Sectional Title
Surveys

Changes to the zoning scheme legislation in the Buffalo City Municipal area have now made it possible for granny flats or second dwelling units to be disposed of separately by means of sectional title. In the traditional form of separate title land tenure property ownership is defined by surveyed boundaries represented on a surveyors diagram or general plan with the beacons placed on site to demarcate the boundary terminals. Sectional title is the form of tenure most commonly used to grant ownership to units in apartment blocks and to units in housing schemes which have communal facilities.

A feature of sectional title is that the unit boundary is defined by the median line of the outside wall of the unit and ownership of gardens, braai areas and carports are assigned to the unit as exclusive use areas and all other land is assigned as common property. It is the land surveyors responsibility to ensure that the development complies with all statutory legislation and the zoning scheme regulations and for this reason the requirements would vary for different parts of the country as the zoning scheme regulations of the various municipal areas are not the same.