improve the environment while also maintaining and raising property prices to the benefit of all residents.
