Mr Hamulyata said the local authority had managed to purchase a GPS, an instrument which the local authority would use to plan for land so that only planned land should be given out to developers and other applicants.
He said in an interview in Livingstone at the weekend that the council would previously put an advert on plots but there was no size of land and numbers of plots that were planned.
Last week, Mr Hamulyata officiated Livingstone at New Fairmount Hotel yesterday when he officiated at the stakeholder validation workshop for the Livingstone City Council’s first ever Strategic Plan for the period 2017 to 2021.
“You cannot sell land that does not exist. If you get money from applicants on non-existent land, you are obliged to find land.
“The Strategic for the Livingstone City Council for the period 2017 to 2021 is trying to address some of the land challenges by coming up with a proper land policy so that the land here in Livingstone will be strategically documented using Geographical Information Systems.
“This will enable the council offload land to prospective developers. The process will be shorter online now,” Mr Hamulyata said.
He said the GPS would also help to formalise matters of infrastructure development.
“Using the GPS, we will know that this is a road reserve and we cannot give land. We want development to be demand driven. The local authority in Livingstone today is more reactive
“We should have a service charter on service management in terms of how we are going to manage waste,” he said.
That is progressive.
Progressive but don’t grab land from people., council workers have become so corrupt that they have no spirit of helping the poor but steal from them. Good tools, just word of correction GPS is different to Geographic Information System.
You were same thing about ballot papers, progressive.
How billion spent instead on just using free Google earth and permanent marker?
That is the good move. Well done
WHAT ARE THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THAT GPS , ACCURACY, DRONE OR AIRBORNE, HAND HELD ETC ? WHAT WAS THE COST AND WHO SUPPLIED ? HOW MANY TENDERS WERE CONSIDERED? DONT CHEAT PEOPLE IF YOUR ARE A LAYMAN, PLOTS WITH OR WITHOUT GPS , OTHERSURVEY INSTRUMENTS LIKE TOTAL STATION, DUMPY LEVEL COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO IDENTIFY LAND , ROADS , MARKETS, TOILETS , AND SO ON SO LEKANI MA EXCUSE YAUPUBA THIS GPS MUST BE A DEAL WITH A SENIOR OFFICIAL TO SUPPORT HIS KIDS AT SCHOOL
Its a good surveying equipment. High productivity, time management and cost effectiveness. GPS = GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM.
GPS stand for Global positioning system and not Geographic Information System (GIS). Step in the right direction which needs good software and qualified engineers to maximize productivity.
Very good move by LCC …please also incorporate Google Maps on to the system..most entrepruers in Zambia are sleeping!!
Why do you always be negative? You are just working for someone. Please do not always look down upon Zambian businessmen. They are better than you working up early in the morning to go and be bossed around. Get a life.
@ Je Je First tell your people to stop burning buildings!
Did I read from the report that ‘the local authority in Livingstone today is more reactive’…. I thought proactive would be more appropriate
I am looking at a clean city.No litter like in Lusaka especially Lumumba road..kwati ni civil war yapitilelko ,well done authorities in Livingstone.
Ziwa wapya manje