AWARENESS CREATION ON PERMITTING ISSUES AND OTHER RELATED LAND ISSUES IN KWAHU WEST MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY
\nThe Department of Physical Planning is responsible for the activities of the Department of Town and Country Planning and the department of Parks and Gardens.
\nThe Physical Planning Department does and link to activities include
\n\u2022 Development control
\n\u2022 Assessment of permits
\n\u2022 Street naming and property addressing system<\/p>\n
Status of SNPAS<\/p>\n
Land use Planning and Development control can never he underrated inhuman settlement growth and development. In the wake of rapid population growth and uncontrolled urbanization, adequate spatial planning has gained such prominence as a total to achieve a congenial living environment.
\nTowns in Ghana of which Nkawkaw is part lack the ability to harness the good side of increasing population. We are continuously bedeviled with the spate of Spatial Planning always chasing after development instead of the vice versa. This consequently leads to erection of unauthorized structures, haphazard developments, informal settlements and slums.
\nEffectiveness of development control measures and practices are stalled by several factors including political interference, low staffing capacity of institutions, low awareness of regulations concerning development control, inadequate funds unscrupulous activities by some land owners and private artisans amongst others.<\/p>\n
Public Education<\/p>\n
The Physical Planning Department of the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly as part of its mandate is to educate developers on the need to acquire development and building permits before the commencement of new developments.
\nIn line with this Department has adopted strategies like community engagements and radio programmes to address issues of low awareness creation on permitting issues in the municipality.
\nThe Department over the course of the year has had five radio programmes with Life fm and Okwawufm and one community engagement forum with residents of Kwaman (residents around St. Anthony\u2019s School) to create awareness on permitting issues and other Spatial |Planning activities.
\nThough the number of programmes organized is small, its effectiveness cannot be under emphasized judging by the call in and participation of the general public during the programmes and forum.
\nWe however hope to intensify awareness creation programs next year and extend it other radio and communities as demanded by the public.
\nThis we hope will create a conducive atmosphere and enabling environment for the enforcement of building regulations and acquisition of development and building permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AWARENESS CREATION ON PERMITTING ISSUES AND OTHER RELATED LAND ISSUES IN KWAHU WEST MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY The Department of Physical Planning is responsible for the activities of the Department of Town and Country Planning and the department of Parks and Gardens. The Physical Planning Department does and link to activities include \u2022 Development control \u2022 Assessment of permits \u2022 Street naming and property addressing system Status of SNPAS Land use Planning and Development control can never he underrated inhuman settlement growth and development. In the wake of rapid population growth and uncontrolled urbanization, adequate spatial planning has gained such prominence as a total to achieve a congenial living environment. Towns in Ghana of which Nkawkaw is part lack the ability to harness the good side of increasing population. We are continuously bedeviled with the spate of Spatial Planning always chasing after development instead of the vice versa. This consequently leads to erection of unauthorized structures, haphazard developments, informal settlements and slums. Effectiveness of development control measures and practices are stalled by several factors including political interference, low staffing capacity of institutions, low awareness of regulations concerning development control, inadequate funds unscrupulous activities by some land owners and private artisans amongst others. Public Education The Physical Planning Department of the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly as part of its mandate is to educate developers on the need to acquire development and building permits before the commencement of new developments. In line with this Department has adopted strategies like community engagements and radio programmes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwahuwest.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}