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Strategies for Managing Urban Sprawl and Enhancing Human Settlement Delivery

This workshop presents a comprehensive analysis of urban sprawl and its implications for human settlements. It explores the intersections of planning law, governance, and housing delivery mechanisms, emphasizing the critical role of local government in managing urban development. Key topics include the challenges of planning legislation, the need for targeted funding, and the importance of integrating land use with housing provision. By addressing current legislative ambiguities and proposing a consolidated planning framework, participants will gain insights into effective strategies for sustainable urban growth.

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Strategies for Managing Urban Sprawl and Enhancing Human Settlement Delivery

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  1. ADD NAME/TITLE HERE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE WORKSHOP Urban Sprawl & Human Settlement Delivery 15 August 2014

  2. 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

  3. Planning Law & H/Settlement Delivery (1) • National Planning Law & Frameworks

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

  6. 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

  7. Concurrent Plng & Hsg Delivery Functions

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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?

  12. 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

  13. How do we define sprawl? • Delft • 115 du/ha • Gordon's Bay • 12 du/ha

  14. How do we define sprawl? • Bloekombos • 140 du/ha • Erinvale • 14 du/ha

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