OUR CLIENT PROFILE
The specialized services of this Firm have been engaged by most of the current existing dominant development initiatives and companies in South Africa and this Firm has rendered or is currently rendering such services, (in addition to smaller private developers and SME’s) to inter alia the most dominant development companies listed hereunder with regards to projects developed, planned or in process, throughout the Country.
- Abacus Asset Management (Pty) Ltd
- Abland (Pty) Ltd
- Acsion Limited
- Akani Properties (Pty) Ltd
- Assetgrow Investments (Pty) Ltd
- Atterbury Properties (Pty) Ltd
- Billion Group (Pty) Ltd
- Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd
- Blue Dust 41 (Pty) Ltd
- Bravospan CC
- Century Property Developments (Pty) Ltd
- City Park Trading (Pty) Ltd
- Costa Zervas Projects CC
- Dawson Motors
- Durf Kapitaal (Pty) Ltd
- Engen Petroleum Limited
- Erasmusland Investments (Atterbury)
- FC Mulder Group of Companies
- GH Devco (Pty) Ltd
- Glencore Operations SA (Pty) Ltd
- Godrich Flower Mills (Pty) Ltd
- Golden Falls Trading (Pty) Ltd
- Heritage Hill Devco (Pty) Ltd
- Huilbos Beleggings (Pty) Ltd
- Investec Property (Pty) Ltd
- Invicta Construction (Pty) Ltd
- Keystone Investments (Pty) Ltd
- KJANational Projects (Pty) Ltd
- Marqott Farming
- Mamphuri Investments (Pty) Ltd
- Mesure Facilities Management (Pty) Ltd
- McCormick Property Development (Pty) Ltd
- Moolman Group Property Management (Pty) Ltd
- MoratiwaProperty Development (Pty) Ltd
- Menlyn Maine Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd
- M&T Development (Pty) Ltd
- Nine Nine Ninety Nine Projects (Pty) Ltd
- Networth Properties (Pty) Ltd
- Rotabrite CC
- Rebosis Property Fund Ltd
- Resilient Property Income Fund Limited
- SAE Business Park (Pty) Ltd
- Sasol Pension Fund
- SolidariteitEiendomme (Pty) Ltd
- Stylestar Investments (Pty) Ltd
- Twin City Development (Pty) Ltd
- Twin City Trading (Pty) Ltd
- TiAuto (Pty) Ltd
- The Club Retail Park (Pty) Ltd
- Tridevco (Pty) Ltd
- Uniqon Wonings (Pty) Ltd
- Vibro Bricks & Paving
- Precinct Developers (Pty) Ltd
- PEB Properties (Pty) Ltd
- PVB Groothandel
- Pretoria Country Club
- Q4 Commercial Properties (Pty) Ltd


TOWN PLANNERS/CONSULTANTS
Adriaan Venter has over many years, on a National basis, established a unique and continuous legal consultancy relationship with most, if not all reputable Town Planning, Engineering and Environmental Consultancy Firms which Firms by way of reference and introduction are all in that capacity directly or indirectly involved with the clients listed above and in the projects listed hereinafter in order to procure expeditious and successful development:
- André Du Toit Town And Regional Planners
- Bokamoso Environmental Consultants And Landscape Architects
- Charlotte Van Der Merwe Town Planners
- City Planning Matters Ccx
- City Scope Town Planners (Pty) Ltd
- Davel Consulting Planners Cc
- De Jager& Associates T/A Plancentre
- Developlan Pietersburg Incorporated
- E Castelyn Town Planners
- Evs Planning
- Futurescope Town Planners
- Hunter Theron Incorporated
- J Paul Van Wyk Urban Economists And Planners Cc
- Johan Van Der Merwe
- Landmark Planning Cc
- Leap Environmental Ltd
- Leonie Du BrutoStads- EnStreeksbeplanners
- Maxim Planning Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- Metroplan Town And Regional Planners
- New Town Associates
- Planning Concept
- Planpractice Pretoria Cc
- Strategic Environmental Focus (Pty) Ltd
- Smit And Fisher Planning (Pty) Ltd
- Platinum Town And Regional Planners Cc
- Rinus Brits Town Planning Solutions
- Tech IQ
- Terraplan Gauteng Cc
- The Practice Group
- Umsebe Development Planners
- Urban Dynamics Gauteng Incorporated
- Van Blommestein& Associates
- Van Zyl&Benade
- Velocity Town Planning & Project Management
- Wes Town Planners Cc
- WesplanAssosiate
OUR PROJECTS
