How Land-Use Management Affects You as Property Developer The municipalities in South Africa have the responsibility to oversee the land-use management in their areas of jurisdiction. In the simplest form, land-use management is a system that provides for a framework...
Urban Planning Terminology Explained Town or urban-planning terminology can be confusing. It may even feel as if the municipality is trying its best to obscure the meaning of terms, but the truth is that the information is readily available. We want you to make...
Words Often Used by Town-Planning Consultants If you want to open a guesthouse or convert your current residential home into a backpacker’s, you will need the help of town-planning consultants to apply for the necessary zoning amendments and licenses. Town-planning...
The local authorities of cities and towns in South Africa are responsible for the management of land-use rights in their areas of control. To this end, they implement zoning schemes, which provide the rules and regulations for the permitted use and development of...
Site planning is essential for the approval of building plans that are related to the construction of, for instance, a fuel station or perhaps a shopping mall on a particular piece of property. The site plan is the graphical representation of the current and proposed...
Transportation planning as a discipline is closely related to land-use management and planning. Though it stands on its own, it has now also become part of urban and land-use planning. Transportation cannot exist as an isolated concept and can only function in...
