Transcript SOUTH AFRICAN PLANNING INSTITUTE

SOUTH AFRICAN PLANNING INSTITUTE
Some of the priorities
1. working together to speed up economic growth and transform the
economy to create decent work and sustainable livelihoods
2. introduce a massive programme to build economic and social
infrastructure
3. develop and implement a comprehensive rural development strategy
linked to land and agrarian reform and food security
4. strengthen the skills and human resource base
5. improve the health profile of all South Africans
6. intensify the fight against crime and corruption
7. build pursue African advancement and enhanced international cooperation
8. sustainable resource management and use
9. build a developmental state, improve public services and strengthen
democratic institutions
South African Planning
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Apartheid legislation - provinces
Post apartheid legislation - all three spheres
Planning Professions Act 2002
Problematic SACPLAN
LUMB - old school
National Planning Commission
Land Use Management
• Is an aspect of spatial planning
• Should be part of a part of national
development strategy
• Should be linked to national planning and
planning legislation and applied locally
• Should promote co-operative governance subsidiarity
What is needed?
• Simple, single piece of national legislation - avoid provincial
laws that assume that provincial differences necessitate
separate law - its about the applicability
• Recognition of assymetrical allocation of powers and functions to provinces and municipalities - subsidiarity based on PGDS
and IDP
• Everyone can do strategic planning (IDP, PGDS) but operational
planning requires tools that allows for implementation – Remove unnecessary constraints and processes
– Educating decision-makers - good planning, bad decisions
– “Professionalisation” of the profession - good laws, bad
officials, inappropriately trained planners
a national uniform legal framework is critical
National Legislation
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Spatial Planning legislation must be part of national planning legislation
Must establish a uniform system of spatial planning across the country
which goes beyond land use management. In particular, it should
cover the following subjects:
– Define the role of each sphere by providing clarity to Schedules 4 and 5 of
the Constitution
– Establish a system of delegations so that each sphere is able to take
decisions autonomously within the framework of their PGDSs and IDPs
– Establish consistent terminology
– Provide simplified and predictable development assessments
procedures
– Differentiate between strategic, simple and complex development
applications. These should be accompanied by defined time frames for
assessments. For example, particular projects in townships could be
identified as areas where accelerated land use decision-making might apply
– Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for land use management, with
the specific aim of ensuring implementation of strategic plans and projects
What CoGTA could Consider
• Engage with Presidency on LUMB
• Become the institutional home for the
Planning Profession
• Establish Spatial Planning Branch as
part of PGDS and IDP mandates
• Become an implementing agency for
NPC