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Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/131999 Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality Adendorff, Rudi Geyer, H. S. Donaldson, S. E. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies. Cultural property -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Citizen participation -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Land use -- Planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Regional planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Social aspects -- Case studies UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. Adendorff, R. 2025. Socially Inclusive Heritage Conservation Land-Use Management in Small Towns: A Case Study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch Univeristy [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/c445b9d3-8109-474f-8548-76efd665a6d0 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study addresses the critical issue of heritage loss due to inadequate conservation measures and limited municipal resources in small rural towns. As local governments are struggling to provide social development and even basic services, heritage conservation is a low-priority objective and is often disregarded by inadequately resourced municipalities. The study therefore also addresses the challenge of socially inclusive approaches to heritage conservation that aim to preserve the cultural heritage of various social groups in previously disadvantaged communities. This dilemma requires that heritage conservation overcomes heritage dissonance by incorporating the varying perspectives and narratives of heritage. For this study a mixed-methods approach has been employed, by combining GIS data and aerial photographs to create an inventory of historical structures. This was accomplished in order to categorise the heritage grading, conservation worthiness and condition rating of structures in the study areas of De Rust, Dysselsdorp, De Hoop, and Armoed/Volmoed. These study areas are all situated within the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality, Western Cape. Thereafter, key stakeholders within the local community were interviewed to acquire detailed information on the significance as well as on potential threats to these structures. Finally, the application of land-use policies was evaluated in order to determine their effectiveness in terms of internationally recognised heritage conservation guidelines. Key findings have revealed a variety of heritage conservation outcomes in the study areas. While the heritage conservation measures in De Rust and Volmoed were well developed and included a high percentage of buildings with impressive grading values under the National Heritage Resources Act (NHRA), a large number of dwellings were graded as “Not Conservation Worthy” (NCW) as a result of considerable alterations and modifications. Issues such as drug-related crime, historical disassociation due to objections against colonial and apartheid-era heritage, conflicting socio-economic uses of structures, and the need for security-related alterations to the structures collide with heritage conservation efforts, resulting in the further deterioration of historical structures. Excessive heritage structure restoration costs also impose significant financial burdens upon impoverished homeowners, particularly in previously disadvantaged communities. Heritage conservation is often neglected by local municipalities, thus resulting in the deterioration of both tangible and intangible heritage assets. Nevertheless, many deteriorated heritage sites without conservation-worthy buildings such as Die Ou Lokasie and Dysselsdorp, hold particular sentimental value for the local Coloured community because of their historic relations to the sites. Subconscious biases in heritage conservation exists when intangible aspects of living heritage that are evident in practices, traditions, and community identity are neglected, leading to even further negligence of tangible heritage. In order to address heritage dissonance, contrasting perspectives of local history should be engaged to reassess the different meanings and significance of heritage. Finally, socially inclusive heritage conservation requires the implementation of targeted land-use management policies, such as Heritage Protection Overlay Zones (HPOZ) or heritage-sensitive zones, by proactively involving diverse communities and local heritage organisations in heritage conservation efforts. