An Assessment of Land Use and Allocation Procedure in Property Development (a Case Study of Uyo Local Government Area)
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
- To assess the procedure of land use allocation for property development in Uyo local government area.
- To determine the effectiveness of the procedure of land use allocation in Uyo local government area.
- To identify the factors militating against land use allocation procedure in Uyo local government area.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
This chapter gives an insight into various studies conducted by outstanding researchers, as well as explained terminologies with regards to land use and allocation procedure in property development. The chapter also gives a resume of the history and present status of the problem delineated by a concise review of previous studies into closely related problems.
The Concept of Land Use
“Land is a delineable area of the earth’s terrestrial surface, encompassing all attributes of the biosphere immediately above or below this surface including those of the near-surface climate the soil and terrain forms, the surface hydrology (including shallow lakes, rivers, marshes, and swamps), the near-surface sedimentary layers and associated groundwater reserve, the plant and animal populations, the human settlement pattern and physical results of past and present human activity (terracing, water storage or drainage structures, roads, buildings, etc.).”
This definition conforms to land system units. landscape-ecological units or unites de terroir, as building blocks of a watershed (catchment area) or a phytogeographic unit (biome). The repeated reference to ‘land and land resources’ of Chapter 10 may be taken to mean: land as well as its individual land components.
The definition of a natural land unit as defined above is distinctive from an administrative unit of land (territoire) which can be of any size (individual holding, municipality, province, state, etc.) and which normally encompasses a number of natural units or parts of them. The components of the natural land unit can be termed land resources, including physical, bionic, environmental, infrastructural, social and economic components, inasmuch as they are fixed to the land unit.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes methods and procedures used in conducting this research work. The description of the procedure is done under the following headings:
- Research design,
- Area of study
- Population of the study
- Sample and sampling procedure
- Instrumentation
- Procedure for data collection
- Procedure for data analysis
RESEARCH DESIGN
The surveys research method was used for this study. This was considered appropriate because survey design generally can be used to effectively investigate problems in realistic settings. The survey technique will also allow the researcher to examine several variables and use multi-variate statistics to analyze data.
AREA OF THE STUDY
The study was conducted in AkwaIbom State, Nigeria. AkwaIbom is one of the six states in the south southern partofNigeria. The population of AkwaIbom State, according to the AkwaIbom State Government is 4.5 million, a number disputed by the Nigerian Government and judged unreliable by the National Population Commission of Nigeria. The study was carried out at the AkwaIbom state ministry of Lands and housing.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
The population consists of the entire staff of the state ministry of lands and housingUyoAkwaIbom State. With a staff strength of 50 employees.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
This chapter is devoted to the presentation, analysis and interpretation of the data gathered in the course of this study. The data are based on the number of copies of the questionnaire completed and returned by the respondents. The data are presented in tables and the analysis is done using t-Test. The correlation statistics was used in the validation of hypotheses.
Table1 above shows the gender distribution of the respondents used for this study.
Out of the total number of 50 respondents, 30respondents which represent 60.0percent of the population are male while 20 which represent 40.0 percent of the population are female.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Summary of Findings
The objectives of this study were:
- To assess the procedure of land use allocation for property development in Uyo local government area.
- To determine the effectiveness of the procedure of land use allocation in Uyo local government area.
- To identify the factors militating against land use allocation procedure in Uyo local government area
Findings from the study revealed the following
- The procedure of land use allocation has not been effective in AkwaIbom state.
- There are challenges to the effective land use allocation in Uyo.
- Effective land use allocation can improve infrastructural development.
- Government should be saddled with the responsibility of land use allocation in Nigeria.
- Procedure for land use allocation can be improved in AkwaIbom state.
Conclusion
Land use allocation necessarily has to do with the siting of buildings and communication routes with objectives of achieving equilibrium between convenience, beauty and cost. It determines where residential buildings and even new industries should be located, how raw materials can be transported to them, and their products distributed to market, where the employees should live, how they would get to work, where schools and other institutions should be situated.
Recommendation
The procedure of land use allocation should be effectively implemented by the AkwaIbom state government. Effective land use allocation can improve infrastructural development and this will reduce the challenges to the effective land use allocation in Uyo. Government should be saddled with the responsibility of land use allocation in Nigeria.
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