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Muhammad Seedat, Chief Survey Technician at Shongweni

Picture: Alan Mitchell

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?
  

Click on the links to see detail surveys of an inner city area, a drainage problem and a river crossing.

• 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

Click here to see one of these plans.

• Cadastral information and plans

• Street address queries

• Plan and document microfilming

• Service and retirement certificates