Spatial Planning
ABOUT US:
The Spatial Planning Directorate is responsible for provincial spatial planning in the Western Cape. In addition, it provides advice and support to other Western Cape Government departments, national departments, other organs of state, municipalities, the public, and the private sector on Spatial Planning and Land Use Management matters, as well as monitoring and overseeing the performance of spatial planning in the Western Cape
Spatial Planning is a strategic process, underpinned by evidence-based and normative urban and regional planning approaches, that seeks to organize, coordinate and integrate how the economy, society and the built environment operate in space, in a manner that is complementary over the long term, to the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems and landscapes, and the need to ensure their protection and restoration.
Spatial Planning seeks to:
- ensure that integrated, long-term forward-planning is carried out at a municipal, regional and provincial scale, primarily through the development and implementation of Spatial Development Frameworks;
- drive the national and provincial spatial development agenda through these and other planning instruments; such as, regional plans and municipal Integrated Development Plans;
- promote better spatial planning practices through gathering and sharing spatial intelligence, and the development of tools; such as guidelines, practice notes; etc.;
- promote the implementation of spatial plans through sector plans and programmes, municipal, provincial and national budgets and land use management decisions; etc. and ;
- facilitate spatial transformation through targeted interventions led by the Mobility and Spatial Transformation Priority in the Provincial Strategic Plan
The Spatial Planning Directorate partners with the Development Planning Intelligence Management and Research Directorate. This Directorate conducts research, gathers and develops intelligence and builds knowledge management platforms to support evidence-based development planning in the Western Cape.
CURRENT PROGRAMMES:
Provincial Spatial Planning:
- Western Cape Government Sector Planning Alignment: Embedding the Western Cape’s spatial development strategy – the – the Provincial Spatial Development Framework (PSDF) and Regional Spatial Implementation Frameworks (RSIF) - in the plans, programmes and budgets of the Western Cape Government Departments who have a major impact on the built environment.
- Gender mainstreaming in provincial spatial planning
Regional Spatial Planning:
- Regional Spatial Implementation Framework (RSIF) implementation facilitation and monitoring
- Greater Cape Metro Region / Cape Winelands Growth Modelling and Demand Mapping
Municipal Spatial Planning:
- Municipal Spatial Development Framework Support Programme, inclusive of a MSDF Support Toolkit (see link below under Municipal Spatial Planning Resources)
- Capital Expenditure Framework Support Programme
Targeted Spatial Transformation Interventions:
- Western Cape Inclusionary Housing Policy Framework