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

Chapter 1 : Introductory Provisions

5. Categories of spatial planning

 

 

(1) Municipal planning, for the purposes of this Act, consists of the following elements:
(a) The compilation, approval and review of integrated development plans;
(b) the compilation, approval and review of the components of an integrated development plan prescribed by legislation and falling within the competence of a municipality, including a spatial development framework and a land use scheme; and
(c) the control and regulation of the use of land within the municipal area where the nature, scale and intensity of the land use do not affect the provincial planning mandate of provincial government or the national interest.

 

(2) Provincial planning, for the purposes of this Act, consists of the following elements:
(a) The compilation, approval and review of a provincial spatial development framework;
(b) monitoring compliance by municipalities with this Act and provincial legislation in relation to the preparation, approval, review and implementation of land use management systems;
(c) the planning by a province for the efficient and sustainable execution of its legislative and executive powers insofar as they relate to the development of land and the change of land use; and
(d) the making and review of policies and laws necessary to implement provincial planning.

 

(3) National planning, for the purposes of this Act, consists of the following elements:
(a) The compilation, approval and review of spatial development plans and policies or similar instruments, including a national spatial development framework;
(b) the planning by the national sphere for the efficient and sustainable execution of its legislative and executive powers insofar as they relate to the development of land and the change of land use; and
(c) the making and review of policies and laws necessary to implement national planning, including the measures designed to monitor and support other spheres in the performance of their spatial planning, land use management and land development functions.