Every project below records the same things: the application, the municipality that decided it, the sector, the work we did and the outcome with its date. They are written to one shape so you can compare them, and so you can find the one closest to your own property.
The part worth reading is what the matter turned on. Almost every application is decided by a single thing; parking, a title condition, bulk services, a neighbour, a scheme that had changed since the rights were granted, and that is the sentence each entry is built around. It is also the sentence a firm can only write about work it actually did.
Filter by application below, or use the links at the foot of the page to find work in your municipality or your sector.
What every entry records
- Application
- The route taken, and the rights sought
- Municipality
- And the by-law it was decided under
- Location
- The suburb, or the area where a client is not named
- Scope
- What we did, and which specialists were engaged
- Outcome
- Approved, refused, withdrawn or lodged — with the date
Most planning work never appears on a page like this. Some clients will not be named, a developer assembling land, an owner resolving a contravention, an institution that would rather its plans stayed private, and where permission is not given, an entry either shows the suburb without the owner, or does not run at all.
Nor is every matter an approval. Applications are refused, withdrawn after an assessment shows they will not succeed, or settled at the Tribunal on conditions nobody wanted. We publish some of those too, because a portfolio of nothing but approvals tells you only which matters a firm chose to show.
If you want more than this page
References
We will put you in touch with clients who have agreed to speak, in the kind of matter you are bringing.
The documents
In a consultation we can show you what a motivation, a site development plan or a Tribunal bundle actually looks like — where we have permission, or with the details removed.
The ones that went badly
Ask about the matters that did not go our way. It is usually a more useful conversation than the ones that did.
The grid above filters by application. If you would rather start from where your property is, or from what you are building, these are the pages behind each, what the application involves, which by-law decides it, and what usually decides the outcome.
By application
By municipality
By sector
Nothing here quite like your property? That is usual — most matters are unlike the last one. The first consultation is free, and it starts with what your land permits now.
What people ask about the work shown here and about the work that is not.
Send the erf number and what you want to do with the property.
Tell us the erf number and what you want to do with the property. The first consultation is free, we will tell you what the land permits, which application it needs, and what a matter like yours usually turns on.
35 Fricker Road, Illovo, Sandton · Planning matters across eight municipalities