Phase 1: Bulk Preparation

Initiation and management


Output

Role-players understand their role at the start and in subsequent stages of the incremental settlement process.

Summary actions

The community or government (local or provincial) takes the initiative to get a managed land settlement process going.

This can either be demand driven, where communities call for land and housing, or supply driven where government recognises the need to make more land available.

Role-players clarify who will be the developer at different stages of the process, with different role-players possibly taking on this role at different stages.

Key decisions


 * Who will take the lead in instating the MLS project?


 * Who will act as the developer during different stages of the process?

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Bulk organising


Output The role-players are structured appropriately and have the necessary systems and capacity in place to be able to drive and participate in the MLS process.



Summary The community organises itself so that they have a recognised and legitimate representative structure to represent the community in the broad development process. The municipality organises itself so they are able to undertake MLS project with a lead department taking the lead and clear inter departmental coordination within the municipality and between levels of government. The community and the municipality organise themselves so that they are able to interact with each other through some form of steering committee.

Key decisions
 * How will the community and municipality be organised?
 * How will the role-players communicate and make decisions?

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Bulk land


Output

The land is bought by the developer or the land owner and the developer agrees that the land can be developed under certain conditions.



Summary

The developer negotiates with and enters into a sales agreement with land owner and/or enters into a land availability agreement that specifies the price to be paid within a specified time period, and the conditions that need to be fulfilled before the transfer can take place.

Key decisions
 * What land will be developed?


 * Who will pay for the purchase of the land if necessary?

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Bulk planning and environment


Output

The land to be developed is identified and fits within the municipalities IP and SDF, a neighbourhood plan is developed for the land and the necessary environmental approvals are obtained



Summary The developer identifies the land and make sure it is in the municipality's IDP and SDF The developer creates superblocks in which MLS can occur and also set aside land for other land uses like schools/ clinics, health centres, business, industry, urban agriculture, etc. The developer gets the necessary environmental approvals for the neighbourhood plan.

Key decisions
 * Is the land suitable for development?
 * What will the neighbourhood plans look like?
 * Who will pay for the feasibility /preliminary and other planning?

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Bulk services


Output

The bulk and connector services (for water, sewer, road, electricity etc.) are available to the site or at least a basic level of bulk services are available, with plans for these to be upgraded.



Summary actions

The developer ensures that bulk services are available or arranges for bulk services to be provided prior to the development of the land or in phases as part of the development of the land.

Key decisions


 * What level of bulk services will be acceptable before the land is developed?


 * Who will pay for the bulk services?

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Bulk access


Output

Road, rail and other public transport infrastructure links the settlement to the broader envioronment.



Summary actions

The municipality ensures that the road infrastructure is of standard that allows the area to be easily accesible to the broader environemnt, and public transport systems are put in place.

Key decisions


 * What is the form of public transport? (trains, busses, taxi, etc.)


 * Who provides the public tranport? (Municipality, natinal government, private sector, etc)

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Bulk allocation


Output

The role-players know who is allocated to the land or at least agree on what process will be followed to allocate people in need of land and houses to the land



Summary The role-players involved, determine in a participative and transparent manner, the steps or process that will be followed to reach agreement on how allocation will be undertaken and the criteria that will be used to make a decision on who will be allocated to the land.

Key decisions
 * How will people be allocated to the land?
 * Who will be allocated to the land?

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Bulk financing


Output

Finance is secured for provision of bulk products.



Summary actions

Appropriate role-players (developer, municipality, community, etc.) secure funding (state, private, community) for bulk products (land, planning, services, etc).

Key decisions
 * Who will secure finance?
 * What will the finances be needed for?
 * What type of finance will be secured?

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