It is very vital that every person, client, individual or estate developer intending to raise up any building structure should know that they cannot just carry on with that exercise without the due and formal notification of the state’s authority concerned.
This state’s authority as far as the Lagos environs are concerned is the Lagos STATE Physical Planning and Permit Authority(LASPPPA).
The duty of this regulatory body is to ensure your residential or commercial property conforms to the required standard and follow set out town planning guidelines set for the different geographical locations of the state.
It also particularly helps the government to have a documentary account of the various housing or industrial developments happening in the State for such use as infrastructural siting and distribution of social amenities that could help impact the quality of living in the State.
It is equally an important economic data tool that serves the essence of facilitating the understanding of what housing infrastructural deficit or lacuna there is vis-a-vis the population density for proper housing intervention scheme if necessary by the government.
In obtaining this approval, a certain building plan number is usually issued at either the various district offices spread all over the entire local government areas in the State and well as at the LASPPPA HQ located at Oba Akinjobi GRA in Ikeja.