{"id":160293,"date":"2017-02-27T08:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=160293"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:36:58","slug":"government-plans-to-start-reclaiming-land-back-from-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/160293\/government-plans-to-start-reclaiming-land-back-from-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plans to start reclaiming land back from the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Environmental Affairs, has published a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/www.gov.za\/files\/40638_r10693gon167.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">white paper<\/a><\/strong> which will allow government and private persons to begin the process of &#8220;reclaiming&#8221; land from the ocean for development.<\/p>\n<p>According to the definition provided by the Integrated Coastal Management Act, &#8220;reclamation&#8221; means the process of artificially creating new land within coastal waters, and includes the creation of an island or peninsula, but excludes beach replenishment by sand pumping for maintenance purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;draft reclamation of land from coastal waters regulations&#8221; details that interested parties need to provide a written motivation why the reclamation is necessary, how it will be used, possible alternative land that may be used, building\/infrastructure plans as well as how the project will be funded.<\/p>\n<p>These regulations are called the Reclamation of Land from Coastal Waters Regulations, 2017, and are currently open for public comment.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full regulations <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/www.gov.za\/files\/40638_r10693gon167.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/157565\/new-law-will-allow-government-to-take-and-redistribute-land-without-compensation\/\" target=\"_blank\">New proposed law will allow government to take and redistribute land without compensation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Environmental Affairs, has published a white paper which will allow government and private persons to begin the process of &#8220;reclaiming&#8221; land from the ocean for development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":160303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-160293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160293"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160519,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160293\/revisions\/160519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}