Our Save Our City Heritage Committee online petition reads as follows: As a concerned citizen of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, I am cognisant of the fact that the National Heritage Resources Act of 1999 recognises that every generation has a moral responsibility to act as trustee of our national heritage for succeeding generations and that the state has a legal obligation to manage heritage resources in the interests of all South Africans. ... Read More

It is hoped that the recent walk-about by more than 500 people of the shameful environmental eye-sores created by Irish slumlord Denton will result in those running the local authority to stir their stumps and stop this obscene rape of our heritage. I would urge those concerned about our built past to see the extent of the damage by visiting the area which boasted irreplaceable architectural gems of immense historical value ... Read More

Local Port Elizabeth Community web site, MyPE, has placed two 'Then and Now' images up in their gallery of the Peacock Restaurant and Victoria Street. The contrast between 2002 and 2009 of two buildings owned by local property developer, Ken Denton, is marked. In the description of the Peacock Restaurant Then and Now images MyPE says: The old Peacock Restaurant on the corner of Wasley and Victoria Street, Central, Port Elizabeth is one ... Read More

With the slow demise of the buildings around the Peacock restaurant in Victoria Street, Central the restaurant's clientele felt unsafe patronising this cosmopolitan eatery and it closed. Not one building on the block that the old Peacock Restaurant is situated in, is occupied today more than 7 years later. ... Read More