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I had a farm in Africa... It was Africa distilled... The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility... You woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
Karen Blixen "Out of Africa"
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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
Planning and development in South Africa is gradually becoming more environmentally sensitive and appropriate, guided by legislation that requires the undertaking of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for all new developments and certain activities. This legislation aims to protect our precious natural resources, including endangered and threatened ecosystems, faunal and floral species, wetlands and water resources and valuable agricultural soils. It aims to ensure development is socially, environmentally and economically sustainable and contributes to a quality of life for all people in South Africa.
In an endeavour to contribute to the protection of South Africa's unique environmental attributes, the company specialises in independent Environmental Impact Assessments for new developments and activities, as now required by law.
Seaton Thomson and Associates, together with a team of accredited specialists in their various fields, prepare and submit EIAs for consideration by the relevant environmental authorities, in order to obtain approval for such development to proceed. The company specialises in EIAs for all types of developments, including new residential, commercial and industrial townships, infrastructural services, game lodges and resorts, and recreation facilities.
Seaton Thomson and Associates has been responsible for numerous EIA applications and has achieved considerable success in contributing to more environmentally sensitive and appropriate developments in the unique South African landscape.
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
- HELDERFONTEIN ESTATE: RIVERSIDE VIEW TOWNSHIP:
A full Environmental Impact Assessment of a 118ha development for a residential golf course estate. Specialist ecological surveys and Red Data species investigations were considered critical
- STOCKS AND STOCKS PROPERTIES (PTY) LTD: BELLS GOLFING ACADEMY:
Preparation and approval of a Scoping Report in terms of Environment Conservation Act, for a proposed golf driving range, putting and chipping greens in the 1:50 year floodline of the Hennops River, Centurion.
- GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF LAND AFFAIRS: SPHINX PROJECT:
Environmental Impact Assessment for an agricultural village for a beneficiary community of 120 households in the Pienaars River District, to identify sensitivity.
- CENTURY PROJECTS: FIVE STAR GUEST LODGE DEVELOPMENT: MPUMALANGA(2003):
Preparation & approval of a Scoping Report in terms of Environmental Conservation Act, for the development of a luxury guest resort based on the Drakensberg escarpment in Graskop, Mpumalanga. Sensitive ecology and presence of the endangered Blue Swallow are significant components of the site.
- GAUTENG PROVINCIAL HOUSING BOARD: ETHEMBALETHU ECO-VILLAGE (2004):
Preparation & approval of a Scoping Report in terms of Environmental Conservation Act,
for the development of a low income government funded housing development in the Muldersdrift area, bordering the World Heritage Site.
Specialist ecological and hydrological studies were undertaken.
- CENTURY PROJECTS: EIA FOR THE HONEYGUIDE CONCESSION AREA IN MANYALETI GAME RESERVE (2003):
Preparation & approval of a Scoping Report in terms of Environmental Conservation Act, for the construction and upgrading of a luxury safari camp based in the Provincial Manyaleti Game Reserve, Mpumalanga.
- WILDERNESS SAFARIS: LUXURY SAFARI CAMP: MAKULEKE CONTRACTUAL PARK: KRUGER NATIONAL PARK (2003):
Application to DEAT for environmental authorisation for two luxury safari camps in the Makuleke area of Kruger National Park. The 24 000ha area was the subject of a successful land claim through the Land Claims Commission.
- WILD RIVER LODGE: CORPORATE HOUSING ON THE FARM JABULANI (2005):
Environmental application to the KZN Department of Environmental Affairs for the proposed development of ±60 corporate units and a luxury lodge on a 750ha site in the northern Drakensberg area.
- TINTSWALO LODGES: KOEEL BAY GUEST LODGE (2005):
Environmental application to DEAT & the Western Cape Dept of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning for the proposed development of a luxury lodge on the SANParks Concession site in Koeel Bay, south of Hout Bay, Cape Town.
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