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Planning for the next phase of the redevelopment of District Six is under way, with preliminary plans showing more than 100 units will be built along Hanover Street.

The Stellenbosch Municipality intends to adopt a Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) for the Adam Tas Corridor (ATC) precinct as the town’s emerging urban transformation district.

The City of Cape Town is piloting a new approach in which communities can map community planning initiatives within their area.

The crisis committee from the Amadiba coast in the Eastern Cape’s Mbizana municipality faced public order police stun grenades and intimidation as they fought a battle against the proposed development of their land.

In the eyes of the NGO Ndifuna Ukwazi, suburbs such as Woodstock, Salt River, Maitland and Brooklyn do not form part of the central Cape Town area.   For them, the N1 and M3 are impenetrable barriers, Voortrekker and Koeberg Roads do not exist, and building social housing near to the Cape Town CBD, where property prices and available land make this viable, somehow doesn’t facilitate access to the inner city.   Maverick Citizen, 15 March 2021).  To sustain this untruth, Ndifuna Ukwazi ha...