Lagos orders suspension of physical developments in Shapatta

The Lagos State government has ordered immediate suspension of developments along alignments of the ongoing regional road, particularly Shapatta, near the Victoria Garden City (VGC).  During a routine monitoring visit, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, decried the alarming rate of illegal and haphazard development going on along Harrison Drive, […]

The Lagos State government has ordered immediate suspension of developments along alignments of the ongoing regional road, particularly Shapatta, near the Victoria Garden City (VGC).

 During a routine monitoring visit, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, decried the alarming rate of illegal and haphazard development going on along Harrison Drive, Shapatta, behind VGC in Lekki.

 Salako also lamented that unruly developers have continued to build indiscriminately along the axis, a trend, he said, could cause a blight from the onset.

 While he reiterated that the Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law 2019 (as amended) is still in force, the commissioner gave owners of all unapproved developments in the area 14 days ultimatum to regularise with the ministry. 

Dr Salako who issued a suspension order on fresh developments insisted on prompt compliance with the directive; warning that the state government would not hesitate to remove any “illegal” development.