Assessment of Urban Residential Land Use, Challenges and Control in Orita Obele Housing Estate, Akure, Nigeria

Muyiwa L Akinluyi,Ola Olumide S,Oluwatoyin O Adeleye,Akinniyi Tunde Akinyemi

doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2020.390.401

Abstract

This study examined the various challenges involved in urban residential land use and control in Orita Obele housing estate, Akure Ondo-State Nigeria with a view to providing information that will inform decision making on land and building development in the study area. Questionnaire were administered on One Hundred and Sixty-eight (168) housing units selected using a systematic random sampling. Data were analyzed using Descriptive, Bivariate and Multivariate Analysis. The result of the survey indicates that majority of the land owners (53.5%) acquired between (1) one and (3) three plots of land for their housing development in the study area and many of these residential land users (36.9%) and (20.2%) developed only (1) one and (2) two plots respectively for residential purpose. It was further discovered that majority (86.9%) of the land owners had gone through the approval processes of their survey by signing their survey plan with the relevant government agency in the state. However, 53.6% of the landowners are of the opinion that undue delay in signing the survey plan from state surveyor general had very low influence on their construction activities. The results from this study suggested more affordable residential land to be provided by the state government or stakeholders for adequate and proper planning of the housing environment to give room for more quality air space and comfort within the environment. The study will be useful as reference materials to inform policy for land and building development control in the residential environment, Akure Ondo-State.

Highlights

Urbanization according to (Mayaki, 2007) is the various process and activities required to transform a rural setting into a modern society which serves the various zonal economic needs of an industrial community. Akinluyi and Adedokun (2014) described urbanization as the proportion of total population or area in cities
The study was carried out through primary method of investigation to explore the various challenges involved in residential land use pattern and development strategies with a view to providing information that will inform decision making on land and building development in the study area
The following deductions were made based on the information obtained from the field study; majority of the land owners (53.5%) acquired between (1) one and (3) three plots of land for their housing development in the study area and many of these residential land users (36.9%) and (20.2%) developed only (1) one and (2) two plots respectively for residential purpose

Summary

Introduction

Urbanization according to (Mayaki, 2007) is the various process and activities required to transform a rural setting into a modern society which serves the various zonal economic needs of an industrial (rather than agricultural) community. Akinluyi and Adedokun (2014) described urbanization as the proportion of total population or area in cities. Nigerian urban and regional planning decree 88 of 1992 conceived the mechanism of development control in the context of all form of development in relation to building engineering, mining or other corporations in, on, over or under any land or making of any environmentally significant change in the use of any land, or demolition of buildings, including the felling of trees and the placing of free standing erections used for the display of advertisement on the land (FRN, 1992) It is a mechanism through which entire process of urban development is regulated to achieve the objective of promoting overall benefit of the society and creating a distinct image of the city. Land use in Orita-Obele estate were surveyed and cut into standard plots of 18 36 m which were allocated to individual to accommodate various building types for residential development and the sites were connected with road networks (Fig. 10 and 11 for undeveloped plots)

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