Town and Country Planning Law, Chapter 136 of 1946

Town and Country Planning [CAP. 136 CHAPTER 136 TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING A LAW TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE REPLANNING, IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATE 2257 NN 1963. Cap. 130. GGS 8 of 1983. GGSLN 3 of 1983. [28 March 1946] Date of PART I-PRELIMINARY commence­ ment. I. This Law may be cited as the Town and Country Planning Short title. Law. 2.-(1) Definitions:- "Authority" or "the Authority" means an executive authority appointed under section 4; "building operations" include any road works preliminary or incidental to the erection of buildings; "court" means either the High Court or an area court as the case may be; "development" in relation to any land includes any building or rebuilding operations and any use of the land or any building thereon for a purpose which is different from the purpose for which the land or building was last being used: Provided that the laying down by the occupier of farmland to fallow or any change of crops grown or to be grown or in the method of their cultivation by the said occupier shall not be deemed to be development save in so far as the Commis­ sioner, the Authority or a local government may determine; "existing building" means a building erected or constructed before the date of the order declaring a planning area under Interpreta­ tion. Town and Cow111:v Planning [CAP. 136 (2) For the purposes of this Law the placing or keeping on any land of any shed, tent or other object whether fixed or movable or collapsible, which is not a building shall be a use of that land. (3) For the purposes of this Law each of the following oper­ ations, namely:- (a) the re-erection, wholly or partially, of any building pulled down to or below the top of the ground floor, or of any frame building of which only the framework is left down to or below the top of the ground floor; (b) the re-erection, wholly or partially, of any building of which an outer wall is pulled down to or within ten feet of the surface of the ground adjoining the lowest storey of the building, and of any frame building so far pulled down as to leave only the framework of the lowest storey or part of such framework: (c) the conversion into a dwelling-house of any building not originally constructed for human habitation, or the conver­ sion into more than one dwelling-house of a building originally constructed as one dwelling-house only; (d) the reconversion into a dwelling-house of any building which has been discontinued as or appropriated for any purpose other than that of a dwelling-house; (e) the making of any addition to an existing building by raising any part of the roof, by constructing or altering a wall, or making any projection from the building, or making any other structural addition to the building, but so far as regards the addition only; and en the roofing or covering over of an open space between walls or buildings; shall be deemed to be the erection of a new building. PART If-PLANNING SCHEMES AND PLANNING AUTHORITIES 2259 GGS 8 of 1983. 3. A planning scheme mav be made under this Law with Scope of respect to any land, whether th�re are or are not buildings thereon, f:��;:;;t with the general object of controlling the development and use of land comprised in the area to which the scheme applies, of securing proper sanitary conditions, amenity and convenience, and of preserving buildings or other objects of architectural,