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie adresseer die kritieke kwessie van erfenisverlies as gevolg van onvoldoende bewaringsmaatreëls en beperkte munisipale hulpbronne in klein plattelandse dorpies. Aangesien plaaslike regerings sukkel om maatskaplike ontwikkeling te bewerkstellig en selfs om basiese dienste te verskaf, is erfenisbewaring ’n lae prioriteitsdoelwit wat dikwels deur munisipaliteite met onvoldoende hulpbronne verontagsaam word. So ook word die uitdaging van sosiaal inklusiewe benaderings tot erfenisbewaring aangespreek, met die doel om die kulturele erfenis van verskeie sosiale groepe in voorheen benadeelde gemeenskappe te bewaar. Hierdie kwessie vereis dat erfenisbewaring erfenisdissonansie te bowe kom deur die uiteenlopende perspektiewe en narratiewe van erfenis by mekaar te laat aansluit. Tydens die studie is ’n gemengdemetode-benadering in werking gestel, wat GIS-data en lugfoto's kombineer om ’n inventaris van historiese strukture te skep. Deur middel van dié benadering word die erfenisgradering, bewaringswaardigheid en toestandgradering van strukture wat voorkom in die studiegebiede De Rust, Dysselsdorp, De Hoop en Armoed/Volmoed gekategoriseer. Hierdie studiegebiede is almal geleë in die Groter Oudtshoorn Munisipaliteit, Wes-Kaap. Daarna is daar as deel van die studie onderhoude gevoer met sleutelbelanghebbendes binne die plaaslike gemeenskap om gedetailleerde inligting oor die belangrikheid en potensiële bedreigings vir hierdie strukture te bekom. Laastens is die toepassing van grondgebruikbeleide geëvalueer om die doeltreffendheid daarvan te bepaal in terme van internasionaal erkende erfenisbewaringsriglyne. Sleutelbevindinge het gemengde erfenisbewaringsuitkomste in die studiegebiede aan die lig gebring. Terwyl die erfenisbewaringsmaatreëls in De Rust en Volmoed goed ontwikkel was, en ’n hoë persentasie geboue met hoë graderingswaardes ingevolge die Wet op Nasionale Erfenishulpbronne (NHRA) ingesluit het, is ’n groot aantal wonings weens beduidende veranderinge en wysigings as “nie-bewarenswaardig” gegradeer. Kwessies soos dwelmverwante misdaad; historiese disassosiasie gemik op koloniale en apartheidsera-erfenis; mededingende sosio-ekonomiese gebruike van strukture en die behoefte aan veiligheidsverwante veranderinge aan die strukture bots met erfenisbewaringspogings, wat lei tot die verdere agteruitgang van historiese strukture. Buitensporige herstelkoste vir erfenisstrukture plaas ook aansienlike finansiële las op die skouers van verarmde huiseienaars, veral in voorheen benadeelde gemeenskappe. Erfenisbewaring word dikwels deur die plaaslike munisipaliteit verwaarloos, wat lei tot die agteruitgang van tasbare sowel as ontasbare erfenisbates. Nietemin hou baie van die verswakte erfenisterreine sonder enige bewaringswaardige geboue, soos byvoorbeeld Die Ou Lokasie en Dysselsdorp, besondere sentimentele waarde in vir die plaaslike bruin gemeenskap vanweë hulle historiese verbintenisse met die terreine. Diepliggende vooroordele ten opsigte van erfenisbewaring ontstaan wanneer ontasbare aspekte van lewende erfenis wat in die praktyke, tradisies en gemeenskapsidentiteit sigbaar is, verwaarloos word, wat lei tot verdere verwaarlosing van tasbare erfenis. Om erfenisdissonansie aan te spreek, moet kontrasterende perspektiewe van plaaslike geskiedenis in werking gestel word om die verskillende betekenisse en waarde van erfenis te heroorweeg. Laastens vereis sosiaal inklusiewe erfenisbewaring die implementering van geteikende grondgebruikbestuursbeleide, soos Heritage Protection Overlay Zones (HPOZ) of erfenissensitiewe sones, deur proaktief diverse gemeenskappe en plaaslike erfenisorganisasies in erfenisbewaringspogings te betrek. Masters 2025-05-12T12:01:57Z 2025-05-12T12:01:57Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131999 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 162 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Cultural property -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Citizen participation -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Land use -- Planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Regional planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Social aspects -- Case studies UCTD Adendorff, Rudi Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title | Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title_full | Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title_fullStr | Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title_short | Socially Inclusive heritage conservation land-use management in small towns: a case study in the Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality |
| title_sort | socially inclusive heritage conservation land use management in small towns a case study in the greater oudtshoorn municipality |
| topic | Cultural property -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Citizen participation -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Land use -- Planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Regional planning -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- South Africa -- Oudtshoorn Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Social aspects -- Case studies UCTD |
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