Nairobi, 1st November, 2024
County Executive Committee Member for Built Environment and Urban Planning Mr. Patrick Mbogo in the company of County Chief Officer for Urban Planning and Development Mr. Patrick Analo, on Thursday met the Nairobi City Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee led by the Chair of the Committee Dr. R.O Monda who is also a representative of the Law Society of Kenya in the Committee.
The committee which was established in the year 2021 pursuant to section 76 of the Physical and Land use Planning Act, 2019, handed over the first report on matters executed over the last 3-years and since the committee was unveiled.
The report provided an overview of development matters filed at the committee by aggrieved parties and who were dissatisfied with the decisions made after a case was settled.
Notably, most of the appeals appeared to emanate from aggrieved developers and / or interested parties whose developments were situated in areas characterized by medium and high income socio-economic groups only.
Nairobi Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee is a statutory quasi-judicial tribunal that is meant to be a cheaper non-legalistic alternative dispute resolution mechanism, envisaged to offer timely determination of appeals by aggrieved parties of all socio-economic groups in the Nairobi City County jurisdiction.
The Committee is composed of professionals from various fields including Advocates, Physical Planners, Architects, and Surveyors among others.
It is expected that the diversity of professionals in the committee are to enrich the committee’s deliberations , improve and equip the team to address all facets related to planning and Land use matters within the County.
The principal functions of the Committee include:-
- Hearing and determining complaints and claims made in respect to applications submitted to the County.
- Hearing appeals against decisions made by the Planning Authority with respect to Physical and Land Use Development Plans in the County.
- Advising the County Executive Committee Member in charge of Planning and Land Use in the County.
- Handling enforcement disputes.
Legally, the committee is allowed to co-opt 5 additional members on need basis mostly experts where a dispute that requires additional expertise arises.
The current composition is made up of 8 No. members, headed by a chairperson with a secretariat drawn from Nairobi City County staff and is currently domiciled at City Hall Court 2 in Nairobi.
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