As would be the prospective managers or law enforcers in an areas, it’s your legitimate duty to ensure compliance to planning laws and other statutes is effectively being carried out as part of duty on behalf of a local authority. Hence, this will ensure orderly development of towns, cities and other sub-urban areas. It will also ensure adeqeuate infrastructure is also provided by the government to ensure health, safety and convenience.
This course will allow the graduating students to learn about laws relating to urban planning and rural planning which includes development control, zoning law and change of use. The local authorities in consultation with Town Planning Department is required to process application relating to building, rebuilding, renovations and also subdivision applications that deals with scheme plans, compensation issues including reclamation issues. Therefore, planning issues may deal with regional issues as well a local district; General Provision, a legal document prepared relating stricter controls on land uses and space which have been developed to provide guidelines to the developers. It is required that the students are fully conversant with planning laws so that resources such as land which is infinite is utilized to its maximum .In addition, the theories will also allow the students to realize the importance to reminisce theories and models that may help planners to develop panning laws in order to suit modern times. This would help the planners to revisit the policies and change laws so that such policies are compatible with changing times; it is important to realize that development shall benefit the proponents and should not be compromised with the resources which are getting finite. If the populace is to benefit; then developments had to be designed for its purposes so that issues on health, safety and convenience has to be seen to be provided. It is also important that supply of food, water and basic sanitation is provided when and development is proposed. In most cases the use of agricultural lands may not be used for other purposes as it may undermine food security of an area.
This course will allow the graduating students to learn about laws relating to urban planning and rural planning which includes development control, zoning law and change of use. The local authorities in consultation with Town Planning Department is required to process application relating to building, rebuilding, renovations and also subdivision applications that deals with scheme plans, compensation issues including reclamation issues. Therefore, planning issues may deal with regional issues as well a local district; General Provision, a legal document prepared relating stricter controls on land uses and space which have been developed to provide guidelines to the developers. It is required that the students are fully conversant with planning laws so that resources such as land which is infinite is utilized to its maximum .In addition, the theories will also allow the students to realize the importance to reminisce theories and models that may help planners to develop panning laws in order to suit modern times. This would help the planners to revisit the policies and change laws so that such policies are compatible with changing times; it is important to realize that development shall benefit the proponents and should not be compromised with the resources which are getting finite. If the populace is to benefit; then developments had to be designed for its purposes so that issues on health, safety and convenience has to be seen to be provided. It is also important that supply of food, water and basic sanitation is provided when and development is proposed. In most cases the use of agricultural lands may not be used for other purposes as it may undermine food security of an area.
- Teacher: Richard Nair