The Urban Dynamics Directors

The firm offers expert professional town planning services, in all aspects of the statutory process related to acquiring and unlocking land development rights. The professional services offered include spatial planning, policy formulation, township establishment processes and the procurement of enhanced development rights, using the statutory rezoning, subdivision and consolidation processes. The company also has a skilled in-house GIS component that offers GIS professional services to the market.

The company has built an impressive track record in leading complex, large-scale, multidisciplinary statutory processes, as well as smaller-scale processes related to the acquisition of enhanced development rights to meet a range of development objectives for a range of clients.

A focus on quality

Our objective is to provide a highquality, focused consultancy service to all sectors of the South African property industry – from private individuals, property owners, private developers, listed public property development companies and funds, to municipalities and government departments. We pride ourselves on uncompromised integrity, quality of service, personal attention to client and stakeholder management, as well as the proven ability to manage complex and mega-scale projects by applying our many years of professional experience in innovative ways.

Over a century of experience

Urban Dynamics Western Cape and South Cape have over 100 years’ combined in-house professional experience. Recently, Urban Dynamics has been involved in obtaining the land use rights for, among others, the Harbour Arch mixed-use development on the Cape Town Foreshore, the SAPOA awardwinning mixed-use development at 117 Strand Street within the City of Cape Town, the expansion of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC eastern section), the revised Overstrand Municipal Spatial Development Framework 2020, various large-scale human settlements developments in collaboration with the Department of Human Settlements, and many more.

Paul Olden is widely acknowledged for his skilled ability in leading and managing multidisciplinary teams through the often complex and challenging statutory planning processes. His experience as lead consultant in the urban planning field spans more than 30 years. His track record includes many successful highprofile projects covering a wide range of different commercial clients, developers and authorities. His experience includes large-scale projects such as Airport City, Harbour Arch, Oakland City and Frankendale Industrial, to name a few. He is passionate about town planning and has the proven ability and leadership skills to seek innovative and optimal solutions to challenges related to town planning and development.

Gerhard Swart is a widely experienced urban and regional planner with a vast range of experience from strategic regional policy planning, local-level municipal forward planning through to statutory development planning. His experience of more than 25 years spans a variety of different planning environments from coastal resort planning in sensitive ecological areas to large-scale industrial, retail, residential, golf estates and subsidised low-cost residential townships.

PJ Lerm has over 15 years’ experience in town planning, including spatial policy planning, commercial development applications and integrated human settlements development. He has a keen interest in resolving complex statutory land-use development challenges, seeking the most sustainable solution in the best interest of all stakeholders.