Botswana - 1980 - Urban Development

Town and Country Planning Act

Botswana, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development

The act empowers the Minister to declare by order published in the Gazette, areas of land in Botswana to be planning areas. The act also makes provisions for the orderly and progressive development of land in both urban and rural areas and to preserve and improve the amenities contained, and for the grant of permission to develop land.

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Town and Country Planning Act Current Version

January 2022

The act empowers the Minister to declare by order published in the Gazette, areas of land in Botswana to be planning areas. The act also makes provisions for the orderly and progressive development of land in both urban and rural areas and to preserve and improve the amenities contained, and for the grant of permission to develop land.

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