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Human Settlement Plan HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLAN PHASE 2: STRATEGIES AND POLICIES Draft for Discussion May 2010 LANGEBERG MUNICIPALITY HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLAN –DRAFT 1 ii Prepared for: The Housing Manager: Langeberg Municipality Tel: 023 626 8200 Prepared by: MCA Urban and Environmental Planners Tel: +27 (0) 21 674 0424 Fax: +27 (0) 21 674 0748 MCA Urban and Environmental Planners 202 Heritage House Dreyer Street Claremont Cape Town P.O. Box 13640 Mowbray Cape Town South Africa 7705 www.mcaplan.co.za ii LANGEBERG MUNICIPALITY HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLAN –DRAFT 1 iii Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................5 1.1 Background.......................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 The HSP in Context............................................................................................................................................. 5 1.2.1 The HSP: a chapter in the IDP .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.2.2 Role of National Policy: “Breaking New Ground” ........................................................................................... 5 1.2.3 Role of Provincial Policy: “Isidima”................................................................................................................. 5 1.2.4 Role of the Local Municipality ......................................................................................................................... 6 2. LANGEBERG MUNICIPAL CONTEXT ........................................................................................7 2.1 Langeberg Human Settlement Plan Development: Approach and Process ................................................... 7 2.2 The Housing Challenge ....................................................................................................................................... 7 3. HOUSING VISION AND SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA .................................................................8 3.1 Vision and Objectives.......................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1.1 National Housing Vision................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Provincial Vision: Isidima Principles................................................................................................................. 8 3.3 Langeberg Municipality: Vision, Mission and Strategic Objectives............................................................... 9 3.4 Langeberg Municipality: Sustainable Settlements Vision and Mission........................................................ 10 3.5 Role of settlements............................................................................................................................................. 10 3.6 Settlement Selection........................................................................................................................................... 13 3.7 Settlement Sustainability Performance Criteria and Evaluation.................................................................. 13 3.8 Settlement Evaluation ....................................................................................................................................... 14 3.9 Settlment Evaluation: SWOT Analysis............................................................................................................ 15 4. TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENTS: STRATEGIES AND POLICIES...................................17 4.1 Strategic Approach............................................................................................................................................ 17 4.2 Overarching Cape Winelands ISHSP Strategies and Policies ....................................................................... 18 4.2.1 CBD and Associated Suburbs ......................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.2 Linkage Areas between CBDs and Townships ............................................................................................... 19 4.2.3 Township areas................................................................................................................................................ 20 4.3 Application of ISHSP Strategies to Langeberg Towns................................................................................... 21 4.3.1 Robertson ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 4.3.2 Ashton ............................................................................................................................................................. 23 4.4 Policy Guidelines ............................................................................................................................................... 28 5. CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................30 iii LANGEBERG MUNICIPALITY HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLAN –DRAFT 1 iv LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Development Potential of towns........................................................................................................ 11 Table 2: CWSDF: Strategic Objectives ............................................................................................................. 12 Table 3: Langeberg Settlement Hierarchy....................................................................................................... 13 Table 4 LANGEBERG Sustainable Settlement Evaluation ................................................................................ 14 Table 5: SWOT Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 15 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Cape Winelands Bioregional Sub regions......................................................................................... 12 Figure 2 CWIHP Method to Identify Sustainable Housing Locations .............................................................. 17 Figure 3: Robertson: Conceptual Spatial Strategy.......................................................................................... 22 Figure 4: Ashton: Conceptual Spatial Strategy ................................................................................................ 24 Figure 5: Montagu Conceptual Spatial Strategy.............................................................................................. 25 Figure 6: Bonnievale Conceptual Spatial Strategy........................................................................................... 27 Figure 7: McGregor: Conceptual Spatial Strategy ........................................................................................... 28 iv LANGEBERG MUNICIPALITY HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLAN –DRAFT 1 5 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Fifteen years of the South African housing delivery programme has brought shelter to many households. However, economic opportunities, social and community facilities, variety in tenure and typology and the quality of top structures have been sacrificed in the drive to meet the housing demand. The National Department of Housing and its provincial counterpart in the Western Cape have introduced policy reforms to address these oversights. The focus has therefore shifted towards the qualitative aspects of housing and developing settlements as a whole rather than merely the supply of houses. These shifts are captured in the National Housing Policy (Breaking New Ground) and in the Western Cape Integrated Human Settlements Policy (Isidima). Taking the lead from these policy guidelines the Langeberg Municipality aims to address the Housing and its related issues in a strategic manner through developing a Human Settlement Plan. 1.2 The HSP in Context 1.2.1 The HSP: a chapter in the IDP The Human Settlement Plan is an important sectoral tool within the family of IDP documents. The inclusion of the Human Settlement Plan within the IDP should achieve among others the following key goals: • Feed into the overall development of municipal policies on issues such as poverty alleviation, economic growth, environmental sustainability, disaster management and delivery of essential services • Provide the means to communicate with other spheres of government and departments around their concomitant responsibility in human settlement development • Alignment between the various municipal departments, in particular engineering services, regarding budgeting, planning and implementation in the delivery of joint sustainable human settlements 1.2.2 Role of National Policy: “Breaking New Ground” Also known as the Comprehensive Plan for Sustainable Human Settlements, the National Housing Policy approved by Cabinet reinforces the vision “to promote the achievement of a non‐racial, integrated society through the development of integrated human settlements and quality housing”. - The plan advocates the shift from housing supply to delivering integrated sustainable human settlements by: - Progressive informal settlement eradication - Promoting densification and integration - Enhancing spatial planning - Enhancing
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