In a case study of the Hanipark informal settlement in Matjhabeng Local Municipality, key informants from the Free State Province, identified from the various stakeholders involved in the upgrading process, were interviewed to determine the causes of the failure of the planning processes. Ortho-rectified images from 2000 and 2003 were also analyzed to determine the spatial trends of the informal settlement during the informal settlement upgrade of the study area. Over a three-year period between 2000 and 2003, the number of informal settlement residents increased by more than 1,000 households, increasing settlement density and expanding the informal settlement area by more than 10 ha.
The results of the study suggest that an adaptation of current practices centered on the UN_HABITAT procedure may be more successful in improving informal settlements.
INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- PROBLEM ANALYSIS
- SETTLEMENT LAND ACQUISITION GRANT (SLAG) AND
- RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
- RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
- RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- METHODOLOGY
- LITERATURE REVIEW
- COLLECTION OF SECONDARY DATA
- GIS analysis of informal settlement expansion trends in the
- Interviews with key informants
- Materials
This research investigates the nature and causes of failure of conventional informal settlement improvement based on physical planning using the Hanipark informal settlement as a case study. The research also explores some of the recent approaches to in-situ improvement of informal settlements and presents a proposal for integration. This study aims to determine the nature and causes of the failure of informal settlements to improve land tenure security and basic communal services using the Hanipark informal settlement as a case study.
Local and international literature was reviewed to gain insight into the problem of land use planning and in-situ upgrading of informal settlement.
LAND USE PLANNING FOR INFORMAL SETTLEMENT
INTRODUCTION
Mazur and Qangule (1995) as cited in Urban Studies Unit of the Cape Town City Council showed that Cape Town and growing number of informal settlement dwellers and a. Improving living conditions in informal settlements is one of the most complex and urgent challenges facing developing countries today. As a result of the ongoing lack of work, the growth of informal settlements exceeds the province's ability to provide formal housing opportunities.
Mayibuye1 Program (MP) and Informal Settlement Improvement Program (ISUP). a) The deputy takes measures to release free land, with minimal service, for quick systematization.
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK IN GENERAL13
Social housing has been shown to be able to significantly address urban renewal concerns and improve housing density. Local authorities implicitly have a key role to play as partners in the development of social housing. However, the social housing sector has been dependent on various international donors for financial support.
To achieve its housing objectives and provide coherence to the social housing sector, the Government will pursue the establishment, regulation and maintenance of social housing institutions through a structured and specific policy programme. This social housing policy outlines the government's proposed range of interventions as an overarching approach to drive development of the sector. To ensure residents' engagement with the social housing institution (SHI) and/or key stakeholders in the wider environment through defined meaningful consultation, information sharing, education, training and skills transfer.
To ensure a safe stay for the residents of social housing institutions, based on the general provisions for the relationship between residents and social housing institutions, as defined in the Housing Act 1997 and the Tenancy Act 1999 – Chapter 3, section 4 (1 ) to (5). To promote the creation of sustainable, viable and legally independent housing institutions responsible for providing and/or developing, maintaining and managing the social housing stock. Ensuring transparency, accountability and efficiency in the management and management of the social housing stock.
To promote best practices and compliance with minimum norms and standards, in relation to the provision and management of social housing as a sector. To promote the use of public funds in such a way as to stimulate and/or facilitate private sector investment and participation in the social housing sector.
LAND USE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICE
- Informal land market
- International Federation of Surveyors
- The benefits of participation
- The practicalities of participatory planning
- Well-informed planning
- Services
- Approaches to the upgrading of informal settlement in-situ
The second one implies that informal land markets, on the other hand, are a divergence or alternative construct to that of the government, which works against the proposed system. The third occurs when the land use of a specific site is not in keeping with the zoning or planning scheme of the city or country. iv). Most of the time they settle in an area very close to the town; within walking distance to town to avoid having to pay for transport.
The seriousness of the crisis determines the level of the price, the reason being worth as much as the value of the need. Clarify the role of each stakeholder in the implementation of the shared city-wide LIM vision – all stakeholders at the political, service and citizen levels must fully understand their roles and responsibilities in the implementation of their components of the shared city-wide LIM vision. Ensure implementation is business/user driven – priorities for implementing a city-wide LIM must be driven by real business/user needs and deliver clear benefits to the city (improved decision-making and efficiency) and to citizens (engage them in decision making).
