LAND USE AND ALLOCATION COMMITTEE

LAND USE AND ALLOCATION COMMITTEE

The Land Use and Allocation Committee treat and coordinates all matters that border on the following:

• Land allocation at various existing Schemes in the State to the public;
• Processing and issuance of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O)
• Management of all existing Schemes in the State
• Administering Ground Rent and computation of Demand Notice
• Management of Government Leases
• Technical Committee on Excision Matters
• Creation and Management of Residential & Industrial Schemes;
• Dispute Resolution on Land Matters;
• Regularisation of Federal Government Grants
• Renewal of Leases
• Processing Deemed Grant Consent (formerly Private C of O)
• Other duties as may be assigned by His Excellency, the Governor.

REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY

• Duly completed Application form
• Payment receipt for the application form
• Payment receipt for allocated land
• Four passport photographs

WORK FLOW FOR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY

• Applicant purchases and submits application pack to LUAC and collects acknowledgement slip.
• Applicant collects Letter of Offer
• Applicant pays for allocated Land within 60 days
• Applicant issued with Letter of Confirmation with Plot and Block Number (Full payments must be made before Plot & Block are allocated)
• His Excellency, the Governor signs C of O and sends file to the Land Registry for further processing
• Land Registry registers C of O and releases the C of O to the allottee

REQUIREMENTS FOR DEEMED GRANT CONSENT (FORMERLY PRIVATE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY)

• Duly completed Application Form
• Payment receipts.
• Land information certificate with payment receipt.
• 2 (Two) copies of Deemed Grant Deed with cloth survey plan attached.
• Locational sketch of the subject site.
• 4(Four) copies of passport photographs of applicant.
• Picture of the subject site showing date.
• Certificate of Incorporation and form showing particulars of Directors (where applicant is a company).
• Consent fee, Stamp duty and Registration fee.
• Publication fee.
• Evidence of payment of income tax

APPLICABLE RATE

3 % 0f Fair Market Value (FMV) of subject site/ property, made up of:

Consent fee: –           1.5 %

Stamp duty: – 0.75%

Registration fee: –   0.75%