Do's and Don'ts when Building or Renovating
The Do’s when Building or Renovating
✔ Ensure that the building is not out of scale with its surroundings.
✔ Incorporate elements of Oudtshoorn/De Rust’s street architecture in the design.
✔ Keep within the wall plate and roof height restrictions.
✔ Use vertically proportioned windows and ensure that new or replacement windows are stylistically compatible.
✔ Relate your building to the street in a way similar to the surrounding buildings.
✔ Retain the look and shape of the original building, where practical.
✔ Place the garage as a separate entity, set back from the main building.
The Don't’s when Building or Renovating
✘ Build in or enclose an existing street-facing veranda. / stoep
✘ Build fake reconstructions which compete with and devalue genuine buildings (e.g. Cape Dutch).
✘ Use fake thatching, cement roof tiles, large profile fibre-cement sheets, fake sandstone or IBR sheeting on main roofs.
✘ Change the street facade of roofs by putting in unsympathetic dormer windows.
✘ Use un-plastered concrete or face brick of any kind.
✘ Build on top of an existing old wall.
✘ Build solid boundary walls street-side
✘ Erect pre-cast concrete boundary walls or retaining walls.
✘ Remove significant trees or hedges without a very good reason (which, in any case, will require a permit).