Muhammad Seedat, Project Survey Technician at Shongweni

Purpose Statement

The Surveying and Land Information Department is committed to the provision of an effective cadastral, engineering and sectional title surveying service, together with the capture, maintenance and dissemination of land legal, land technical and land acquisition information and advice, thus facilitating planning and development within the eThekwini Municipality.

• Cadastral, Engineering & Sectional Title Surveying

Land Surveyors frame diagrams which are attached to Property Title Deeds.
GIS data is used to create survey instruction plans.
Detail surveys are required for the design of roads, services, buildings etc and for the redesign and upgrading of the city (the picture above shows survey field staff using GPS equipment at Shongweni).

• Understanding Survey Diagrams 
   
• Where are my property beacons?
  
  
• An Introduction to Coordinate systems in SouthAfrica
  
  
• Different methods of Surveying
  
 

Engineering Survey Requirements and drawing examples

• Land Surveying Branch Draughting Guidelines
• Survey of Urban Road
• Survey of Rural Road
• Survey of Rural Road with Houses
• Survey of Road with Turning Circle
• Survey for upgrade of Gravel Road to Tar Road
• Survey for Proposed Road
• Survey of Property with Parking
• Survey of an Open Site
• Survey for design of New Stormwater reticulation
• Survey of strip of land for design of services
  
  
  
 
• Land legal and land technical advice
• Capital project land acquisition facilitation
• Hand Plan preparation for land development

Handplans are used as documents for land negotiations and as references for cadastral surveys.

• Customised GIS plans
  - Durban CBD
  - EThekwini Ward Map New Boundaries

Click here to see one of these plans.

• Cadastral information and plans
   
• Street address queries  
   
• Plan and document microfilming 
   
• Service and retirement certificates

Please click here to view Tariff Tables 2011 / 20121