Levine Sammuels Group (LSG)

LEVINE SAMMUELS CONSULTANCY

Services on Offer: Town Planning

1.  Land Use Management (Development Management)

These activities focus on statutory planning, property rights, and processing development applications through Municipal Planning Tribunals (MPTs) or authorized officials under SPLUMA.

• Rezoning (Amendment Schemes): Changing the zoning or landuse rights of a property (e.g., from Residential to Business) to permit a new development, fully aligned with the local Land Use Scheme (LUS).

• Township Establishment: The formal process of converting farmland or agricultural holdings into structured urban areas with defined erven (stands), public streets, and zoned community spaces.

• Removal of Restrictive Conditions: Applying to remove outdated, restrictive title deed conditions that block modern development or conflict with current zoning schemes.

• Consent Use (Temporary Use, Written Consent & Special Consent): Securing municipal permission for secondary uses allowed within an existing zoning category (e.g., a guest house on residential land, or a crèche).

• Subdivision and Consolidation: Splitting a single piece of land into smaller pockets, or merging multiple adjacent land parcels into a single consolidated property.

• Sectional Title Land-Use Approvals: Advising on and securing the necessary statutory spatial approvals required before opening a sectional title register.

• Site Development Plans (SDP) & Building
•  Plan Alignment: Preparing and submitting detailed spatial layouts that ensure architectural and engineering designs meet specific municipal zoning parameters.

• Contravention Mitigation & Regularisation: Assisting property owners in correcting unauthorized land uses through rectification applications to avoid municipal fines or legal action.

2. Spatial Planning (Forward Planning)

These activities focus on macrolevel planning, strategic frameworks, and policy formulation that guide longterm sustainable regional and local development.

• Spatial Development Frameworks (SDFs/M-SDF/R-SDF/L-SDF): Drafting, reviewing, or aligning local, precinct, or regional SDFs that serve as the spatial manifestation of an Integrated Development Plan (IDP).

• Precinct Plans and Nodal Development Frameworks: Designing detailed, microlevel spatial and infrastructure plans for specific growth points, economic nodes, or government precincts.

• Land Use Scheme (LUS) Formulation: Assisting municipalities in drafting, reviewing, or updating wall-to-wall Land Use Schemes to replace outdated town planning schemes, ensuring compliance with SPLUMA Chapter 5.

• Urban Renewal and Inner-City Regeneration Strategies: Developing strategic frameworks to revitalize declining urban centres, improve public spaces, and optimize infrastructure.

• Rural Development Frameworks & AgriHub Planning: Crafting specialized spatial plans for rural service centres, Farmer Support Production Units (FSPUs), and Thusong service centres to promote equitable spatial justice.

• Spatial GIS Analysis and Mapping: Providing datadriven geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, property overlay analyses, and spatial data audits for largescale infrastructure projects.

• Policy Feasibility & Due Diligence Assessments: Conducting comprehensive spatial policy audits to determine the development potential of land based on environmental frameworks, bioregional plans, and national/provincial legislation.
  

LEVINE SAMMUELS CONSULTANCY

Services on Offer: Environmental Management Services

1. Environmental Impact Management (Development Compliance)

These activities focus on project level statutory applications, environmental authorizations, and ensuring that specific infrastructure or land-use developments legally comply with NEMA regulations before breaking ground.

• Basic Assessment Reports (BAR): Conducting smaller scale environmental impact evaluations for activities triggered under Listing Notices 1 and 3 of the NEMA EIA Regulations (e.g., rural infrastructure, smaller agricultural hubs, or localized roads).

• Full Environmental Impact Assessments (Scoping & EIR): Managing comprehensive, multiphase impact assessments for largescale developments triggered under Listing Notice 2 (e.g., major township establishments, extensive government precincts, or heavy infrastructure projects).

• Environmental Management Programmes (EMPr): Drafting actionable operational frameworks that detail how construction and operational phases will mitigate, monitor, and manage environmental risks on site.

• Section 24G Rectification Applications: Assisting clients who have commenced a listed activity without prior authorization, navigating the legal, fine assessment, and regularisation processes to bring the development into compliance.

• Environmental Control Officer (ECO) Auditing: Providing independent onsite monitoring and compliance auditing during the construction phase to ensure adherence to the Environmental Authorization (EA) and EMPr conditions.

