TOWN PLANNING To most South African land surveyors, and those in other of the technical professions in this country specially concerned with land, town planning is generally associated with, either planning what use shall be made of land by the community, or with “designing” the subdivision of land whose use has been so planned. So far as the town planning profession is concerned, in the main, it is within the municipal areas of cities and towns or their peripheries that it performs these two functions. There is room for only a relatively small number of members of the town planning profession to concern themselves to anything but a minor extent with the overall planning of land use for the community, such as is represented by a city's town planning scheme. Consequently, the great majority of town planners must, in the main, be engaged in the design function. The positive role of the town planning officials of a local authority is considerably restricted. They have little if any part in advising ...