Date : 3/18/2003
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Overview of Contents
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.