TY - GEN
T1 - Developers knowledge and compliance towards development control regulations in the Bolgatanga Municipality
AU - Tengan, Callistus
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton Ohis
AU - Balaara, Stephen Allan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Urbanization is a global phenomenon and if not regulated or controlled pose a great challenge to sustainable factors particularly the environment. The rate of urbanization in the Bolgatanga municipality in the upper east region of Ghana is a worrying situation and one that requires immediate attention to enhance sustainability of the environment. Private Individual and public developers failed to adhere to development control measures whiles the municipal assembly has also reneged on its duty to enforce development control regulations resulting in several unauthorized and unplanned development in the municipality. The paper examines the knowledge and compliance level of developers towards development control regulations in the Bolgatanga Municipality. This was achieved through the review of relevant literature on development controls and the use of open-ended questionnaires to elicit data from individual private developers in six (6) urban and peri-urban areas of the municipality. The study further reviewed the concept of development control and permit acquisition in Ghana. The implication of the study is to stimulate strict enforcement of development control regulation to promote efficient and sustainable development in the municipality. It is anticipated that the findings reported in this paper would be imperative for future strategies and guidelines for development in Ghana.
AB - Urbanization is a global phenomenon and if not regulated or controlled pose a great challenge to sustainable factors particularly the environment. The rate of urbanization in the Bolgatanga municipality in the upper east region of Ghana is a worrying situation and one that requires immediate attention to enhance sustainability of the environment. Private Individual and public developers failed to adhere to development control measures whiles the municipal assembly has also reneged on its duty to enforce development control regulations resulting in several unauthorized and unplanned development in the municipality. The paper examines the knowledge and compliance level of developers towards development control regulations in the Bolgatanga Municipality. This was achieved through the review of relevant literature on development controls and the use of open-ended questionnaires to elicit data from individual private developers in six (6) urban and peri-urban areas of the municipality. The study further reviewed the concept of development control and permit acquisition in Ghana. The implication of the study is to stimulate strict enforcement of development control regulation to promote efficient and sustainable development in the municipality. It is anticipated that the findings reported in this paper would be imperative for future strategies and guidelines for development in Ghana.
KW - Bolgatanga municipality
KW - Building permit
KW - Development controls
KW - Ghana
KW - Sustainable development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021734651&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60450-3_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60450-3_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85021734651
SN - 9783319604497
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 126
EP - 136
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Plannin and Infrastructure - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2017
A2 - Charytonowicz, Jerzy
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2017
Y2 - 17 July 2017 through 21 July 2017
ER -