Gauteng · Local municipality
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
Planning applications and zoning guidance for properties around Johannesburg. Confirm the property’s jurisdiction and applicable scheme before choosing an application.
Planning applications
- Rezoning
- Consent use & special consent
- Subdivision
- Consolidation
- Township establishment
- Removal of restrictive title conditions
- Building-line relaxations & departures
- Site development plans
- Agricultural-land subdivision
- Excision of agricultural holdings
- Development feasibility & site investigations
- Contravention & regularisation
- Zoning certificates
- Municipal compliance & SPLUMA certificates
- Purchase or lease of municipal land
- Municipal planning tribunal representation
- Road closures & gated communities
- Renewable-energy land-use planning
- Combined rezoning & subdivision
- Combined subdivision & consolidation
- Amendment or cancellation of approved subdivision plans
- Extension of approval validity
- Planning appeals
- Scheme & spatial framework amendments
Zoning information
These are broad zoning families, not a substitute for the municipality’s legal zone names or a property’s zoning certificate.
Available municipal sources
- City of Johannesburg Land Use Scheme, 2018 (as amended 2025)
City of Johannesburg · Document date: 2026-10-21
Last recorded check: 2026-10-21. Check for amendments.
- City of Johannesburg Municipal Planning By-law (reviewed, promulgated 3 April 2024)
City of Johannesburg · Document date: 2026-10-21
Last recorded check: 2026-10-21. Check for amendments.
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