RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act


Usually, the structure line location (also explained as a building restriction location) might be used for open air parking and landscaping.


Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).


Coverage - a term normally specified in a land use scheme which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject or commercial property, seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from calculating such area within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all constructing structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a website of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).


CPD - Continued Professional Development


Density - in preparing terms, this typically refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will equate into an effective 2 dwelling systems that may be set up on the land in concern.


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 managing authority of the preparation occupation.


EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in terms of the policies to NEMA.


FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor location that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also typically referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².


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 particular land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the area of the building capable of being the topic of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally exclude non-leasable areas of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is generally only pertinent to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.


IDP - Integrated Development Plan as contemplated in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "company strategy" of the town suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement framework illustrates the spatial ramifications of the IDP.


Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan may consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (usually along the border boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and national roadways and higher order roads within the community jurisdiction.


LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town scheme).


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


Ordinance - might describe the Town Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), alternatively 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 procedure of taking care of the amendment of a land usage plan (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and advancement constraints suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.


ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the written decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an environmental impact evaluation treatment (it might be favorable or negative).


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


• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (suitable to all provinces besides Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just applicable to Gauteng)


R.O.W - this is a servitude and refers to a "access". Simply put, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a personal roadway).


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


SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners


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


SAPI - South African Planning Institution


SDF - Spatial Development Framework as pondered in SPLUMA, 2013 and the Local 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 advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.


SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy typically specified in a land use plan which holistically illustrates the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of servitudes and related functions. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a structure plan.


SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013


Township establishment - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into urban land (an area or suburb) which may include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the township will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to regulate and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.


Splay - this generally refers to the corner part of the intersection between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface area, targeted at negotiating the turning motion of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.


Servitude - in planning terms, this generally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by reference to a thrall diagram (illustrating the location so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be trespassed upon by building structures and the details of such thralls are usually explained in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.


SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other land area. This may include a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reviewed one diagram.


Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a particular set of land usage and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will typically confirm the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development limitations such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so on.