These guidelines support the fact that it is impossible to use the desktop planning style and exclude communities from planning. This style is not only aimed at cities, but also at the rest of the world. The community being upgraded is a key element in the provision of information and a structured information system should be established as soon as possible to implement the manual's guidelines on best practices such as security of tenure and access to land information between the professionals and the communities. What is most interesting about most of these approaches is the extent to which they reflect external perceptions of the world. seen from the perspective of politicians and professionals.
The first, represented by approach five, can be seen more as a master plan, where the final spatial relationship is defined and this then becomes the main focus of improvement. 2001) argue that a common feature of both these approaches is that an official position (ie the cadastral definition of each individual location) comes only as the final step in the process, not as the first step.
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANS (IDP)
- INTRODUCTION
- WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO DO AN IDP?
- Effective use of scarce resources
- It helps to speed up delivery
- It helps to attract additional funds
- It strengthens democracy
- It helps to overcome the legacy of apartheid
- It promotes co-ordination between local, provincial and national
- WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE IDP PROCESS?
- Municipality
- Councillors
- Communities and other stakeholders
- National and provincial sector departments
- UPGRADING INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN THE MATJHABENG
- Stand allocation
- Land titling
- EMERGENCE OF IDP CONCEPT: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
- CONSTITUTIONAL GUIDELINES
- DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY AND LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
- POLICY INTENTIONS OF IMPLEMENTING THE IDP PROCESS
- LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES
- Legislative requirements
After each local government election, the new council must decide on the future of the IDP. The IDP coordinator reports directly to the municipal manager and the executive committee or the executive mayor. The IDP will help the local municipality to focus on the most important needs of local.
The IDP process encourages all stakeholders living and doing business within a municipal area to participate in the preparation and implementation of the development plan. Departments should participate in the IDP process so that they can be guided in using their resources to meet local needs. In the past, local government was nationally led, control-oriented and focused on discrete development.
However, transformation and legal reforms in the field of planning have led to the emergence of the concept of the IDP, as embodied in the MSA. Elements of the policy intentions underlying the adoption of integrated development planning in South Africa are contained in the White Paper on Local Government (1998). Explicit provision in the IDP on how and to what extent the municipality will meet the basic needs of the community.
Article 156 (1) of the Constitution specifies that “a. municipality has executive authority in respect of and has the right to administer”. a) the local government matters listed in Part B of Schedules 4 and 5 of Municipal Systems Act 32; and. The legal requirements of the IDP process and report are specified in the Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 (MSA).
DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY AREA
- MATJHABENG LOCAL MUNICIPALITY AS AN ECONOMIC
- POPULATION STATISTICS OF MATJHABENG LOCAL
- LEVEL OF EDUCATION IN MATJHABENG LOCAL MUNICIPALITY. 39
- Analysis of the informal settlement expansion trend
- Spatial manifestation of conventional planning failure
- Key informant interviews
- Origin of Hanipark settlers
- Priority needs of Hanipark settlers
Some residents were removed from the nearby Thabong district in the early 2000s during the local municipality's so-called "Operation Clean Out". A small percentage of Hanipark residents are employed in the Welkom CBD, some are self-employed and a larger percentage are unemployed. Inhabitants of the informal settlement urgently need permanent settlement with secure properties and services, schools, churches, shopping facilities, etc.
Most of the population is concentrated in three main hubs as shown in Figure 2, namely Welkom (44%), Virginia (23%) and Odendaalsrus (19%). The education level statistics of Matjhabeng Local Municipality, shown in Figure 3, show that more than 10% of the population has no formal education. The panchromatic aerial photograph (Figure 5) shows the settlement pattern of the informal settlement in 2000, when the municipality estimated the expected settlement at 4,700.
The polygon shown in white in Figure 5 was digitized on the screen to form the extent boundary of the informal settlement. The new boundary marking the extent of the Hanipark informal settlement, as seen in the 2003 laser image, was digitized on the screen as a polygon. The two lines shown in Figure 6 show a significant increase in the spatial extent of the informal settlement between the two dates.
Based on the reported achievements, it cannot be claimed that the planning of upgrading the Hanipark informal settlement has failed. Thabong tried to do the upgrade on site, so the evictions of the courtyard tenants (late comers) were in what was called "Operation Clearing".
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
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