Awulae Annor Adjaye III, Paramount Chief of Western Nzema Traditional Area, has called on chiefs and land owners to work in tandem with the Town and Country Planning Department (TCPD) to ensure that lands were utilized for socio-economic development.
He has also called on developers not to encroach or build on reserved areas such as wetlands and mangroves which are natural habitat for aquatic species and called for stiff punishment to people who breached the law. Awulae Annor Adjaye was speaking at a Stakeholders Consultation Workshop on the preparation of the National Spatial Development Framework (NSDF) at Takoradi.
The NSDF is being prepared by the TCPD in collaboration with the National development Planning Commission. Mr. Lawrence Dakura, leader of the Project, said substantial data had been collected since the inception of the project in 2012 and that adequate stakeholder consultations were to be held at various stages to ensure that recommendations were sufficiently incorporated in the plan.
The workshop would, therefore, help validate data, present preliminary findings and fine tune data gathered as well as solicit for possible options for development from stakeholders, he said. Mr. Dakura said the three-tier NSDF would have broad national, sub-national, regional and districts spatial plans and structure on land use and zones of activities and plots for infrastructure work.
Mr. Kofi Blankson, Acting National Project Coordinator of the Land Administration Project-Two (LAP 2), said lack of documentation on land had often led to litigation and unplanned land usage leading to �chaotic development�. He said the government in its quest to achieve harmony and sanity in the human and physical settlement regime had resourced TCPD to come out with framework which would ensure that the country�s land resources were scientifically used for sustainable development.
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