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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally defined in a land use plan which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. Simply put, the coverage is a portion of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from calculating such location within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all building structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a website of 1000m two will be 400m two of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, usually revealed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m two will equate into an effective 2 home systems that may be put up on the land in concern.

DALRRD - Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. This Department is the custodian of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) and the controling authority of the preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to procure the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that might be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross floor area that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (also typically referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting several erven and streets or subdivided erven or farm portions on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in certain land use schemes this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the area of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally omit non-leasable areas of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is typically just relevant to the calculation of the required variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business strategy" of the town indicating how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial development framework highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may consist of a reference to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (normally along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and national roads and greater order roads within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town scheme).

NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)

Ordinance - may refer to the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), alternatively the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)

PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of attending to the modification of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and advancement limitations appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the composed decision bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect evaluation procedure (it might be favorable or negative).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions specifically:

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (relevant to all provinces besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only applicable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "right of way". To put it simply, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private roadway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior speculative learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold an accredited tertiary credentials in the appropriate field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners set up in regards to the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as contemplated in SPLUMA, 2013 and the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a municipality (its future preferred state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the intended advancement on a residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be erected, gain access to arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of yokes and related features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into metropolitan land (a town or suburb) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the township will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to manage and handle the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner component of the crossway between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, focused on negotiating the turning motion of motor lorries moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this typically describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a bondage diagram (depicting the area so afflicted). Typically, servitude areas might not be intruded upon by building structures and the information of such yokes are typically described in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other land location. This may consist of a General Plan of a town or a subdivided area where multiple erven or partitioned portions are reflected on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific set of land use and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will generally confirm the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to advancement constraints such as height restrictions, protection constraints, floor area restrictions, parking requirements and so on.