Ottery is bordered by Plumstead to the west, Philippi to the east and Kenilworth to the north west. The suburb can be accessed from the M5 freeway to the west of the suburb.
Mitchells Plain is a largely coloured township about 20 km from the city of Cape Town. It is one of South Africa's largest townships. It is located on the Cape Flats on the False Bay coast between Strandfontein and Khayelitsha.
Today Mitchells Plain is one of Cape Town's and South Africa's largest township with a population of about 290,000 people.
In terms of economic activity, investment is primarily in retail development with Mitchell's Plain being considered as having the strongest level of investment on the Cape Flats. It has a central business district, locally called the "Town Centre" and two large shopping centres; Promenade Shopping Centre on AZ Berma n Drive and Westgate Mall on the corner of Morgenster and Vanguard Drive. The Promenade Shopping Centre is the largest with more than 120 stores comprising major clothing, furniture, banks and restaurant chains. Informal economic activity is a significant part of the local economy. Such activity reflects a dominance of retail functions with informal trading responding to market and thus concentrated around the main public transport interchanges and along heavily utilised pedestrian routes.
