The environmental clearance certificate is for: Activity 10.1 (a) (Infrastructure) The construction of – Oil, water, gas and petrochemical and other bulk supply pipelines. Activity10.1 (b) (Infrastructure) The construction of – Public roads. Activity 10.2 (a) (Infrastructure) The route determination of roads and design of associated physical infrastructure where – it is a public road. The Otjiwarongo Municipality identified the need to pro-actively plan and formalise new township extensions to the north and east of the existing town of Otjiwarongo in order to address the housing shortage experienced within the town. As such the proposed development consists of the creation of new townships as well as the formalisation of existing townships. The proposed development aims to provide approximately 4000 (14 townships) of the newly created erven to the north east of the DRC and Orwetoveni areas. The existing Eie Risiko informal area is proposed to be planned as a greenfield planning exercise. The proposed development further aims to provide approximately 500 erven to allow for the development of a lower income urban area between the NDF base and the Eie Risiko area where the Municipality would be able to allocate residential erven to the lower income households. The formalisation exercise will include the formalisation of the existing DRC Extension 4 and 5, Ombili and Tsaraxa-Aibes informal areas. The formalisation process aims to rectify encroachments on the ground and enable the creation of formal erven within these areas which can then eventually be acquired by the residents of the town.