– Investigating the Town Planning potential of properties.
– Assisting clients and attorneys in compiling documentation required for the Regulation 38 Certificates.
– Identifying non-compliance with Town Planning regulations within client’s property portfolios.
– Updating property files (with new Town Planning information ) for property holding companies.
– Walking Site Development Plans and or Building Plans through Municipalities for their approval.
– Acquiring land for our clients.
– Identifying suitable land for specific developments.
Town Planning Rezoning and Township Establishment
Any landowner wishing to change the current land use of his/her property needs to go through a legal process which may be a Township Establishment (converting farm land to urban land) or a Rezoning (changing land uses in an existing urban areas). In both cases, we will prepare and submit a motivated application to the relevant Municipality in terms of the relevant legislation. The application must be advertised for possible objections and the various Municipal departments must provide their comments. After any objections and departmental comments have been received, the Municipal Town Planning Department writes the report for final decision.
Town Planning Arbitration Process
Should objections be received, the arbitration process is set in motion. A Tribunal date is set by the Municipality to hear the objections. We will prepare our case to oppose the objections at the Tribunal Hearing. We also lodge objections on behalf of our clients against other applications. In those cases, we prepare our client’s case against an application to argue that the Tribunal should rule in our client’s favour.
Other Town Planning applications and services
We also handle subdivisions, consolidations, removal of restrictions (from title deeds) and Consent Use applications. We assist attorneys with acquiring property registration documentation (formerly called “Regulation 38” Certificates). We also undertake “due diligence” investigations for properties that our clients are thinking of buying.