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Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (Act No. 16 of 2013)

Chapter 5 : Land Use Management

24. Land use scheme

 

 

(1) A municipality must, after public consultation, adopt and approve a single land use scheme for its entire area within five years from the commencement of this Act.

 

(2) A land use scheme adopted in terms of subsection (1) must—
(a) include appropriate categories of land use zoning and regulations for the entire municipal area, including areas not previously subject to a land use scheme;
(b) take cognisance of any environmental management instrument adopted by the relevant environmental management authority, and must comply with environmental legislation;
(c) include provisions that permit the incremental introduction of land use management and regulation in areas under traditional leadership, rural areas, informal settlements, slums and areas not previously subject to a land use scheme;
(d) include provisions to promote the inclusion of affordable housing in residential land development;
(e) include land use and development incentives to promote the effective implementation of the spatial development framework and other development policies;
(f) include land use and development provisions specifically to promote the effective implementation of national and provincial policies; and
(g) give effect to municipal spatial development frameworks and integrated development plans.

 

(3) A land use scheme may include provisions relating to—
(a) the use and development of land only with the written consent of the municipality;
(b) specific requirements regarding any special zones identified to address the development priorities of the municipality; and
(c) the variation of conditions of a land use scheme other than a variation which may materially alter or affect conditions relating to the use, size and scale of buildings and the intensity or density of land use.

 

(4) The local municipalities within a district municipality may by agreement request the district municipality to prepare a land use scheme applicable to the municipal areas of the constituent local municipalities within that district municipality.