Before you pay for drawings, compare what is included. A free request for plan prices in Brits goes to a draughtsperson serving Brits and nearby areas of North West, and you see the fees, the stages and the timeline side by side.
Plan Prices in Brits
Prices in Brits follow the same drawing rates as the rest of North West, but council fees, travel for site visits and the type of stand can change the total. Give the suburb or erf number and the floor area, and each quote will list those local items separately.
New to this? Read the plan prices guide for the choices and the questions worth asking before anyone measures up.
Brits notes on plans & approvals
Brits and the Hartbeespoort area fall under Madibeng Local Municipality, which handles a large and varied area from farms to townships and lakeside estates. Building plan processing can take longer in a municipality this size, so allow for that. Estates around the dam have their own architectural reviews before council, and some stands have servitudes or flood lines along the Crocodile and the dam. A local draughtsperson can check these before drawing begins.
Homes and buildings in Brits
Brits is an irrigation town on the Crocodile River, where citrus orchards, vegetables, small factories and Hartbeespoort Dam shape what gets built. Older houses in Damonsville and the town centre are being extended, and farm owners along the Magalies canal ask for homesteads and worker housing. Letlhabile, Mothutlung and Oukasie are growing with RDP houses, rooms to let and spaza shops. Around Hartbeespoort and Schoemansville, steep stands hold weekend homes and lifestyle estates with strict design guidelines. Clay and dolomite in some parts mean that the foundation question comes up often.
Typical plan prices requests in the area come from:
- Farms, smallholdings and rural homesteads: a fee that shows travel to the stand, since farm and village sites are far from town
- Families building a new house: a clear drawing fee for the house, and a list of the extras that sit on top of it
- Shops, offices and restaurants: a quote for a shop or office layout, with the council and fire items itemised
- Owners adding or changing rooms: the price of measuring up the house as it is, plus drawings for only the new work
- Developers and builders: a lower price per unit when the same house type is drawn once and repeated
- Churches, schools and crèches: an itemised price a committee can approve, with each stage and extra separated
- Rental and granny flat investors: a per-unit price for backyard rooms or flats, so the return on the rental can be worked out
- Estate agents, sellers and landlords: a fixed price for a listing plan or for as-built drawings that unlock a sale
Local tips for Brits
Popular here: farm homesteads and worker houses, dam-side weekend homes, township extensions. Ask each draughtsperson about this: ask whether your stand is near the river or dam flood line before you draw. Who does the work: draughtspersons in Brits and Hartbeespoort, engineers and surveyors in Pretoria.
Jobs range from a 40 m² cottage to a 400 m² home. Here, farms, smallholdings and rural homesteads lead the requests, typically for a fee that shows travel to the stand, since farm and village sites are far from town. One local point to raise: clay and dolomite in places, flood lines near the river: ask about site checks.
What to include in your request
- The approximate floor area, or the rooms you want
- Single or double storey
- Whether council submission is included
- Whether the stand is sloping or awkward
- What you already have, such as old plans
A rough idea of the rooms is enough: the brief on this page turns it into a block plan and a floor area.
Service area: Brits and surrounds
Requests from Brits go to people who already draw plans for Hartbeespoort, Letlhabile, Mothutlung, Oukasie, Damonsville, Mooinooi, Schoemansville and the rest of the area. Mention whether the stand is in an estate or complex, because design rules there come before council.