Land professionals need new ideas to cope with hyper urban development

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Tanzania has been training Town Planners since the early 1970s. This has been the case with other land professionals such as surveyors, land officers and valuers. The issue cannot therefore be that of lack of expertise or trained manpower

The Town Planners (Registration) Act was enacted in 2007. The Act is aimed at making provisions for registering and disciplining professionals involved in land use planning. It created a government funded Town Planners Registration Board. Presenting this Bill for this Act, the then Minister for Lands Hon John Pombe Magufuli pointed out that it was only Town Planners (I prefer to call them Land Use Planners, since they deal with both urban and rural areas) among major professions in Tanzania who lacked a regulatory act. While lawyers, engineers, doctors, surveyors, accountants, teachers, and other professions had legislation regulating their behaviour, town planners had none. The Minister blamed chaotic urban development including the conversion of open spaces into private land, and the proliferation of unplanned settlements in urban areas, on lack of an enforceable legal framework regulating town planners. It was hoped then that since that the legislation was then (2007) in place, we would see improvements in the governance of land use planning. We would see a more orderly land development in our urban areas, large or small.

Land professionals need new ideas to cope with hyper urban development

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