Pinelands (Cape Town)

(From Wikipedia )
Pinelands is a garden city suburb located on the edge of the southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The suburb is primarily residential and is often praised for its peacefulness and abundance of trees. Pinelands is one of the few "dry areas" left in Cape Town (the sale of alcohol is prohibited in the suburb).

Pinelands is a popular place for senior citizens to retire to and there are several retirement homes in the suburb, although younger people are increasingly moving in. It is one of the most racially-mixed middle-class suburbs in Cape Town.

The main road is Forest Drive and the suburb contains two small shopping centres named Howard Centre (named after Ebenezer Howard who led the garden city movement) and Central Square. The first thatched house built in Pinelands is in Mead Way near Central Square dating from the 1920s. This was declared a national monument in 1983. New thatched roof houses have not been permitted due to the fire hazard for many years.

Pinelands is served by two railway stations: Pinelands Station on the western edge of the suburb and Mutual Station on the northern edge. The suburb is bisected from the north east to the south west by the Elsieskraal River, which has flowed through a large concrete drainage canal since the 1960s. The postcodes for Pinelands are 7405 for street addresses and 7430 for PO Boxes