Volume II - The Northern Cape Provincial Spatial Development ...

WHAT IS THE PSDF ?
An over‐arching provincial policy and strategy that:
1. Provides direction and guidance pertaining to future land use in the province.
2. Reconciles and provides spatial context for provincial sectoral strategies.
3. Promotes a ‘developmental state’ in accordance with legislation policy.
4. Aligns environmental management in the Northern Cape with applicable international
agreements, protocols and conventions.
5. Gives effect to the overarching intent of the Northern Cape Provincial Growth and
Development Strategy (PGDS) to ‘build a prosperous, sustainable and growing provincial
economy to eradicate poverty and improves social development’.
PSDF embodies integrated land‐use planning, i.e
‘a participatory planning process aimed at integrating sectoral strategies, optimal allocation of
resources between sectors and geographic areas and across the population in a manner that
promotes sustainable growth, equity and the empowerment of the poor and marginalised’
Provincial Spatial Development Framework/Development & Resources Management Plan
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