1 RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act
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Usually, the structure line location (also referred to as a structure constraint location) might be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).
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Coverage - a term usually defined in a land usage scheme which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. To put it simply, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from computing such location within the confines of the outer delineation of the footprint of all building structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m two of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this usually refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a number of home systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into an effective 2 home systems that may be erected on the land in question.

DALRRD - Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. This Department is the custodian of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) and the controling authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to procure the authorisation of the pertinent ecological authority (either or nationwide), to conduct a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually expressed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that might be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross flooring area that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use plan (likewise commonly described as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a website of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m TWO.

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing several erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in certain land use plans this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable location". In other words, the location of the structure capable of being the topic of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually omit non-leasable areas of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use scheme, it is usually only relevant to the estimation of the required number of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service plan" of the town showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial development structure highlights the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (usually along the border limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and nationwide roadways and higher order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town preparation scheme).

NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)

Ordinance - might refer to the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), additionally the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)

PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the process of addressing the modification of a land usage plan (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land usage rights and development restrictions applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the written decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect assessment procedure (it may be favorable or negative).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 variations specifically:

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (relevant to all provinces aside from Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only suitable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a bondage and refers to a "right-of-way". To put it simply, it manages gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private highway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous experimental knowing into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold a certified tertiary qualification in the pertinent field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners instituted in regards to the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as considered in SPLUMA, 2013 and the City Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a town (its future wanted state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy usually defined in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, access provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and related functions. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into urban land (a township or suburb) which might consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the township will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to manage and manage making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this usually refers to the corner element of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, focused on working out the turning motion of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this typically describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cable televisions, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by referral to a yoke diagram (depicting the location so afflicted). Typically, bondage locations may not be encroached upon by building structures and the information of such bondages are normally explained in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land location. This may include a General Plan of a municipality or a subdivided location where numerous erven or partitioned parts are shown on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a particular set of land use and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will generally validate the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to advancement limitations such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so forth.