Tshwane Town Planning Scheme 2008

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1. Hi Kea, Get some proper plans done and submit to council and just inform them that the foundations are “As built”

2. Hi ive started 2 back rooms foundation at the back of my house without informing municipality and its a huge free space where theres no any water or electricity pipe to disturb does it still approval from councilor and how can i inform them that ive made foundation and help approve it,  your help will be highly appreciated

3. Hi Yunus, The only municipality that I know of that has online tracking of plan approval is in the Western Cape. In Joburg you will have to phone or go in personally. Maybe this will come in line with the Cape with the DA now in charge.

4. Hi Penny,

   We are a practice based in South of Joburg.
   I need to follow the progress of a submitted plan on line….. if you have such a facility or link!! The Plan was submitted on 23/03/2016.The Stand is in Eldoraigne…. stand 4560 x67 (480m2)
   In order save me a trip to Pretoria, may I please ask you to direct me to the correct channels on line to check on the progress of the submitted plan….
   Thanking you in advance.
   Yunus Mayet

5. What your neighbour has done is totally illegal. Please read this article for further information and/or obtain a copy of SANS 10400-R, Stormwater Disposal from the SABS. It’s only about eight pages long.

6. Hi Penny,i live in one of a leafy suburbs in Pretoria, when I purchased the house, found that my back-opposite neighbor has dig a hole on a concrete slabs wall fence to let the storm water into my yard and that has let one of my big tree in the yard to fall and the hole passage towards the street.I have tried to close the hole on the wall and I later find out that he opened it again.What must I do ?

7. Only from the local authority

8. Hi Penny,
   I would like to run a small business from my home in Claremont Pretoria. Where can I find out if my house is zoned for business as the previous tenants ran a business from here.
   Thank you,
   Johan

9. Yes Lassie you do need plans … and if your title deed restricts you to one dwelling you won’t be allowed to build a flat. It isn’t floor area that determines this, and I doubt that simply having a second oven would constitute a second dwelling. But clearly if there is a kitchen, bathroom and living room/bedroom etc – and a separate entrance it would become a second dwelling. Allowable floor area is determined by the Council zoning scheme.

10. Hi Penny, thank you for a remarkable website. I live in the Tshwane area in a house that does have existing and legit building plans. I would like to convert the servant quaters to a single-room flat with one bathroom and small kitchen. The floor area will not be extended, only some inside walls will be changed and a window enlarged.
    1. Do I need new building plans for this?
    2. My title deed restrict my property to only one dwelling. What factors of my new flat will constitute me to apply for a second dwelling for my property? Some people say it is the moment you add a kitchen, others say the floor area determines it, while others mentioned that it is when you ad an oven? I cannot get a concrete rule for this in the Tshwane town planning scheme either.

    Thanks
    Lassie

11. Employ a competent person to draw plans for you. They will submit them to council and follow through the process. Then find a registered builder to do the job.

12. Basically you need an agrement certificate. This is covered in Part A of the regulation:
    Agrément certificate
    certificate that confirms fitness-for-purpose of a non-standardised product, material or component or the acceptability of the related non-standardised design and the conditions pertaining thereto (or both) issued by the Board of Agrément South Africa (which falls under the Department of Public Works)

13. You have a problem and it isn’t just rezoning. First and foremost you are going to have to have as-built plans drawn up and hope that the council will pass them.

14. Report your neighbour to the council and to the police.

15. I leave in Pretoria and my neighbour started building outside rooms last year. She has no plans and the property is not zoned for business. She just recently started building more rooms. Her tenants through bottles of beer in front of my yard. This will definitely reduce the value of my house. How do I stop all this.

16. Hi Penny

    i have already build 3 rooms in my yard in my township to get extra imcome without notifying the municipality how do i go about by asking the mucipality to rezone my ERF and get the approval from them

17. Helo n thanks for the great answers. I want some company to build me a container home in pretoria including some more container lodges and houses in mpumalanga. What’s paperwork is needed. Is it the company building for me or me who can find all the paperwork needed. Thanks

18. I live in Centurion, in a full title house (not an estate) and want to extend two rooms with a meter outwards (essentially the outside walls and obviously the foundation), what’s the typical process I should follow.

    Thanks in advance.

19. Only the local authority can answer this question.

20. There are none – though there may be SANS. Contact the SABS for further info if you want standards regarding shade netting. Most structures built using it are classified as minor building work.

21. How about contacting the local authority. This has nothing to do with the NBR. Good luck with your venture

22. HI,
    Where do i get the regulations concerning building structures using net shading?

23. We believe that the council should be held responsible. Since you don’t have plans, if the buyers want plans, add the cost to the price of the house, or share it by agreement.