A few details are enough to start. If your matter has a deadline; a notice served, a due diligence period closing, a hearing date, say so and we will work to it.
We reply within one working day. Ready to instruct, or need a quotation? The detailed enquiry form collects the property details we need to assess it.
One document usually tells us more than a page of description. If you have any of these, attach it — it is what makes the first reply useful, rather than a request for more information.
Buying land or a property
The erf number and the date your due diligence period closes. We will tell you what the property is permitted, and whether a full investigation fits the time you have.
Planning Due DiligencePlanning a development
The erf number and what you have in mind for it. We will tell you what the land carries now, and what an application would have to add.
Development FeasibilitySelling, and asked for plans
The erf number, and any approved plans you already hold. Where none can be found, we search what the municipality holds before anything is drawn.
Retrieval of Approved PlansHolding a contravention notice
The notice and the date it was served. The period is short, and what can still be done depends on how much of it is left.
Contravention NoticesPlans queried or refused
The query letter from building control. It names the department and the ground, which is usually enough to say whether the fix is a drawing or an application.
Building Plans SubmissionObjections or a refusal
The objections, or the decision and the date it was issued. Appeal periods run from the decision and are measured in days.
Tribunal RepresentationFour steps, and the first three cost nothing. No work begins, and nothing is billed, until a written scope and fee are agreed.
If the matter is urgent — a notice with days left on it, or a hearing already set — say so in the first line. Those we read the same working day.
- Address
- 35 Fricker Road, Illovo
Sandton 2196, Johannesburg - Getting here
- Illovo sits between Sandton and Rosebank, and Fricker Road runs off Oxford Road — a few minutes from either node.
- Parking and access
- Visitor parking on site, and a wheelchair-accessible entrance.
- Meetings
- By appointment. Where travelling is not convenient, we meet on Teams or Zoom instead.
- Office hours
- Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00. Closed weekends and public holidays.
Reviews are the one part of a professional reputation a firm cannot write for itself. If we have acted for you, a few lines on either platform help the next owner or developer decide — and tell us where we can do better.
Reviews appear beside our listing whenever someone searches for town planners in Sandton, which is where most people find us first.
Trustpilot
An independent platform, where every review is screened by automated checks before it publishes and the business cannot remove what it dislikes.
We ask every client at the end of a matter, not only the ones we expect to be kind, and we offer nothing in return for a review. We read all of them, and we reply.
Four routes that are not the planning desk. Choosing the right one gets you a faster answer.
Partnerships
We act as the external planning team for architects, engineers and developers — with Glensburg Studio giving you one dashboard for every client's application.
Start a conversationMedia
Written comment and interviews on planning and urban development, at the Illovo office or remotely. Mark the enquiry as a media request.
Cities InstituteCareers
We are always interested in planners, candidate planners and architectural staff. Send a CV and, where you have one, a portfolio.
careers@glensburg.co.zaExisting clients
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Call 010 442 5522, WhatsApp 079 375 2704, or send the form above.