More time to nominate representatives passionate about local neighbourhood planning
21 September 2025
The City has extended the deadline for the nomination of representatives to serve on the Spatial Planning Collectives at the 20 subcouncils across Cape Town. This is the ideal opportunity for residents’ associations, stakeholders, and organisations with an interest in spatial planning to get involved and collaborate with the City on spatial planning policies.
Representatives will serve on the Spatial Planning Collectives, a platform for regular engagement with residents about spatial policies and planning processes in their neighbourhoods.
‘Nearly every week I get emails or phone calls from residents about some development happening in their neighbourhood, or a land use that concerns them. Residents are directly affected by land use, and the nature, form and location of developments in their areas, but few people understand how the City’s spatial policies determine what our suburbs will look and feel like in future.
‘Most people also don’t know how to influence the policies, or make suggestions and collaborate with us. The spatial policies also impact property owners and developers as the plans inform and guide the City’s decisions when we assess development and land use applications. I’m urging residents and stakeholders to make use of this opportunity to get involved, and work with us,’ said the City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Alderman Eddie Andrews.
The Spatial Planning Collectives is a new programme designed to educate, empower and engage community stakeholders at the 20 subcouncils across Cape Town about the City’s spatial policies such as the Municipal Spatial Development Framework; District Spatial Development Frameworks (DSDFs) and Local Spatial Development Frameworks (LSDFs), and planning processes.
• The first step is the call on residents, residents’ associations, stakeholders and groups with a direct interest in spatial policy to nominate representatives to serve on the Spatial Planning Collective at their local Subcouncil.
• The closing date for submissions has been extended and residents are encouraged to nominate their representatives by the end of October 2025
The aim is to:
• Establish a dedicated platform for each subcouncil to meet with stakeholders about spatial planning and development related matters in their areas
• Facilitate proactive and regular engagement and communication between the Urban Planning and Design Department and community representatives
• Inform and educate representatives so that they can have a better understanding of spatial planning and how these policies impact their neighbourhoods
• Provide training for community representatives about the City’s spatial planning processes, how to participate and comment on these processes, how to get involved with City projects, budgeting processes, environmental planning, housing development, resilience and climate change, transport, land use processes and local economic development
Submit nominations:
• Online at www.capetown.gov.za/planningcollective
• At subcouncil offices for hard copy documents
• For queries, email: spatialplanning.collective@capetown.gov.za or phone 0860 103 089 and request a call back about the Spatial Planning Collectives
The Urban Planning and Design Department will assess the nominations and finalise the list of participants to serve in the collectives.
Published by:
City of Cape Town, Media Office
