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The RodePlan department specialises in town and regional planning:

  • Land-use control (rezoning, subdivision, departure, consent use, removal of title restrictions, zoning schemes)
  • Spatial planning (spatial development frameworks (SDFs) and plans (SDPs))
  • Governmental integrated development planning (IDP) (process and products), supported by a geographic information system (GIS).

The experience within RodePlan covers a wide spectrum of town planning issues, as well as development planning processes and products at macro, meso and micro level. An in-depth understanding of the

  • social
  • built
  • economic
  • political, and
  • environmental

elements that underpin present-day society, and within which contemporary spatial planning operates, inform our approach. RodePlan considers these four elements as fundamental to an SDF in order for spatial planning to complement economic growth and development.

We also advise private clients on the development potential of specific properties and/or land disposal strategies. This is done in collaboration with our expertise as property economists.

RodePlan’s target clientele includes property owners, developers, engineering companies and government institutions.

The ultimate aim of our planning function is to foster pathways to enable sustainable development.

Recent work:

  Project Client
Research
  1. Land use management as conducted by 12 South African City administrations (2008)
  2. The use of information technology for better municipal decision-making (2008)
  3. An assessment of the Provincial Government Western Cape land-release programme (2009)
  4. Scoping Report: as an essential guideline to develop a framework that can be used for quantitative reporting on land markets across sub-Saharan Africa (ongoing)
 Urban LandMark
Gauteng Province: Development Trend Analysis (2009) Gauteng Provincial Government, Department of Economic and Development Planning
Spatial planning Cape Winelands Spatial Development Framework 2009/2010 (ongoing) Cape Winelands District Municipality
Land-use control Renewable energy: Wind energy facility, Hopefield, Western Cape (2009) Umoya Energy
Renewable energy: Solar energy facility, Berg Rivier municipal area (2010, preliminary work) Solaire Direct

Sub-consultants used by us (to date): Aurecon; Prof. WH Thomas; Ignite Advisory Services (Pty) Ltd and Jan Palm Consulting Engineers.

The RodePlan team consists of:

 

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