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Influence of Developers’ Socio-Economic Characteristics on Compliance to Development Control Regulations in Urban Residential Zones: Case of Enugu, South-East, Nigeria

Egbonwonu, Jeremiah, Edmund Iyi, Lucy Ugwu, Obinna Ubani

Abstract

This study examines developers’ socio-economic characteristics influence on their compliance to development control regulation in the Enugu metropolis with a view to evolving policies for sustainable urban land use control and management in Enugu. The data were derived from a questionnaire survey of 400 developers and analyzed using descriptive and principal component analyses. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed in the study. The study area was clustered into three residential zones (traditional/ core, sub-urban and planned area). Then a simple random sample technique was used to select the neighborhoods from each of these zones: 2, 3 and 3 neighbourhoods were selected from traditional, sub urban and planned residential zones respectively. Multiple linear regressions were used to test the hypothesis. The result revealed statistically that age and educational attainment of the developers greatly influenced development control regulations compliance in the study area. The understanding of the revelation will help the urban planners come up with remedial approaches which would ensure that their future planning activities are more inclusive, pro-poor and hence sustainable.

Keywords

ComplianceSocio-EconomicRegressionDevelopers

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