SERENGETI GOLF AND WILD LIFE ESTATE
7.Relationships between
Associations and other
entities
The background
All communities will have management entities
with different structures, interests, forms of
ownership and purposes resulting from their
different developed and evolved nature, and
from their different core business activities.
Communities vary from simple residential estate,
sometimes called gated communities, through
to golf estates with integrated or separate golf
clubs, hotels and function centres, other sports
facilities, to eco estates, equestrian estates,
and retirement complexes and so on. Core
association business functions can vary from
simply maintaining common property and
managing security services and suppliers, to
running golf clubs, events, food and beverage,
rented accommodation and full hotels, and to the
provision of services such as water, sewerage,
is increased because of the golf course, and
they have to accept the different characteristics
between a golf estate community and a purely
residential estate community. It is important that
all stakeholders within a community recognise
and respect the different purposes of the
entities making up their estate, and find ways to
integrate internal processes in the interests of all
concerned.
The policy
RCC
supports
the
development
and
implementation of a community management
structure
and
strategy
that
involves
all
property owners, all functional community or
business entities within the estate, and the
developer if appropriate or relevant. RCC
supports the adoption by its members of best
practice organisational planning, staffing and
management structures, systems and policies,
and encourages its members to stay informed
of such best practice in the industry at all times.
electricity, data and telecommunications.
RCC supports structures allowing for cross-
In many cases these different entities are in
management entities within the community and
conflict with each other in terms of service level
requirements from the association. For example
a hotel guest or a golfer may not be happy with a
pollination between the various committees and
supports the positioning of a single community/
Estate identity and brand, both internally and
externally.
security process at the gate that causes delays,
while residents want the highest levels of security
possible. It is also a fact that many families do not
buy into a community because they play golf, as
an example, however the value of their property
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