Environmental and Land Planning provides land planning, biodiversity, coastal and pollution and waste management services. It supports 24 local municipalities, 5 district municipalities and 1 metropolitan municipality. It also provides functional support to the Department's Chief Directorates.
Environmental and Land Planning are responsible for the following:
- The implementation of an integrated restructuring process, including the organisational establishment
- Ensuring the execution of land and spatial planning on provincial and regional level
- Initiating and participing in the formulation of legislation, regulations, policies and other initiatives relating to land planning matters
- Capacitating organs of state and other stakeholders and render relevant support regarding planning and environmental matters
- Promoting biodiversity management and support and monitor public entities and relevant statutory commit- committees tees
- Supporting the Western Cape Nature Conservation Board
- Supporting the Environmental Commissioner
- Executing coastal management
- Implementing and promoting integrated pollution and waste management
- Rendering functional support to the Department
The content on this page was last updated on 20 August 2013