{"id":243685,"date":"2026-09-08T08:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-tightens-service-station-rules-sets-1-5km-minimum-spacing-distance\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:58:59","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-tightens-service-station-rules-sets-1-5km-minimum-spacing-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-tightens-service-station-rules-sets-1-5km-minimum-spacing-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Tightens Service Station Rules, Sets 1.5km Minimum Spacing Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">THE Harare City Council has introduced tougher regulations governing the establishment of new service stations, including a 1.5km minimum spacing requirement, compulsory public notice boards and mandatory environmental assessments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The new measures were revealed during a tour of service stations by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy and Power Development, amid concerns over the proliferation of fuel stations, particularly in residential areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Acting director of Urban Planning, Samuel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609080088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Harare City Council has introduced tougher regulations governing the establishment of new service stations, including a 1.5km minimum spacing requirement, compulsory public notice boards and mandatory environmental assessments. The new measures were revealed during a tour of service stations by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy and Power Development, amid concerns over the proliferation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[55377,258,256,17026,500,7666,257,10967,5188,7123,254,55378,10613,6846,4686,421],"class_list":["post-243685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-1-5km","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-distance","tag-harare","tag-minimum","tag-news","tag-rules","tag-service","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spacing","tag-station","tag-tightens","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}