2013_14 IDP Review.pdf - KZN Development Planning

enhancing environments with maximum possibilities for pedestrianmovement and transit via safe and efficient public transport in caseswhere motorised means of movement is imperative.Ensure that low-income housing is provided in close proximity to areas ofopportunity.Integrate previously excluded groups into urban areas and the benefits itoffers, and to ensure the development of more integrated, functional andenvironmentally sustainable human settlements, towns and cities. Thelatter includes densification.Encourage Social (Medium-Density) Housing.Multi-purpose cluster concept will be applied to incorporate the provisionof primary municipal facilities, such as parks, playgrounds, sports fields,crèches, community halls, taxi ranks, satellite police stations, municipalclinics and informal trading facilities.Enhancing settlement design by including design professionals atplanning and project design stages, and developing design guidelines.Social housing must be understood to accommodate a range of housingproduct designs to meet spatial and affordability requirements.The residential settlement areas in Umzinyathi require its own particular interventions over and above the standard principles as set outabove. The following indicates the development principles applicable to them.Development and investment in these service centres should focus oncreating sustainable human settlements. 5 The general qualities that mustbe achieved are:The area must be attractive, safe and convenient for people to live in.Residents must have access to residential amenities such as localbusinesses, transport facilities and social and community facilities.The area should have a functional local economy.Draft 2013/2014 IDP Review Page 219Prepared by Umzinyathi District Municipality22 March 2013