SCOTTSVILLE LOCAL AREA PLAN & ALLIED STUDIES: PHASES 3, 4 & 5 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK INCLUDES THE IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK 20 March 2020 SCOTTSVILLE LOCAL AREA PLAN & ALLIED STUDIES: PHASES 3, 4 & 5 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK INCLUDES THE IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK CONTRACT NO: SCM 16 OF 17/18 20 March 2020 Prepared for: THE MSUNDUZI MUNICIPALITY: FORWARD PLANNING Submitted by: ROYAL HASKONINGDHV Project Manager: George Lebelo Project Manager: Ms Mignon Brooks Tel: +27 33 392 3627 Tel: +27 33 328 1000 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Prepared by: THE MARKEWICZ REDMAN PARTNERSHIP Project Leader: Mr Tony Markewicz / Miss Toni Redman Tel: +27 31 312 6325 E-mail: [email protected] CLASSIFICATION: PROJECT RELATED Disclaimer: No part of these specifications/printed matter may be reproduced and/or published by print, photocopy, microfilm or by any other means, without the prior written permission of Royal HaskoningDHV (Pty) Ltd; nor may they be used, without such permission, for any purposes other than that for which they were produced. 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SCOTTSVILLE LAP l PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (20-03-20) ii 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1 5 SPATIAL FRAMEWORKS ......................................................................... 44 1.1 Project Background ....................................................................................... 1 5.1 Environmental Framework ........................................................................... 45 1.2 Study Area ....................................................................................................... 1 5.2 Land Use Framework .................................................................................... 50 1.3 The Purpose of THE SCOTTSVILLE Local Area Plan (SLAP) ........................ 3 5.3 Public Space, Landscape & Built Form Framework ................................ 68 1.4 Composition of the SLAP ............................................................................... 3 5.4 Transportation ................................................................................................ 73 5.5 Infrastructure and Services Framework ..................................................... 85 2 CONTEXT ................................................................................................... 4 6 PRIORITY ACTION AREAS...................................................................... 95 2.1 Regional Context ............................................................................................ 4 2.2 Policy & Legislative Environment ................................................................. 5 6.1 Priority Areas .................................................................................................. 95 2.3 Key Policy Principles ..................................................................................... 16 7 THE IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH .................................................. 101 3 ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDY AREA ..................... 17 7.1 Implementation Focus of the SLAP .......................................................... 101 3.1 SWOT Analysis ................................................................................................ 17 7.2 Implementation Strategies ........................................................................ 101 3.2 Performance Dimensions ............................................................................ 17 7.3 Capital Investment Programme ............................................................... 108 3.3 Vitality ............................................................................................................. 19 8 MONITORING & EVALUATION ........................................................... 112 3.4 Sense ............................................................................................................... 23 3.5 Access ............................................................................................................ 27 8.1 Why Monitoring & Review is Required .................................................... 112 3.6 Fit ..................................................................................................................... 31 9 REFERENCES ......................................................................................... 115 3.7 Control ............................................................................................................ 35 3.8 Efficiency ........................................................................................................ 37 9.1 Reference Material..................................................................................... 115 3.9 Justice ............................................................................................................. 38 9.2 Personal Communication .......................................................................... 115 9.3 Datasets ........................................................................................................ 116 4 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ............................................................... 39 4.1 Role of the Area ............................................................................................ 39 4.2 Vision ............................................................................................................... 40 4.3 Development Principles .............................................................................. 41 4.4 Spatial Development Concepts ................................................................ 42 SCOTTSVILLE LAP l PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (20-03-20) iii 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND As such, this project is about assessing the current performance of Scottsville The Msunduzi Municipality (TMM) has, through the appointment of the Royal and identifying what interventions and investments are required in order to HaskoningDHV Project Team in association with The Markewicz Redman ensure that it responds appropriately and innovatively to the future Partnership, clearly indicated that it recognises that significant pressure and challenges of the Municipality as a regional “learning and knowledge change has occurred in and around the Scottsville area and accordingly, it centre” and “City of Choice”. The updating, review and enhancement of needs to review and amend its local area planning for the area. It has existing planning policy and tools for the area is necessary so as to protect its recognised in particular that due to the existence of a significant number of key resources, enhance its attributes, identify new trends and opportunities, schools, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban University of Technology and direct future public and private investment and effort of all stakeholders and Varsity College within the area, that there is an increasing demand for so as to optimise the opportunities embodied in the changes that are student and rental residential accommodation. occurring in the area and in the City. The location of the study area at the entrance to the City from the coastal The objectives of this project initiated by the Municipality are therefore to region and adjacent to a major development corridor of the province and review current, and strategically explore new, planning policy and the country (i.e. the N3) affords the TMM the opportunity to break from a development management strategies and measures so as to accommodate “business as usual” approach to urban development of an established, but the change forces that Scottsville is experiencing in an innovative, proactive changing low density suburb, and to realise some of its development goals and creative manner. related to City restructuring and densification. The following are some of the potentials which the Scottsville LAP project 1.2 STUDY AREA MUST respond to: The study area is 825ha in extent (Figure 1-1). It is a mixed-use education, retail, sports and recreation and residential neighbourhood located 2.5km to Review and translating the role of Scottsville in TMM spatial economy so the southeast of the Pietermaritzburg Central area. It is 3.5km ling (north to as to offer regional services and boost and support the brand of the “City south) and 2.5km wide (east to west). of Choice” through provision of additional new, attractive, sustainable and regionally competitive urban living environments. The Golden Horse Casino and Scottsville Racecourse are located in the Restructuring of the City, including the establishment of a positive northern section of the study area as well as a number of sports clubs and relationship between its urban and suburban (i.e. the study area being facilities located along the floodplain of the Msunduzi River on the northern one) components and to break down the fragmented and inequitable boundary. spatial structure and form of previous planning. Two large retail malls, with a third planned, are located along Alan Paton Enabling the establishment of a more responsive urban structure and Avenue together with