Adriaan Venter has personally, save for numerous smaller commercial, industrial and residential developments, been actively involved and in most instances personally appeared in hearings before Town Planning and Appeal Tribunals in respect of development applications and disputes or prepared and lodged appeals to and argued applications/appeals before numerous Tribunals and Municipalities which ultimately culminated in the realization of inter alia the projects listed infra or is still in the process to procure the land use rights and other statutory authorizations in respect of such listed projects which have not as yet in practice realised:
Shopping Centres
- Regional Shopping Mall of the North, Polokwane, Limpopo
- Arbour Town Regional Shopping Centre and mixed use Development, Kwazulu Natal
- Mafikeng Mall, North West
- MatlosanaRegional Mall, Klerksdorp, North West
- Ilanga Regional Mall, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
- Piet Retief Mall, Mpumalanga
- Groblersdal Regional Mall, Mpumalanga
- The Grove Regional Mall, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Six Fountains Commercial, Residential and Industrial Development, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Irene Mall, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Forest Hill Regional Shopping Centre, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Mall@Reds Regional Shopping Centre, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Maroun Square Shopping Centre, Fourways, Gauteng
- Hatfield Corner, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Moratiwa Crossing Development, Newcastle, Kwazulu Natal
- Ermelo Regional Mall, Mpumalanga
- Blue Haze Regional Mall, Hazyview, Mpumalanga
- SecundaRegional Mall, Mpumalanga
- Olievenhout Plaza Shopping Mall, Centurion, Gauteng
- Thornhill Shopping Centre, Polokwane, Limpopo
- Hillcrest Boulevard Shopping Complex, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Mthatha Regional Mall, Eastern Cape
- Middelburg Waterfront Development, Mpumalanga
- Westridge Regional Shopping Centre,Klerksdorp, North West
- Menlyn Maine Retail Development, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Menlyn Maine Casino, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Waterfall Regional Shopping Centre, Rustenburg, North West
- Jozini Mall, Kwazulu Natal
- Tubatse Mall, Burgersfort, Mpumalanga
- Blue Crane Eco Mall, Springs, Gauteng
- Ballito Junction Regional Shopping Centre, Kwazulu Natal
- Gift Acres Shopping Centre, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Elim Shopping Centre, Limpopo
- Raslouw Lifestyle Centre, Centurion, Gauteng
- Mall@Carnival, Brakpan, Gauteng
- Woodlands Boulevard Regional Shopping Mall, Pretoria, Gauteng
- Bushbuckridge Regional Shopping Centre, Mpumalanga
OFFICE DEVELOPMENTS
- Bendor Office Park, Polokwane
- Lady Brooks Office Park, Pretoria
- Lord Charles Office Park, Pretoria
- Menlyn Maine Office Park, Pretoria
- Excelpark Offices, Pretoria
- Menlyn Circle Office Park, Pretoria
- Sussex Office Park, Pretoria
- Tshwane Towers Office Park, Pretoria
- Stonemill Office Park, Johannesburg
- The Club Offices and Retail Development, Pretoria
- Harlequins Club Groenkloof, Pretoria
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS & HOTELS
- Boardwalk Meander, Pretoria
- Casa Giovanetti, Waterkloof, Pretoria
- Mapane Township, Musina, Limpopo
- Celtic Village, Rietvlei, Pretoria
- Erasmia Ext 15 Residential and Mixed Use Development, Pretoria
- Peach Tree Estates, Centurion
- Derdepoort Residential Estate, Pretoria
- Heritage Hill Estate, Centurion
- Various Lynnwood / Menlo Park / Hatfield / Brooklyn, Pretoria high density residential developments
- Kuduskop, Eastern Cape
- Langdale Golf Estate, Polokwane
- Shannon Ridge, Nelspruit
- Sheppard Boutique Hotel, Nelspruit
- Menlyn Maine Hotel, Pretoria
- Arbour Town Hotel, Amanzimtoti, Kwazulu Natal
- and numerous others


INDUSTRIAL AND FILLING STATION DEVELOPMENTS
Adriaan Venter has, during his career, legally assisted his clients with several industrial developments of magnitude throughout the Country and has moreover personally argued and procured land use rights for numerous suburban filling stations, and Highway one-stop fuel and retail facilities on virtually every main traffic arterial, the latter which frequently included applications for site and retail filling station licences in terms of the Petroleum Products Actof 2003.
