MEDIA RELEASE

25 SEPTEMBER 2013

TSHWANE TOWN PLANNING SCHEME, 2008 (REVISED 2013)

The City of Tshwane approved a Draft Tshwane Town-planning Scheme, 2008 (Revised 2013) for the entire municipal area at its Council meeting on 31 July 2013.

This new Draft Tshwane Town-planning Scheme, 2008, which is available for public comment was adopted with compliments from all the main parties in Council and is recognised as a major achievement for the City.

The draft Tshwane Town-planning Scheme, 2008 (Revised 2013) is open to inspection during normal office hours at the office of the Strategic Executive Director : City Planning and Development, Room LG004,Isivuno Building, 143 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria, from 8:00 till 15:00 Monday to Friday, from 2 October 2013 until 30 November 2013. Enquiries may be made at telephone (012) 358-7642 or e-mailed to .

Objections to or representations in respect of the scheme must be lodged in writing with the Strategic Executive Director: City Planning and Development, Room LG004 Isivuno Building, 143 LilianNgoyi Street, Pretoria or posted to P.O.Box 3242, Pretoria, 0001, from 2 October 2013, provided that, should objections and/or representations be sent by mail, such objections and/or representations must reach the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality before or on 30 November 2013.

A Town-planning Scheme is a legal document required by both the Town-planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 and the Gauteng Planning and Development Act,2003. It determines the general rules for the development of properties and specifically determines the following:

  • The use of a property ( zoning)
  • The development density (density zoning) of a property
  • The development controls, i.e. the height, size (bulk or floor area / floor area ratio (FAR/FSR) and extent of development (through building lines and building restriction areas, on a property as well as parking and access issues).

Each and every property within a town planning scheme area has a specific use zone and coupled to that use zone may be a number of development and density controls.

The Tshwane Town-planning Scheme, 2008, will be amended by the incorporation of the former Kungwini and Nokeng Tsa Taemane municipal areas into the Tshwane scheme simultaneous with the substitution of the existing four Schemes in operation in these areas vz. The Bronkhorstspruit Town-planning Scheme, 1980, the Greater Cullinan Town-planning Scheme, 1999, the Peri-Urban Areas Town-planning Scheme,1975 and the Pretoria Region Town-planning Scheme, 1960 and townships which have been established in terms of other relevant legislation such as the Black Communities Development Act, 1984, the Less Formal Township Establishment Act, 1991, the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act, 1991 and the Development Facilitation Act, 1995.

These four former Schemes and other relevant land use legislation areas will after the promulgation of the amendment to the Tshwane Scheme be rescinded and will no longer be in operation in the said areas of City of Tshwane. All the approved consent uses and promulgated rezoning and townships of the former scheme areas will be taken up into the Tshwane Scheme data base (ARC Gis data base). The amended Tshwane Scheme will thereafter be the only Town-planning Scheme in operation in the City of Tshwane municipal area and all zonings and scheme terminology will be standardised throughout the new Tshwane municipal area.

Since the Tshwane Scheme came into operation in June 2008 it has become evident that there are several ostensible errors and/or oversights in the clauses as well as several omissions in the definitions which now need to be rectified. The other amendments are to remove ambiguity of the clauses, to make them more user friendly as well as adding some new definitions requested by various Department’s Sections and private town planning consultants.