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Map 6: Cliffdale Environmental Service Overlay Map
5.8 Conclusion
as the area develops and formalise over time, the conventional scheme procedures would then be applied.
The function of community representatives pertaining to day to day agric village management and administration, could be engaged in the followingfunctions:
• Allocation of areas to beneficiaries moving in accordance tothe Framework Plan;
• Taking complaints and queries on a range of issues related to infrastructure, life of village etc;
• Dealing with issues on social and cultural life of the village - burials in municipal cemetery, interpersonal problems, community policing;
• Assist the municipality in facilitating the provision of basic services, such as sanitation (VIP's) and workshops on the use of services and responsibilities;
• Recording and approving the position of buildings and theuse of land;
• Monitoring adherence to, and sustainability of, building useand resources;
• Undertake awareness and education programmes;
• Running of twice-monthly Sunday meetings, which are public meetings, for all residents to maintain information and communication flows.
recommendations for improved approaches. However is was also learnt that some of these approaches and conventional controls alone are unlikelyto be sufficient and it is likely that ways of combining them, along side more incentive related programmes, must be established to form an effective land use management strategy.
Throughout this dissertation an attempt has been made to respond to the subsidiary questions as well posed at the outset. The approaches applied to Cliffdale have been successful to a certain degree and certainly has been seen as a better model to the current Town Planning Scheme model. Although these approaches have only been tested using the Cliffdale Land Use Scheme, it is suggested that these guidelines be tested further on a number of actual scheme reviews and the preparation of new Land Use Schemes. In doing so it should be remembered that the approaches contained in this dissertation are not exhaustive, they have been based on limited pilot areas only and one adopted Land Use Scheme. Planners reviewing or preparing Land Use Schemes should consciously seek to build on the mechanisms suggested and to ensure the relevance of those that have been documented. If they are not relevant to an area they should not be included in the scheme document. This will only frustrate the public and discreditthe process.
It has been stated in the LUMS Manual that a Land Use Scheme gives effect to the spatial visions, policies and strategies contained in an lOP as documented in the SOF, and linking elements. The Scheme therefore needs a strong policy link to these plans. A brief summary of the lOP vision statement, SOF and other important spatial policies should ideally be provided in the Scheme to reinforce linkages between the various planning documents. However, if any of the aspects listed in the summary change, procedures for amending a Scheme would have to be followed. If there is uncertainty about these aspects or if they are likely to be changed in the short-term, a summary document encompassing these elements should be prepared and referred to in the Scheme. A crosscutting problem that has emerged in the research of the various Land Use Scheme components in this dissertation, is the absence of reference to "informants" that were used in the preparation and or revision of Land Use Schemes. It is notan every day opportunity that municipal planners get involved in the preparation or revision of Land Use Schemes. Most cases with municipalities that lack planning experience or capacity, such work is outsourced. The result is a Land Use Scheme that has been prepared
by consultants with no reference made to the informants and supporting documents that informed the policy statements, zoning typologies, definitions and controls. In experienced municipal officials are therefore most often left with the problem of either trying to interpret certain scheme sections or are subjected to scheme amendments without knowing what the thinking and rationale where behind those who had prepared the Land Use Schemes.
The approach of integrating environmental management mechanismswith incentive tools outlined in this dissertation, would be of benefit to:
• Officials at a local, metropolitan, district and provincial level in the preparation and review of Town Planning Schemes, scheme approvals and the assessment of development applications.
• Developers who will be made aware of environmental issues for example at the outset of the development process and who, by having access to the reasoning behind certain development controls can participate in the process and contribute to win-win development approaches.
• Consultants advising both government and the public who will have access to explicit controls, policies and decisions guidelines.
The lessons learnt from the application of these approaches should continually feed into the planning profession to improve the future review process of LUMS. It may be useful to establish a formal monitoring and review process to review the success of the application of these approaches with its associated guidelines and control mechanisms and to amend them as better practice is developed.
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