VAAL River Regional Spatial Development Framework
The Vaal River Region fosters potential for building an economically improved, efficient, and a socially equitable area stretching over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West and Free State Provinces.
WHAT IS THE VAAL RIVER REGIONAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK?
The Vaal River Region fosters potential for building an economically improved, efficient, and a socially equitable area stretching over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West and Free State Provinces. The region is blessed with the Vaal River, Vaal Dam, petrochemical, iron and steel industries, world heritage sites, tertiary institutions, developed agricultural areas, and potential tourism sites. However, the development in the region does not commensurate with the potential.
Regional Spatial Economic Opportunities and Linkages
Regional Development Opportunities and Challenges
Regional Infrastructure and Settlement Hierarchy
Regional Institutional Alignment and Cooperation
Project Phases and Indicative Timelines
Latest News
The draft Vaal River RSDF is now available for public commenting.
Please go to the Consultation page to access the draft RSDF document and provide your feedback by 14 march 2024.
We look forward to receiving your feedback
Phase 1: Inception
The project inception phase lays the foundation for the project by identifying stakeholders, assigning roles and responsibilities to stakeholders, devising a communication plan, and preparing a detailed project workplan.
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Phase 2: Regional Situational Analysis and Regional Spatial Vision and Development Principles
In this phase, various national, provincial and local plans, proposals, policies and guidelines that influence the region’s spatial structure and development path are identified and analysed. This phase also includes the analysis of the region’s bio-physical, built environment, socioeconomic, economic profile, and regional governance conditions to inform the spatial development vision for the region.
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Phase 3: Draft Vaal River RSDF
This phase entails two key tasks – preparing draft spatial proposals to meet the development objectives and developing a framework to implement the VRSDF’s development proposals. The implementation framework translates the VRSDFdevelopment proposals into implementable projects and programmes and specifies the departments/ entities responsible for project implementation andthe financial implications for the implementation. The implementation framework also identifies the priority programmes and projects and defines the phases of project implementation.
Phase 4: Consultation on Draft Vaal River RSDF
The Draft Vaal River RSDF will be published to all stakeholders for consultation and comments will be invited from them.
Phase 5: Final Comprehensive Vaal River RSDF
This is the final phase of the project which involves deciding on the comments in the previous phase and amending the Draft Vaal River RSDF report accordingly. This phase also involves packaging the final reports, GIS shapefiles and databases and preparing an executive summary.
EVENTS
Implementation Partners
