Cornubia was regarded as KwaZulu-Natal's first integrated sustainable human settlement. It formed part of the eThekwini Municipality's slum clearance programme that would promote higher densities, with a focus on work, play and live. The project would use housing as a catalyst for sustainable economic growth and accelerate housing delivery and improve the quality of housing products and environments to ensure asset creation. Housing had been indicated as an instrument for the development of sustainable human settlements in support of spatial restructuring. Cornubia was a strategic land holding situated within the northern corridor of Durban. It represented a public-private partnership between the city and Tongaat Hulett.