The existing land uses are in accordance with the Johannesburg Town Planning Scheme of 1979 and the Title Deed restrictions.

However, there are illegal land uses around the area.

 

(a) Residential Zoning

• Residential 1 is the predominant residential zoning in the precinct
• Residential 2 zoning applies to 1 stand in the precinct
  • - Erf 1092 on Ingalele Road in Emmarentia
• Residential 3 zoning applies to the following sites:
  • - Erf 1312 between Barry Hertzog Avenue and Clovelly Road
  • - Erven 31,40, 44 and 45 in Lower Park Drive (see fig 1,2,3 and 4)
  • - A few sites in the adjacent area of Linden.
• Residential 4 zoning applies to 1 stand in the adjacent area of Westcliff
  • - Erf 80 on Jan Smuts Avenue.
• Special consent use on residential 1 zoning have been granted for Institutional purposes (religious institutions / retirement homes / library)
• on the following sites:
  • - Erven 573, 574, 575, 576 and 576 on Selkirk Road (Coptic Church)
  • - Erven 1097 and 1095 on the corner of Barry Hertzog Avenue and Ingalele Road (Greenside Muslim Mosque).
  • - Erven 52 and 53 on Lower Park Drive (retirement home)
  • - Erf 301 on the corner of Selkirk Road and Kildare Avenue.
  • - Erf 818 on the corner of Louw Geldenhuys Drive and Ingalele Road.
• Illegal land invasion by homeless people applies to residential 1 zone on erven 52 and 53 on Dunkald Avenue 
• Special Consent uses on Residential 1 zoning have been granted for Small and Medium Scale Home Offices on the following sites:
• Erven 196, 197, 198, 199 and 200 on Tyrone Avenue.

(b) Educational Zoning

• Public Schools: Emmarentia Primary School, Greenside Primary School, Greenside High School, Parktown Girls High,

 Parktown Primary School and L Jan Celliers.

• Private Schools: Japanese School (erf 908 Olifants Road)
  • Montessori School
  • Japari School (erf 152 Dunkald Avenue).
• Crèches exist on the following erven:
  • - Erf 818 on the corner of Orange Road and Ingalele Road
  • - Erf 681 on Barry Hertzog Avenue
  • - Erf 301 on Selkirk Road in Parkview

(c) Institutional Zoning

• Institutional zoning in a form of places of worship applies to the following stands in the precinct:
  • - Erf 320 on Barry Hertzog Avenue
  • - Erven 1095 and 1097 on corner of Ingalele Road and Barry Hertzog Avenue
  • - Erven 32 and 35 on Lower Park Drive in Parkview
  • - Erven 146 on Dunkald Avenue in Parkview
  • - Erven 588, 589, 590, 591, 592 and 593 on Ennis Road in Parkview
  • - Erven 640, 641 and 642 on Lurgan Road in Parkview
• The Pallinghurst Hope Home.

(d) Business Zoning

• Business 1 zoning applies to the following areas: (See fig 5,6 and 7)
  • - Local shopping strip along Gleneagles Road in Greenside
  • - The commercial node along Barry Hertzog Avenue in Emmarentia
  • - The commercial node on Olifants Road in Emmarentia
  • - Local shopping strip along Tyrone Avenue in Parkview
• Business 2 applies to no stand in the precinct
• Business 3 zoning applies to the Checkers shopping centre
• Business 4 zoning applies to the office development on Victor Road 
• Business 3 and 4 zoning apply to some sites in the adjacent areas of Richmond and Braamfontein werf.

(e) Industrial Zoning

• · There is no industrial zoning in the precinct.
• · Industrial zoning applies to some sites in the adjacent area of Richmond and Braamfontein werf.

(f) Parking zoning

• · Public parking applies to the following sites
  • - Erven 189 and 188 on Greenway Road
  • - Erf 203 on Gleneagles Road
  • - Erven 351 and 353 on Barry Hertzog Avenue

(g) Public Garage

• · Public Garage zoning applies to erven 1108 and 1117 on Barry Hertzog Avenue

(h) Open Space Zoning

• · Public open space applies to Van Riebeeck Park, Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, Louw Geldenhuys View Park, Sir Lionel Phillips Park,

 George Hay Park, Zoo Lake, Emmarentia Dam and a small park in Greenside.

• Private open space zoning applies to the Parkview Golf Course.