THE SEQUENTIAL APPROACH-A MONOGRAPH ensure compliance in the degazetting of forest reserves or excision of hill lands by the State Authority.
v.
The One Stop Centre (OSC) System.
In April 2007, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government prepared a circular on the implementation of the One Stop Centre (OSC) system and, with the approval of the National Local Government Council, directed all state authorities and local planning authorities to adopt the new system.
The OSC is intended to shorten the time for the processing of the various applications for approvals of development by: increasing the number of staff in the processing of the applications in the LPA, coordinating and monitoring the comments and requirements of all the relevant departments involved in the processing, allowing all the plans for development to be submitted and processed concurrently, given a limited time frame for all the stages of processing, Replacing the planning committee with an OSC committee in every LPA.
3.2.2
WEAKNESSES OF THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS
PRESENT
DEVELOPMENT
CONTROL
AND
LAND
The weaknesses in the development control and land management processes are summarised as follows: i.
The planning permission process is unnecessary tedious and time-consuming. The procedures in the approval of planning permission as presently practiced in most local authority areas, is unnecessary tedious and time consuming. There are many causes of these delays, including:
unclear development policies, plans and guidelines;
unclear and imprecise recommendations on the part of the planning officers;
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