HIGH COURT LITIGATION
Adriaan Venter has recently been involved as the Attorney of record in inter alia the below-mentioned High Court litigation matters which pertain to the field of specialization of this Firm, i.e.
- Abseq Properties Ltd v Maroun Square Shopping Centre (Pty) Ltd and Others (27808/2011) [2011] ZAGPJHC (establishment of Shopping Centre in Dainfern Johannesburg)
- Nabuvax (Pty) Ltd & 2 Others v The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and Billion Group Property Developments (Pty) Ltd & 4 others (31875/2013) (the establishment of the Forest Hill Shopping Centre on N14)
- Choose Life Church NRC & 13 Others v The Chairman of the Strategic Land Development Tribunal of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Menlyn Main Holdings Ltd (71699/2013) (Approval of Casino development in Pretoria)
- Acornhoek Plaza Share Block (Pty) Ltd v The EMC Department of Agricultural, Rural Development and Land Administration, Mpumalanga Province & 6 Others (47634/2013) Dispute with regard to land transactions and shopping centre rights – Acornhoek
- The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Ellerines Bros (Pty) Ltd (22970/2012) (Land use rights dispute)
- Diggers Development (Pty) Ltd v The City of Matlosana (as client)& 1 Other (47201/2009) (Dispute regarding alienation of Municipal land and Establishment of Matlosana Mall)
- James Gilbert SA (Pty) Ltd v Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd (3590/2012) (Several High Court and Arbitration proceedings pertaining to Sponsorship dispute)
- Nine Nine Ninety Nine Projects (Pty) Ltd & Another v The Minister of Energy & Others (6307/2011) (Appeal case nr A543/2012) (Review of decision on site and retail licences filling station
- Ti-Auto (Pty) Ltd v The Municipal Manager: City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality & Others (15833/2013) Unlawful access to development
- Martin Bruce Rencken [First Applicant] & Another v KwaDukuza Municipality [First Respondent], Menlyn Maine Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd [Second Respondent] & 3 Others (9234/2015) (Expansion of Ballito Junction Shopping Centre) (Establishment of Ballito Regional Mall)
- Prime Spot Trading (Pty) Ltd v Moratiwa Property Development (Pty) Ltd & 3 Others (6446/2010) (Establishment of shopping centre in Newcastle)
- Solidariteit Eiendomme (Pty) Ltd v MEC: Department of Economic Development Gauteng Province & 4 Others (23861/2014) (Development of Educational Facility)
- Samancor Chrome Limited v Skyward Housing (Pty) Ltd [previously known as Matlapeng Housing (Pty) Ltd] (11067/2015) (Development of Township where mining rights exist)
- Tridevco (Pty) Ltd & 5 Others v Zenprop Property Holdings (Pty) Ltd & 8 Others (Unlawful development of Shopping Centre)
- Patricio & Sons Properties (Pty) Ltd v The Member: Limpopo COGHSTA & 9 Others (59779/2015) – Constitutionality of Town Planning legislation
- The Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd v The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (51729/2015) – Contractual dispute
- Twin City Bosbokrand (Pty) Ltd v The Municipal Manager: Bushbuckridge Local Municipality & 7 Others (50490/2012) – Unlawful alienation of Municipal land for development purpose
- Nthwese Development (Pty) Ltd v The Municipal Manager: Bushbuckridge Local Municipality & 3 Others (7061/2014) – Dispute regarding Municipal alienation of land
- Patmar Explorations & 4 Others v The Limpopo Province Development Tribunal & 11 Others (67446/2012) – Unlawful conduct of Town Planning Tribunal)
- Bunkerhills Investments 436 (Pty) Ltd v Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of South Africa – Review of Town Planning Decision
- GP & SJTroskie v Liquidators of RSD Construction CC & 3 Others (71322/2010) – Occupational land rights dispute
- Turnstone Trading 13 CC v Ms ED Peters MP , Mr T Maqubela NO, Martin van WykDiensstasie (Pty) Ltd & Phindana Properties 79 (Pty) Ltd (61665/2012) (Site and Retail Licence dispute – filling station)
- Chieftain Real Estate Inc Ireland v Dr ST Cornelius NO Head of Department Agriculture Conservation & Rural Development & Others (37087/2009) – Review of Environmental Authorisation
- Witwatersrand Estate Limited & Atterbury Waterfall Investment Company v The Head of Department: Agriculture & Rural Development Gauteng & Others – Review of Environmental Authorisation
