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ADD NAME/TITLE HERE. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE WORKSHOP Urban Sprawl & Human Settlement Delivery 15 August 2014. Structure of Presentation. Planning Law & the Human Settlements Programme Natl – Local Legislation Planning Frameworks Settlement Sprawl: What’s the Problem & Who’s responsible?
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ADD NAME/TITLE HERE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE WORKSHOP Urban Sprawl & Human Settlement Delivery 15 August 2014
Structure of Presentation • Planning Law & the Human Settlements Programme • Natl – Local Legislation • Planning Frameworks • Settlement Sprawl: What’s the Problem & Who’s responsible? • One Competence – Many Homes!! • BNG: Enhanced role for Local Govt • Plethora of “conditional” Human Settlement Grants • Current Conjuncture
Planning Law & H/Settlement Delivery (1) • National Planning Law & Frameworks
Planning Law & H/Settlement Delivery (2) • Provincial Planning Ordinances • specific conditions and provisions concerning the creation, amendment and updating of town planning schemes. • potential conflicts national pieces of legislation • Municipal By-laws • Municipalities req’d to be developmental, to structure and manage their planning processes to give priority to basic needs. • Unlike Provincial Ordinances, municipal by-laws that conflict with national or provincial legislation would be considered invalid.
Who is responsible for Managing Sprawl? 3 Aspects considered: • Disjuncture in Planning Legislation. • Concurrent Planning & Housing functions across 3 spheres of government. • Targeted funding for human settlements: How ‘conditional’ are the conditional Human Settlement Grants?
Why we need new legislation Land Use Management Legislation • Constitutional legislative competences are not clear –recent CoJ/Gauteng litigation • Inappropriateness of current system • SA city of 2009 is very different from SA city of 1986 • Inefficiency of current system • Apartheid duplication • Wide provincial differences • DFA/Ordinance overlaps • Planning/environmental overlaps
BNG: Enhanced Role for Local Government • Greater role for municipalities in housing delivery. • Housing cannot be separated from land use, town planning, infrastructure provision. • Housing planning to occur at local level to allow for better localized needs analysis, improved land identification, zoning & procurement, and provision of bulk infrastructure
Policy Conditional Grant Other Plethora of Funding for Human Settlements Education Health BNG Land Transport Electricity Water, Sanitation IHAHSD MIG INEP NDG Land Grant PT & IG Prov ES Prov ES Province Province Province Eskom Water Boards Developer Human S Water Land CG DoT DoE NT Educat Health Municipalities Urban Electricity Houses Water Internal Infrastructure Sanitation Roads Social Amenities Residential Land HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Current Conjuncture (1) • Land-Use Planning & Management • Broad consensus that the country needs a new Planning Act. • Locate all national planning legislation within a single department. • Central point of co-ordination from which to reference the planning frameworks the various spheres of government.
Current Conjuncture (2) • Institutional Arrangements: Roles & Responsibilities of Government • Legislative amendment: correct the current ambiguities of role of local government i.r.t. land-use mgt, planning & human settlement delivery. • Legislative functions of Local Government: from normative to prescriptive?
Current Conjuncture (3) • Human Settlement Development Grants • Plethora of funding sources to be rationalised and aligned. • Hsg Grant: conditions for disbursements to be tighten i.r.t. sprawl & containment, but also to densification and in-fill development
How do we define sprawl? • Delft • 115 du/ha • Gordon's Bay • 12 du/ha
How do we define sprawl? • Bloekombos • 140 du/ha • Erinvale • 14 du/ha