Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (Act No. 16 of 2013)Chapter 4 : Spatial Development FrameworksPart D : Preparation and content of regional spatial development frameworks18. Regional spatial development framework |
| (1) | The Minister, after consultation with the Premier and the Municipal Council responsible for a geographic area, may by notice in the Gazette publish a regional spatial development framework to guide spatial planning, land development and land use management in any region of the Republic. |
| (2) | The Minister must review the regional spatial development framework at least once every five years from the date of its last publication or amendment and may, after consultation with the Premier and the Municipal Council responsible for a geographic area, propose amendments to the regional spatial development framework. |
| (3) | The Minister, after consultation with the Premier and the Municipal Council responsible for a geographic area, may declare any geographic area of the Republic to be a region for the purpose of this section when necessary to give effect to national land use policies or priorities in any specific geographic area of the Republic in addition to the spatial development framework applicable to such area. |
| (4) | Before determining the regional spatial development framework contemplated in subsection (1) and any proposed amendments to the regional spatial development framework contemplated in subsection (2), the Minister must— |
| (a) | give notice of the proposed regional spatial development framework in the Gazette and the media; |
| (b) | invite the public to submit written representations in respect of the proposed regional spatial development framework to the Minister within 60 days after the publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (a); and |
| (c) | consider all representations received in respect of the proposed regional spatial development framework. |