{"id":568,"date":"2016-05-27T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=568"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:59:24","slug":"total-or-partial-demolition-of-illegal-construction-sca-causes-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/total-or-partial-demolition-of-illegal-construction-sca-causes-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Law Update | Issue 2 &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TOTAL OR PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION: SCA CAUSES CONFUSION<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>BSB International Link CC v Readam South Africa (Pty) Limited<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Recently in Lester v Ndlambe Municipality and another, the Supreme Court of Appeal held that a court\u00a0hearing an application in terms of section 21 of the Building Regulations and Building Standards Act had\u00a0no discretion but to order demolition of a building constructed without the required building approval,\u00a0ie it could not order partial demolition but was compelled to order total demolition. This was so, the\u00a0court emphasized, because the law could not and did not countenance an ongoing illegality which was\u00a0also a criminal offence, and to do so would subvert the doctrine of legality and undermine the rule of\u00a0law. In April 2016, however, the SCA seemed to say something different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stbb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=31084394a308554a6798b4ec1&amp;id=f4cd17545b&amp;e=a7aac76cb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>ZONING: DOES &#8216;INFORMAL HOUSING&#8217; CONSTITUTE &#8216;DWELLING HOUSES&#8217;?<\/h2>\n<h3>Educated Risk Investments 165 (Pty) Ltd v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (308\/2015) [2016] ZASCA 67 (20 May 2016)<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"im\">The interests of a township developer and those of a local authority who uses a neighbouring (undeveloped) township for informal settlements, can be at odds, specifically in a society harshly divided along income lines. The Supreme Court of Appeal was asked to determine whether the informal housing constituted \u2018dwelling houses\u2019 as was prescribed by the relevant zoning scheme. It was also asked to address the question whether the local authority was obliged to comply with all the conditions of approval of the township or the sub-divisional conditions before permitting people to live there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stbb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=31084394a308554a6798b4ec1&amp;id=853401ff0c&amp;e=a7aac76cb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">READ THE JUDGMENT<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stbb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=31084394a308554a6798b4ec1&amp;id=95a2d7c8a1&amp;e=a7aac76cb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOTAL OR PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION: SCA CAUSES CONFUSION BSB International Link CC v Readam South Africa (Pty) Limited Recently in Lester v Ndlambe Municipality and another, the Supreme Court of Appeal held that a court\u00a0hearing an application in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Development Law Update | Issue 2 - 2016 - STBB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/total-or-partial-demolition-of-illegal-construction-sca-causes-confusion\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maryna Botha\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/total-or-partial-demolition-of-illegal-construction-sca-causes-confusion\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/total-or-partial-demolition-of-illegal-construction-sca-causes-confusion\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maryna Botha\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/623606b2022560795816523a4fd0bfec\"},\"headline\":\"Development Law Update | Issue 2 &#8211; 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