Ogun town planners raise alarm over uncoordinated development

The Chairman of the Association of Town Planning Consultants of Nigeria, ATOPCON, Ogun State Branch, TPL Rauf Adebanjo, has raised the alarm implicit mounting improvement unit on large maturation corridors successful the state, informing that it could trigger uncoordinated carnal improvement if not decently managed.

Adebanjo asserted that portion the authorities is experiencing accelerated urbanisation and concern expansion, it is besides faced with challenges relating to infrastructure, housing, transportation, biology management, land-use conversion and improvement control.

He spoke during the association’s 2026 Annual General Meeting, AGM, held successful Abeokuta connected Thursday, insisting that these challenges indispensable beryllium urgently tackled to guarantee orderly and sustainable development.

“Ogun State is experiencing accelerated urbanisation, concern enlargement and expanding improvement pressure, peculiarly on large maturation corridors. These changes make opportunities but besides contiguous challenges relating to infrastructure, transportation, housing, biology management, land-use conversion and improvement control.”

He urged members to continuously amended their cognition and clasp modern readying tools specified arsenic Geographic Information Systems, GIS, integer mapping, data-driven readying and climate-resilient approaches.

Adebanjo besides called for intensified advocacy connected the consequences...