Local Plan

Under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1976 (Act 172), Local Plan is defined as a map and a written statement. It is an indicative plan to show the allowable and proposed future land use and intensity of development as well as the actions/programmes to better an area in line with the aspired development by local planning authority in years to come. As such, map and written statement of the Local Plan are normally read together and both components of the plan are complimentary of each others. Indifference of the plan, if any should be restudied and look for the intention of such proposal and cause of differences. It sometime might be due to negligence and over sight in which the mistake should be rectified. However, having said this, my view is if such a difference happened it should not make a significant bearing on the consideration for planning proposal and supersede other major components such as local planning aspiration and planning intensity.