Examples of Development Facilitation Act in a sentence
Less formal settlement or township approved in terms of the Less Formal Township Establishment Act Part 3: Development Facilitation Act 4.
The engineering service agreement in terms of Section 40 of the Development Facilitation Act (DFA) shall be regarded as an engineering service agreement in terms of Chapter V of the Town-Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986).
The Act also repealed some other planning laws which are in conflict with SPLUMA, such as the Development Facilitation Act, 1995, but not those Ordinances of which the competency lies with provincial governments, for example Ordinance 15 of 1986.
A number of pieces of legislation govern development and spatial planning at national, provincial and local levels, governed by principles set out in the Development Facilitation Act (Act 67 of 1995).
The national and provincial priorities; policies and strategies of importance include amongst others:• Green Paper on National Strategic Planning of 2009.• Government Programme of Action.• Development Facilitation Act of 1995.• Provincial Growth and Development Strategy (GGDS).• National and Provincial spatial development perspectives.• Relevant sector plans such as transportation; legislation and policy.• National Key Performance Indicators (NKPIs)• The National and Provincial Priority Outcome.
While the Development Facilitation Act represents a significant attempt at addressing these unacceptable settlement patterns, this piece of legislation did not repeal the pre-1994 pieces of legislation on planning.
Examples include consideration of alternative land acquisition strategies and land tenure models, the failure of ‘willing buyer, willing seller’, reviewing beneficiary eligibility and landholding entities, the shift from the Development Facilitation Act to SPLUMA, and the introduction of a national urban policy.
Second, a Development Facilitation Application (DFA) needed to be written to the Gauteng Development Tribunal to obtain planning permission, in terms of the Development Facilitation Act (1995) (See Annex A).
The Development Facilitation Act (DFA) has formalised the restructuring of urban settlements and planning in South Africa.
Continuous negotiations with potential land sellers in areas of strategic importance are one of the strategies that the Municipality uses.To deal with the challenge of fragmented settlement pattern and sprawl the Municipality and the Local Government and Housing Department currently implement township establishment projects following the principles of the Development Facilitation Act and lately the SPLUMA.