Folks,
The following was sent to me by Taffa Njie throwing more light into the
Brufut land allocated to him for his "Operation House the Nation" project.
He is in the process of scanning the scaled map showing where the TDA lies
and where he was allocated land for his project. Hopefully, this would be
available soon and I will forward it to George or Yus to put on the Post.
The same would also be done for Gambia-L subscribers. After doing that I
will report my discussions with him concerning the same and hopefully fill
up some of the gaps that may be there.
Have a good day, Gassa.
PS. This was prepared by Mr. Buba Barry, former Director of Physical
Pllaning and Lands and was supported earlier, when I first got involved in
this debate, by Mr. Tamsir Mbye - PS Dos-WID, Dr. Saidou Jallow - PS
Tourism and Dr. Rodie Cole, achitect and consultant.
===============From Taf Holding Company Limited=============
In order to provide for a more efficient land administration, the State
Lands Act was passed in 1991 to replace the Lands (Banjul and Kombo St
Mary) Act cap 102 and to provide for a unitary title system in designated
areas. The objective being; security of tenure – 99 year leases - to
encourage investment in land for physical development, a more efficient
transfer process of landed property and the freeing of land from customary
tenure to be made available for development. In line with these objectives,
Kombo North, South and Central were declared State Land in 1993.
In 1970, the Tourism Development Area (TDA) was legally designated The TDA
covers an area of half a mile – approximately 800 metres, inland from the
high water mark and runs from the Kotu stream to the Alahein river at
Kartong. Part of the area that constitutes the TDA was leased to
Government, for a period of 99 years, by the Kombo North (from Kololi point
to River Tanji) and Kombo South ( from River Tanji to River Alahein)
District Authorities. The 1988 Greater Banjul Area (GBA) Land Use Plan 2000
serves as a guiding plan for development in the GBA including the TDA and
contrary to popular belief the Masterplan does not legally reduce the
extent of any part of the TDA.
When Taf Holding Company Limited applied for land under its housing
development project, the application was forwarded to the Land
Administration Board for consideration. After several sittings on the
matter, the Board approved the application subject to the following:
· the application be considered and endorsed by the then Tourism
Area Development Area Board since the land applied for falls within the TDA
and
· the Physical Planning Development Board to consider the issue of a
change of use since the area was designated for tourism purposes.
After the TDA endorsed the application and the change of use granted by the
Planning Board, the Land Administration approved the allocation but
considering the scope of the project, the Department of State for Local
government and Lands further submitted the matter to Cabinet for final
approval.
Cabinet considered the application and approved the allocation to Taf
Holding Company Limited of two sites – Yundum and Brufut on condition that
the Yundum project is implemented first.
It is worth noting that the extent of land allocated to Taf holding at
Brufut fell far short of what was originally recommended by the Department
of State for Local Government and Lands due to the fact that there were
squatters on the land. The site finally allocated to Taf Holding Company
was devoid of any developments and free from squatters.
--
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see,
yet small enough to solve (Mike Leavitt)
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