Usually, the building line area (also referred to as a building constraint location) might be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the areas 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 area of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from calculating such location within the confines of the outer 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 ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, typically expressed as a variety of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m two will translate into a reliable 2 residence systems that might be put up 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 regulating authority of the preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to obtain the authorisation of the pertinent ecological authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be controlled in regards to the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that might be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor area that may be put 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 applied to a site of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m TWO.

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing numerous erven and streets or partitioned 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 location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically omit non-leasable areas of the building (communal passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use scheme, it is normally only relevant to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be offered 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 operative "service plan" of the municipality showing how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure illustrates the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan may include a reference to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (usually along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roadways within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might describe the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), additionally 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 process of taking care of the modification of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land use rights and advancement limitations relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

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

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

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

R.O.W - this is a bondage and refers to a "right of method". 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 principle of taking previous speculative learning into account, regardless of that a person might not hold a recognized tertiary certification 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 City Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a town (its future desired state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of yokes and associated functions. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated procedure of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into city land (an area or suburban area) which may consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the township will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to manage and manage using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner component of the intersection in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, focused on working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway 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, electricity cables, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are protected by recommendation to a bondage diagram (portraying the area so affected). Typically, yoke areas might not be intruded upon by building structures and the details of such servitudes are typically explained in a notarial deed of servitude signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, representing the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a municipality or a subdivided location where multiple 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 is subject to a particular set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will generally confirm the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to advancement constraints such as height limitations, coverage limitations, flooring location limitations, parking requirements and so on.