SHiFT

This document consists of five parts:

PART 1: Sets out the background to, need for and objectives of the NSDP. It outlines the proposed content, role and status of a NSDP and indicates constraints under which the NSDP was produced.

PART 2: Provides an overview as a narrative of the changing spatial economy and its impact on the Government’s commitment to social reconstruction, sustainable economic growth and social and environmental justice.

PART 3: Interprets the spatial narrative to indicate the hard choices that government will face in reconciling its many objectives. Government’s response to the spatial trends identified in Part 2 will be described in terms of their impact on infrastructure investment and development spending.

PART 4: Describes the procedures required to operationalise the Guidelines. This procedure seeks to bring together planning and policy co-ordination in the three spheres of government to identify policies and programmes that will ensure that people in different localities will have greater possibilities of achieving their potential.

PART 5: Compares the NSDP to other recent national and transnational spatial planning exercises and indicates where the NSDP is in line with or ahead of international best practice.

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