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CRITICAL EXAMINATION ON LAND USE AND ALLOCATION PROCEDURE
(A
CASE STUDY OF OWERRI)
ABSTRACT
The aim of this project is to examine and evaluate the physical, social and
economic effects of the present location of land use activities the Owerri
Urban and recommend solution to the problems identified. Thus it involves the
examination and analysis of the extend of development of land use activities
problems caused by the development of these land use activities. The impact of
government programmes and policies as regards the pattern of development and
finally to suggest alternative strategies to overcome the identified problem in
the area.
To achieve these, the methodology employed by the Author under primary
collected in the field survey, which includes observation, interview, informal
discussion and the use of questionnaires. The secondary data etc.
Due to the peculiar characteristics of the data collected the technique used in
the analysis is the Faro Yamani formula.
This ensures a most proper lasting in the formulated hypothesis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
1.1
Preamble
1.2
Statement of the Problem
1.3
Aims and Objective of the Study
1.4
Possible Research Hypothesis
1.5
Research Design and Methodology
1.6
Scope and Delimitation of Study
1.7
Significance of the Study
1.8
Definition of Some Importance Terms
CHAPTER
TWO: LITERATURE
REVIEW
2.1
The Concept of Land Resources
2.2
Land Use Situation and Location Factors
2.3
Activity System and Urban Land Use
2.4
Urban Land Use and Economic of Land
2.5
Forces Affecting Land Use Location
CHAPTER
THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1
Research Design
3.2
Study Area
3.3
Source of Data
3.4
Population and Sample Size
3.5
Hypothesis
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION AND
ANALYSIS
4.1
Introduction
4.2
Mode of Land Procedure and Application in Owerri Urban
4.3
The Allocation Procedure
4.4
Various Land Use Allocation in Owerri Urban
4.5
Questionnaires Analysis from Field Responses
CHAPTER FIVE
FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION
5.1
Summary of Findings
5.2
Formal Settlements
5.3
Informal Settlements
5.4
Recommendations
5.5
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 PREAMBLE
In recent times there
has been a rapant growth of towns and cities in this country. This growth has
been accompanied with an ever increasing physical social and the technological
changes as well as complex Urban Pattern of development.
This fast development
with its attendant sprawling effects on the original settlement and town out
skirted always cause some land use congestion. Personal and political pressures
etc. within and around the area involved.
In 1976, Owerri
became the capital of the then creates Imo State. Almost immediately, the
original settlement which were more or less residential / agricultural areas
became engulfed with the fast sprawling development in Owerri.
However the
morphology of these land activities in the area was observed not be the
function of only the original settlement patten, but also a function of the
government policies so in relation to the development of the area. These
policies so in relation to the development of the area. These policies and
their subsequent implementation in no small measure, contributed to the Owerri
Urban with their resultant effects on the indigenous other inhabitants of the
area, as the existing facilities in the area.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The main problem of
this study was to examine and evaluate the physical, social and economic effect
of land use activities in its present location in Owerri Urban and recommend
solution to the problems identified, because there has been series of criticism
against the manner by which land was allocated to people in Owerri Urban
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVE
OF THE STUDY
This research work
aimed towards recognizing the existing land use situation in Owerri Urban and
thus high lighting the implications and results of previous development
programmes and their implications. This will then severs as basis for
formulating a more functional and efficient planning programmes for the area.
THE OBJECTIVES ARE
1.
To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the allocation procedures.
2.
To identified the achievements and shortcoming of the procedure.
2.
To suggest possible means of implementing better land used and allocation
procedure.
1.4
POSSIBLE RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
The postulation of
this study was that conflicts of interest often arise between political
planners and the physical planners in the planning and executive of land use
activities therefore and allocation procedure in Owerri is defective.
1.5 RESEARCH DESIGN
AND METHODOLOGY
In this study, case
study research method was to be used. Important information were get through
the use of primary and secondary sources like interviews questionnaires
observation, journals and books on related topic. These will be distributed to
Estate surveyors, lawyers, town planners, civil servants and residents of
government layout. Data collected will be analyzed statistically with
percentage and chi – square..
1.7 SIGNIFICANCE OF
STUDY
The significance of
study was to serve as a guide to land experts v12 Estate surveyors, lawyers
etc. on the land for efficient utilization of the available land in Owerri
urban. It will also help in educating the public. On the various taken by such
commute to use and maintain the zoning ordinances, for uniformity in the
development process of the capital city.
1.8
DEFINITION OF SOME IMPORTANT TERMS
LAND
USE:- Land itself is a genetic term that
include the physical soil and all improvement on it such as plants, building
e.t.c. the use to which any parcel of land is put to accordance to the various
human activities is known as Land use.
MORPHOLOGY: Structure of an
activity or element
SPRAWL: Urban sprawl is the
irregular development of cities without apparent plan to the east, west, north
and south.
URBAN: A
town/city—which supply a wide rang of good and service to it’s country side.
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