Urban planning in Benin: The government sends a bill to parliament
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In the Council of Ministers of Wednesday, July 5, 2023, the government announced the transmission to the National Assembly, for examination and vote, of the bill on urban planning in the Republic of Benin. Once voted, this law will have to induce behavioral changes necessary for the appropriation of new rules of life in town.
According to the council, the law will make it possible to “promote the implementation of the investments of the Government’s Action Program, by facilitating the mobilization of land reserves and the reservation of large rights-of-way for future public investments within the framework of urban development planning. “. The said law must also “integrate into the principles, rules and instruments of planning and urban development, the tools for the protection and enhancement of sensitive areas, in particular those of the Coast, for adaptation to climate change and energy transition”. It will also take into account the context of modernization and accelerated urban development to be implemented by the actors in order to be able to deal with the gap in housing and services as well as the rapid growth of urban agglomerations. According to the minutes of the council, this law was transmitted to the Assembly in view of the insufficiency of legal instruments relating to the sector, in addition to the obsolescence of existing tools, which hinders efforts to develop sustainable cities and affects the management of public infrastructure and equipment.
The Minister in charge of the Living Environment, once the legislative procedure has been completed, will organize, in collaboration with the Minister of Justice, sessions to popularize the law so that its content is accessible to ordinary citizens.
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