Environmental Impact Assessments
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WHAT DOES THE DEPARTMENT DO?

The Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning is focussed on:

• sustainable environmental management and integrated development planning,
• the development of integrated, sustainable human settlements, and
• ensuring equal access and sustainable use of the province's natural resources, including energy.

The Department specifically focuses on:

• Climate Change Response
• Integrated Land Management
• Environmental Planning
• Biodiversity Management
• Coastal Management
• Provincial and Regional Planning, Strategies and Policies
• Pollution and Waste Management
• Law Enforcement

KEY SERVICES

• Environmental Impact Assessments
• Mapping Services
• Development Applications
• Providing Spatial, Demographic, Social and Economic Data

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

• Annual Performance Plan 2007/2008
• Aquaculture Guidelines in the Western Cape
• 2010 Football World Cup Strategic Plan for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape and the City of Cape Town
• Notice of Availability: Environmental Scoping Report for a Proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Demonstration Power Plant
• CapeNature Annual Report 2007
• Decisions on Appeals: Green Point Common Development
• Best Mangement Principles for Aquaculture Practises
• Sustainability Atlas
• Annual Performance Plan 2006/2007
• Western Cape Provincial Spatial Development Framework - Final
• State of the Environment Report (2005)
• "ORV Regulations"
• Land Use Planning Ordinance, 1985 (Ordinance 15 of 1985)
• Growth Potential of Towns in the Western Cape (2004)
• Integrated Waste Pollutant Management System
• Effects of Climate Change in the Western Cape