Implementing Spluma: A review of four ‘Post-Spluma’ provincial planning bills

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dc.contributor.authorde Visser, Jaap
dc.contributor.authorPoswa, Xavia
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-22T12:20:12Z
dc.date.available2019-07-22T12:20:12Z
dc.date.issued2017-10
dc.description.abstractBetween 2015 and 2017, municipalities across the country developed municipal planning bylaws. Many municipalities were assisted by national government and/or provincial governments. The involvement of both the national and provincial governments was mainly driven by the aim of ensuring that the transfer of power to municipalities occurred in an orderly fashion (see the research report De Visser & Poswa (2017) Implementing SPLUMA: a Review of Municipal Planning By‐laws). More importantly, this was to ensure that municipalities have the necessary local legislation in place to perform their municipal planning function. The scope of the function expanded dramatically as a result of judgments of the Constitutional Court and the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act of 2013 (SPLUMA). SPLUMA is a framework law that does not set out in detail what municipalities have to do in order to effectively execute their municipal planning function. Each province is empowered by the Constitution to pass provincial planning laws to further regulate municipal planning in that particular province and also to regulate the provincial government’s own planning. At the time of writing, it was only the Western Cape that had made use of this constitutional power in the ‘post‐SPLUMA’ era. It is unclear whether the other provinces will complete the planning architecture envisaged by SPLUMA by passing provincial planning legislation. Some may find it sufficient to have SPLUMA and the municipal by‐laws govern planning in their respective provinces without provincial law being the intermediary law.en_US
dc.identifier.citationde Visser, J, Poswa, X., 2017. Implementing Spluma: A review of four ‘Post-Spluma’ provincial planning bills, Cape Town: Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rightsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4726
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rightsen_US
dc.subjectNational governmenten_US
dc.subjectMunicipalitiesen_US
dc.subjectConstitutional Courten_US
dc.subjectSPLUMAen_US
dc.subjectProvincial lawen_US
dc.titleImplementing Spluma: A review of four ‘Post-Spluma’ provincial planning billsen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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