Context - SG 4

The information in this section forms the context within which the longer term strategy for Goal 4 was formulated.

Housing:

In 2016 the majority of households (94.6%) lived in formal dwellings, compared to 90.9% in 2011. The remainder of households lived in traditional dwellings (0.9%), informal dwelling/shack (4.1%) and other dwelling types (0.4%). In 2017 there were 14 722 people on the housing waiting list by June 2019.

Urbanization:

Because of urbanization, with Cape Town as one of the three metropolitans experiencing the highest growth, the development potential of Swartland increased.  The Swartland population increased from 72 115 (2001) to 113 782 (2011) and 133 762 (2016) as new people urbanize and in-migrate.  As a high percentage of these people are dependent on state subsidized housing, the challenge is to create compact liveable urban areas.

Urban Edges:

The guide and control orderly development of the built environment are demarcated for five (5) and twenty (20) periods years in accordance with the planning principles as advocated in SPLUMA and LUPA.  The urban edges of the towns in the Swartland protects high value agricultural land and encourage compact urban form, spatial integration (Malmesbury and Abbotsdale) whilst providing for additional land to address the future urban growth.

Climate Change:

Climate change causes changes to precipitation, seasons, micro-climates and habitat stability and it is projected that the changes will impact negatively on the region and thus on the economy, natural resources and social sectors in the Swartland.

World nature conservation initiatives:

The proposed West Coast Conservation Corridor from the West Coast National Park on the northern boundary (Saldanha Municipality) along the Swartland coastline towards the south to the Blaauwberg Conservancy in the Cape Metropolitan area