Spatial Development Framework (SDF) plays a pivotal role in interpreting the long-term visions and plans of the municipality to ensure orderly development of the City. However, there are cases when the land development proposals are in conflict with the ruling SDF provisions. As a practicing town planner, how do you professionally handle the competing interests […]
Is it even possible for a property to have two different zonings? It is rare, but it is possible. There is very limited information about dual zoning in South Africa. Dual zoning was permitted in terms of the old planning regimes and relatively few properties still have dual zoning to this day. An example of […]
As a registered property practioner and a town planner, I have noted several instances where prospective buyers purchase a property without full knowledge of what they can do and/or cannot do on the property. In most cases, purchasing a property without conducting due-diligence results in unintended consequences that may be costly and time-consuming for the […]
Having completed my BSc Hons in Rural and Urban Planning in 2013, it was a difficult experience to find planning opportunities. I volunteered at Chegutu Municipality between 2013 and 2014. Between 2014 and 2015, I gained practical experience in property development and management at one of the leading real estate organisations, in Harare. Damascus moment: […]
Planning strives to create order and manage different competing interests (environment, social, economic, and political). In South Africa, planning contributes to the protection, promotion and partial fulfilment of the bill of rights enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) i.e. environment, property, housing, health care, food, water, and social security amongst […]