1 RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act
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Usually, the building line area (likewise explained as a building restriction area) may be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally defined in a land usage 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. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining such location within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all constructing 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 structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a variety of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will equate into an efficient 2 residence units that might be erected on the land in question.

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 treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate environmental authority (either provincial or national), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in terms of the policies to NEMA.

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

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 specific land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable location". To put it simply, the location of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease arrangement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically omit non-leasable areas of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is generally only appropriate to the calculation of the required variety of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement framework shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

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

LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town preparation plan).

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

Ordinance - might describe the Town Planning 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 taking care of the amendment of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and advancement restrictions appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the written decision bied far by an environmental authority, following an environmental impact evaluation procedure (it may be positive or unfavorable).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right-of-way". To put it simply, it manages gain access to 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 principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, notwithstanding that a person might not hold an accredited tertiary qualification 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 area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan usually defined in a land use plan which holistically shows the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be set up, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and related features. An SDP usually precedes the submission of a building strategy.

Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into urban land (a municipality or residential area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the town will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to manage and manage using land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner part of the intersection in between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface area, intended at working out the turning motion of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cables, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by reference to a thrall diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, yoke locations might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the information of such thralls are typically explained in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other land location. This may consist of a General Plan of a town or a subdivided area where numerous erven or partitioned parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land use and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will typically verify the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to development limitations such as height constraints, protection constraints, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so forth.