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I am also an author, and have published several books electronically. I can help you with plans for new work, as well as building plans for building work that might have been done without approved plans.Call me on 082 331 8656 for a free quotation in the Tshwane area. I have been working in the Tshwane area since 2002. I also do building plans for other work such as planning, site developement plans, fire planning, and so on. I am registered with SACAP (South African Council for Architectural Professionals) and I'm a member of SAIAT. I can help you with drawing up of building plans for existing buildings and new buildings. On the Internet I also maintain a forum for the sharing of home improvement ideas called SA Home Talk. You can find out more about these books at leondekock.com.
I do Building Plans in the Pretoria and Centurion area, Tshwane municipalities.

This forum is a platform for South African home owners to share ideas, tips and knowledge on how to make our homes better places to live in. If you have an idea to share with other people, this is the place to do it. General Discussion Feel free to talk about anything and everything home related in this board. Child Boards The Cook Book Share your favourite recipes. Aspirin is the remedy for fungal plant problems, Black spot, powdery mildew, and rust are a terrible trio of fungi, which can attack and destroy your plants. Most yards in South Africa have four building lines. The side boundaries will typically have a building line of two meters, meaning that you are not supposed to build within two meters of your side boundary. The rear boundary is often also two meters, although it can be more. The street boundary is usually more, three meters for a house and five meters for a garage. The first type of building line is described in a document called a zoning certificate (obtainable from your local council). These are usually the two, three, and five meter building lines described above. The good news is that many councils will relax these building lines, allowing home owners to build over the lines, sometimes right up to the boundary. There is, however, another type of building line which causes much bigger problems. These are usually street building lines, and they can be anything from nine meters to fifteen meters. This means that you cannot build within that distance from your street boundary. The problem here is that the local council does not have the authority to allow you to go over this building line. For this reason it is a good idea to get a copy of your title deed and study it before you start planning a new building or addition.