Catalytic programme & resource planning
The Built Environment Value Chain starts with a process of spatial targeting flowing from the Metros’ spatial planning. Spatially targeted areas are prioritised and plans developed for the priority precincts within these prioritised areas. A catalytic urban development programme is developed out of this precinct plan, and this programme and the projects within it undergo preparation towards implementation.
Catalytic urban development programmes; for the purposes of the BEPP’s, are specifically defined as programmes that:
- Enable integration, that is, mixed and intensified land uses where the residential land use caters for people across various income bands and at increased densities that better support the viability of public transport systems;
- Are game changers in that the nature and scope of the projects are likely to have significant impact on spatial form and unlock economic activity.
- Involve major infrastructure investment;
- Require a blend of finance where a mix of public funds is able to leverage private sector investment as well as unlock household investment;
- Require specific skills across a number of professions and have multiple stakeholders
Catalytic development programmes are an ensemble of all related projects (public: municipal, public: non-municipal and private [PPPs, SPVs, and pure private development projects) needing to be implemented within a priority precinct of a specific spatial targeted area and from which the total intergovernmental project pipeline is updated for all public sector projects in the programme. At the same time, it must be demonstrated how private sector and household investment is leveraged within the programme. The catalytic urban development programme preparation process is therefore aimed at delivering a series of built environment projects to be implemented by either national, provincial, municipal or private sector which will progressively put cities on the path to achieving compact cities and transformed urban spaces.
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