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A. BACKGROUND
Development focus
Development feasibility and due diligence assessments • Planning permissions • Environmental approvals (including water & waste) • 'Land and environmental legal' address • Land survey data and registration • Engineering services agreements and certificates • Mining permissions, environmental approvals; and rights • Statutory compliance • Project management • National and International environmental law and compliance • IEMS (National and International Environmental Standards assessments, registration and compliance) • environmental auditing
In respect of:
Residential Estates • Eco-Estates • Lodges • Industrial Parks • Commercial stands • Office Parks • Commercial Centres • Formal Townships • Conservation & Protected Areas • Eco-tourism • Rural Development • Mining • Renewable Resources • Clean Energy • Earth and Environment • Marine and Coastal
In respect of:
Residential Estates • Eco-Estates • Lodges • Industrial Parks • Commercial stands • Office Parks • Commercial Centres • Formal Townships • Conservation & Protected Areas • Eco-tourism • Rural Development • Mining • Renewable Resources • Clean Energy • Earth and Environment • Marine and Coastal
Clients
Land-owners & Lessees • Developers • Private sector • Corporate sector • Industrial sector • Mining Industry • Renewable Resource exploration • Government • International Donor organisations • Financial institutions • Traditional Authorities • Tribal and Rural Community entities • NGOs • Conservation entities
Services
Development Feasibility assessments • Development facilitation; Development authorisations (approvals; permissions; licenses; certificates; rights; decisions) • Project administration • Institutional engagement and coordination • Community facilitation • Project co-ordination • Procedural management • Project implementation and compliance • Legal assessments (statutory; land and environment) • Legal advice and drafting • Environmental assessments; Integrated Environmental Management Systems and Environmental audits
B. DETAIL
Project feasibility assessment
Analysis and report on project feasibility including base-line review of:
- Statutory and regulatory planning controls, incl. Municipal IDP and SDF compliance
- Availability of services (electricity, water, sewage, waste, roads, storm-water)
- Engineering factors
- Geo-technical considerations
- Environmental issues
- Land legal restrictions
- Need and desirability
- Recommendations
Project facilitation
- In consultation with and upon instructions from client, identification and formal appointment of professional team
- Implementation and management of agreed professionals' scopes of work
- Liaison with professionals and third parties (incl. Government departments and stakeholders) in supporting capacity
- Monitoring of professionals' performance, incl. nature, timing and extent of attendances (including invoicing)
- Management of all prescribed regulatory processes and procedures
- Coordinating and vetting the compilation of all development tenders and applications
- Monitoring submissions and time-frames
- Reporting to client.
'Land legal' address and compliance
Identification, assessment and advice on:
- Enabling and restrictive legislation and policy
- Property title deeds
- Conditions of title
- Land claims and land tenure
- Conveyancing certificates
- Land use agreements, resolutions, and associated contracts (incl. drafting)
- The establishment and declaration of conservation and protected areas
- Drafting of community-based joint venture agreements for eco-tourism and lodge development purposes
Planning permissions
- GIS input and diagrammatic data
- Rezoning and sub-division applications
- Layout designs in compliance with planning controls, IDP and SDF regulations and policy
- Planning applications and supporting application documents (environmental, engineering, municipal resolutions, land legal)
- Application and representation to the competent authorities under the relevant planning legislation and policy
- Compilation and submission of relevant application documents
- Formal presentation to the decision-making authorities
Environmental approvals
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
- Mining permit and mining right applications
- Specialist environmental studies
- Environmental management plans
- Environmental compliance and control
- Environmental legal advice
- Water use licences and permissions
- Waste management compliance and certificates
- Marine and coastal management
- National and international environmental compliance and control
- Environmental auditing
Land audit/survey and associated diagrammatic representation
- Restrictive conditions of title, incl. servitudes and rights of way, GIS; mapping, survey, diagrams
- Framing of general plans
- Beaconing
- Submission, approval and registration of plans
Engineering services agreements and certificates
- Geotechnical reports
- Engineering reports
- Mining reports
- Engineering designs and drawings
- Services agreements
- Completion certificates
Rural Development
- Community and stakeholder facilitation
- Establishment and registration of Community Trusts and associated legal entities
- Drafting business plans and land use agreements
- Facilitating and drafting Government co-management agreements
- Facilitating and drafting joint venture agreements
- Drafting business plans, agreements and contracts
- Facilitating and implementing public, private partnerships
- Drafting lease agreements (state land)
- Securing development approvals
Mining Permits and Rights
- Assessing mining permit and mining right applications
- Preparing associated Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
- Drafting environmental management plans (EMP)
- Facilitation, submission and monitoring of mining applications through Government, stakeholders and third parties
- Advising, designing, registering and implementing national and international environmental management programmes and systems.