TY - JOUR AU - de Visser, Jaap AU - Poswa, Xavia Siyabonga PY - 2019/03/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Municipal Law Making under SPLUMA: A Survey of Fifteen "First Generation" Municipal Planning By-Laws JF - Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal JA - PER VL - 22 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.17159/1727-3781/2019/v22i0a4658 UR - https://perjournal.co.za/article/view/4658 SP - 1-28 AB - <p>The legal framework for spatial planning and land use management changed with the introduction of the new <em>Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act</em> 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA). SPLUMA facilitates the shift of power over critical areas of land use management from provincial governments to local governments, which results from the <em>Constitution</em> allocating "municipal planning" to municipalities. With this comes a responsibility for municipalities to adopt municipal planning by-laws. This article focuses on four of the many challenges SPLUMA needed to address namely (1) the division of responsibilities between national, provincial and local government, (2) the interrelationship between plans and rights, (3) planning and informality and (4) making government cohere. The article introduces these four challenges and examines how SPLUMA seeks to address them. In particular, it conducts a preliminary assessment of fifteen "first generation" municipal planning by-laws to assess how they address the four themes in SPLUMA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C4ZqO54AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/bontle-1813/Google_Scholar71.png"></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=761110ea-97d6-4da4-975b-2951486096bc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/bontle-1813/SO24.png"></a></p> ER -