The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) intends for 2017 to be the year that it embraces its statutory responsibility for planning.
Under the theme “Planning in Guyana and the Role of the Central Housing and Planning Authority,” the agency yesterday launched a two-day workshop aimed at consolidating stakeholder collaboration in supporting its mandate.
Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-Patterson, delivering the feature address, noted that the CH&PA is mandated under the Town and Country Planning Act to address land use planning issues. These issues, she explained, include planning and maintenance of roads, buildings and other structures as well as community planning (layout of housing areas, including density spacing and orientation of housing provision and siting of community facilities).