• Integrated Water Use License Applications (IWULA): Processing water use authorizations through the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) in terms of the National Water Act (NWA)—critical for projects near wetlands, rivers, or utilizing boreholes.

• Waste and Atmospheric Emission Licensing (WML & AEL): Securing statutory permits for waste management facilities or activities impacting air quality under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act (NEM:WA) and Air Quality Act (NEM:AQA).

• Public Participation Processes (PPP): Facilitating legally mandated stakeholder engagement, community workshops, and interested and affected party (I&AP) consultations required during compliance applications.

 2. Strategic Environmental Planning (Policy & Bioregional Frameworks)

These activities operate at a macrolevel, ensuring that long-term regional development plans, spatial frameworks, and municipal policies proactively integrate biodiversity and sustainability principles.

• Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs): Evaluating the environmental consequences of largescale public policies, plans, or programmes (such as Municipal IDPs or regional masterplans) before they are implemented.

• Environmental Management Frameworks (EMFs): Developing regionally specific spatial tools that map environmental sensitivity, guiding town planners and developers on where specific land uses are desirable or constrained.

• Bioregional Plans and Biodiversity Sector Plans: Formulating or aligning local spatial policies with provincial biodiversity conservation targets, ensuring Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs) and Ecological Support Areas (ESAs) are legally protected in spatial layouts.

• Environmental Due Diligence and Constraints Mapping: Conducting prepurchase spatial audits for developers to identify environmental fatal flaws, presence of protected species under NEM:BA, or proximity to watercourses using GIS overlay analysis.

• Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies: Developing forward looking policy frameworks to help municipalities or regions adapt infrastructure, agricultural assets, and human settlements to shifting climatic conditions.

• Alien Invasive Species Management Plans: Drafting statutory control and eradication plans for large land parcels, agricultural zones, or open space systems as required by the NEM:BA Alien and Invasive Species (AIS) Regulations.

• The Power of Integration: Environmental compliance is not a hurdle; it is a foundational layer of sustainable land development. By integrating NEMA frameworks directly with SPLUMA land use rights from day one, we eliminate project delays, avoid costly Section 24G penalties, and build resilient spaces.

LEVINE SAMMUELS PROCUREMENT

Service Offers

 1. General Office & Administrative Supplies

Standard day today items that government offices, schools, and clinics require continuously.

• Stationery & Office Essentials: Supplying corporate stationery packages, including printing paper, pens, notebooks, files, staplers, and general desk organizers.

• Ink & Toner Cartridge Supply: Providing OEM (original) or high quality compatible ink and toner cartridges for office printers, copiers, and fax machines.

• Office Furniture & Equipment: Delivering standard office furniture such as ergonomic chairs, desks, filing cabinets, whiteboards, and paper shredders.

• Corporate Branding & Promotional Material: Supplying branded corporate wear (tshirts, caps), banners, lanyards, diaries, and promotional gifts for government events and campaigns.

 2. Facilities, Cleaning & Safety Resources

Essential consumables and safety products needed to maintain government buildings, community centers, and public spaces.

•  Cleaning Consumables & Chemical Supply: Providing bulk cleaning materials, including detergents, disinfectants, mops, brooms, refuse bags, toilet paper, and paper towels.

•  Protective Clothing & PPE: Supplying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as overalls, safety boots, high visibility vests, gloves, and dust masks for municipal workers or field staff.

• First Aid & Basic Medical Consumables: Delivering standard first aid kits, refills, bandages, antiseptics, and nonprescriptive medical consumables for workplace safety compliance.

• Hardware & General Maintenance Tools: Supplying basic hardware items, hand tools, padlocks, lightbulbs, extension cords, and minor maintenance materials.

 3. Event Support, Catering & Consumable Logistics

Adhoc supply services tied to government meetings, community workshops, training sessions, and public outreach programs.

• Catering and Refreshment Services: Providing packed meals, buffet catering, platters, bottled water, and refreshments for internal government meetings, workshops, or community events.

• Bulk Grocery & Food Supply: Delivering dry food rations, perishable groceries, or bottled water pallets to schools, feeding schemes, or disaster relief initiatives.

• Event Equipment Hire and SetUp: Supplying and setting up temporary event infrastructure, including tents/marquees, plastic chairs, folding tables, sound systems, and mobile toilets.

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