Abstract:
This study assesses the impact of land acquisition on construction project delivery in the
Sunyani Municipality. The challenges in acquiring land than generally exists in the urban
centres especially within regional capitals such as Sunyani Municipal, Accra, Tema, Kumasi
etc. among others which stand out as areas where it is difficult and expensive to obtain land
for construction purpose. Purposive sampling technique with emphasis on convenience
sampling was adopted to select 30 participants which comprised contractors, landlords,
chiefs/traditional leaders, town and country planning officers/district planning officers in the
Sunyani Municipality, were interviewed. A structured interview was used and it emerged
that most people obtain land from private persons and customary landowners, and Chiefs.
That due to pressure on the available land for development, there is reduction in the size of
land for construction projects. Again, the result indicated that they buy land directly from
family head, reliable agents, and traditional rulers and later do documentation. On the role
of land owners/stakeholders in land acquisition, the result revealed that land owners and
family heads played significant role and it becomes easy to acquire land through them since
they allocate land to people through lands commission and the Municipal/District planning
officers who work in consultation with lands commission to demarcate land for sale.
Multiple sale and high cost of land and relationship between the chiefs and lands
commission is a major challenge in the municipality which affect land documentation and
processing at the lands commission. Also people should do due diligence before buying land
for any construction projects. The scope of the study should be broadened to capture more
data, that is by broadening the number of respondents in the study area and extend the same
to every part of the country which will give room for generalization in the study.
Description:
A Dissertation in the DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND WOOD
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, Faculty of TECHNICAL EDUCATION, submitted
to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Education, Winneba in partial
fulfillment of the Requirement for the award of the Master of Technology Education
(Construction) degree.
DECEMBER, 2016
