HOUSING & SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT
REDRESSING T SA’S SPATIAL LEGACY W The City of Ekurhuleni believes that remedial spatial development is paramount in providing a city worth living in.
he City’s trajectory for the built environment is to drive and sharpen Ekurhuleni’s spatial form. In the revision and completion of current strategies, policies and frameworks, it aims to ensure the implementation of spatial form as expressed in the IDP and associated master plans. The spatial development agenda is advanced through various City development policies, plans, systems, growth management initiatives and budgets. The mandate hileof allthe municipalities City’s planning havefunction a duty tois drive to: change, • provide spatial on many leadership fronts, metropolitan towards creating municipalities a vibrant, have safe and sustainable the mostCity urgent practical need to redress the • wrongs play a of strategic our country’s role in racially developing driven and apartheid promoting spatial an development integrated City legacy that addresses and being spatial able toinjustices accommodate the • demands implement of initiatives urbanisation. thatKey enhance to this is a the developmental equitable provision City • of support housing, and across facilitate a diverse Strategic rangeUrban of income Developments groups, which • offers account access for an to public end-to-end transport builtand environment. public services. TheInCity 2015, Planning the CityDepartment of Ekurhuleniprovides approved services the Municipal to communities Spatial Development in the assessment Framework of development (MSDF) and it isapplications, currently building in the process plans, outdoor of completing advertising, a gapproperty analysis to encroachments inform the and nextthe generation provisionof ofthis general framework, information as wellfor asgeographical the lower-level investigations. Regional Spatial These Development services areFrameworks recognised(RSDFs), as revenue from collected which thefor reconfiguration sundry income ofand the region’s augmentdevelopment into revenue collection patterns –for particularly the City. in terms of human settlements, infrastructure The followingmegaprojects are the services and available the economy to communities – would at the bedepartment’s anchored. customer care centres across the City: • pThe rovision City has of geographic also finalisedinformation the Ekurhuleni services Integrated Infrastructure to stakeholders Master Plan, which outlines the sectoral • infrastructure advisory builtneeds environment against aligned services financial to the public, requirements investors for and long-term stakeholders infrastructure development in line with the City’s • vision granting of the of 2055 development Growth and approvals, Development building Strategy plans and its long-term outdoor advertising financial plan over a period of 30 years. • spatial coordination of sectoral plans and master plans • UNLOCKING building control DEVELOPMENT and outdoor advertising services. To allow for more developments to take place in places that PLANNING were previously restrictive, the City of Ekurhuleni has done Interactions the following: and plans by the City for the 2018/19 financial year, • It has in relation unlocked to 4 key 900focus hectares areasofofland, its core deemed business to that contributed be dolomitic, towards in the achieving Katlehong, theVosloorus, City’s service Springs delivery and
