PREFACE
2. LEGISLATION AND POLICY COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE
2.3. PROVINCIAL POLICIES
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soil conservation, biogas, alien vegetation and water demand management. Other areas of concerntration are conservation areas, green infrastructure and more energy efficient automobiles
Four: Income Circulation
Markets as a tool for improving the local economy, pension pay points and periodic markets and rural spatial organization Five: Urban Edges Eradicating sprawl and promoting urban
compaction, urban efficiencies, protecting urban settlements, promoting small scale agriculture, managing urban waste, sustainability and recycling, avoiding hazards and guidelines for delineating the urban containment edge
Six: Heritage Cultural heritage as a landscape with their relationship with corridors and nodes Seven:
Communicati on and Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge sharing, knowledge sharing in the planning context, local level planning options, and communication with the community through different sources of communication
Eight: Agro- Hydro Agricultural development, defining agro hydrological potential based on soils, climatic drivers and available water resources; dryland agriculture, irrigated agriculture and the assessment of the land namely; slope, topography, risks, and the flooding pattern
2.3.3. PROVINCIAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 2011 (PGDS)
This document was adopted in 2004 and was later reviewed and adopted by Cabinet in August 2011. The KZN Provincial Growth and Development Strategy is the provincial long-term vision aligned with the NDP and provides the Province with a strategic framework for accelerated and shared economic growth through catalytic and developmental interventions. To realize the vision of “KwaZulu-Natal – A Prosperous Province with a healthy, secure and skilled population, acting as a gateway to Africa and the World”, there are seven strategic goals and thirty strategic objectives contained in the PGDS that will drive this Province towards the vision. The purpose of the PGDS can be summarized as follows:
Set a long-term vision
Overarching strategic framework for development in the Province
Provide spatial context and prioritisation Guide activities and resource allocation Alignment and integration
Clear institutional arrangements
Resource commitments and budget alignment .
More recently, the Provincial Growth Development Plan (PGDP) was developed to implement the strategy through catalytic
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projects setting out targets, interventions and monitoring tools guiding implementation. Progress will be monitored and evaluated through indicators with short to long term milestones.
The following diagram represents the vison, strategic goals and strategic:
The PGDS/PGDP provides a framework for public and private sector investment in the Province, indicating areas of opportunities and development priorities. It addresses key
issues of implementation blockages whilst providing strategic direction. It provides this study a framework of priority programmes necessary for poverty eradication.
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SDF
The SDF aligns with the following provincial priorities:
Strengthening governance and service delivery;
Sustainable economic development and job creation;
Integrating investment in community infrastructure; and
Fighting poverty and protecting vulnerable groups in society.
Figure 3: PGDS Goals, Objectives & Strategies
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2.3.4. SCHEMES/LAND USE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (LUMS) GUIDELINES
2.3.4.1. SCHEME OR LAND USE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LUMS) GUIDELINES
In terms of the Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000) (MSA), and the KwaZulu-Natal Planning and Development Act, 2008 (Act No. 6 of 2008), (PDA), each municipality is required to prepare a Land Use Scheme for the whole municipality. A key component of Integrated Development Plans is the requirement to prepare a Spatial Development Framework together with a Land Use Management System (LUMS) which can be applied to the whole municipality.
In terms of the new Land Use Management System for KwaZulu-Natal, a system of wall-to-wall Planning Schemes is proposed as forming the basis for the single LUMS required for municipalities.
The purpose of preparing LUMS is to promote coordinated, harmonious and environmentally sustainable development. A land use management system, in its broader sense, refers to all of the actions required by a municipality to manage land.
Some of the key elements of a comprehensive land use management system are as follows:
Spatial Development Framework;
Land Use Management Framework and Planning Schemes;
Rates database;
Cadastral and property database;
Information regarding the provision of services;
Property ownership and tenure;
Environmental issues and requirements, and Transportation requirements.
2.3.4.2. RURAL COMPONENT OF A PLANNING SCHEME The rural component of a Planning Scheme should primarily be applied to manage land:
Outside defined urban areas;
So as to promote the general principles of sustainability, efficiency and integration;
To ensure that prime agricultural land is protected, and To ensure that important areas of environmental
significance and bio-diversity are protected.
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2.3.5. PROVINCIAL SPATIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
The KZN provincial government prepared a provincial as well as District profiles as a basis for understanding the province.
Issues considered included:
An analysis of the levels of social service provision in each district;
Population dynamics;
The Gross Value Added (GVA) per district and local municipality; and
Levels of water and sanitation provision.
The PSEDS is a response to these profiles and it sets out to:
Focus where government directs its investment and development initiatives;
Capitalising on complementarities and facilitating consistent and focussed decision making; and
Bringing about strategic coordination, interaction and spatial alignment.
The PSEDS identifies priority sectors in the KZN economy which include:
The agricultural sector (including agri-processing) and land reform;
The industrial sector;
The tourism sector; and
The service sector (including government services)
In terms of corridors and nodes, the PSEDS identifies the following:
The PSEDS focuses fixed infrastructure investments in areas of economic development potential (whether realised or dormant), and prioritises areas of greatest need based on poverty densities.
The PSEDS focuses its attention on activity/development corridors. These development corridors are not intended to be the basis for a transport logistics network. It is however essential that the development corridors are adequately served by appropriate transport and logistics infrastructure.
From the classification of economic potential and the classification of poverty a matrix of development corridors and nodes has been identified which will serve to serve two functions. These functions are:
To facilitate the increased growth of existing centres and corridors of economic development in the province; and
To ensure that the potential for economic development within areas of high poverty is realised.
For this reason the nodes and development corridors include both existing well established nodes and corridors, as well as nodes and corridors which currently don’t exist or are very weak. The following map illustrates the nodes and activity identified in the PSEDS:
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2.3.6. INTEGRATED URBAN DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
The IUDF strategic goals (Access, Growth, Governance, and Spatial Transformation) inform the priority objectives of the eight levers. The levers address in combination all of the structural drivers that promote the status quo in the country.
Lever 1 -Integrated Spatial Planning: Cities and towns