Makueni County Spatial Planning and Development Policy 2022

Abstract

Spatial planning outlines the methods and approaches used by the public sector to coordinate and influence the distribution of people and activities on land for sustainable economic growth. Several initiatives geared towards developing a planning framework have been witnessed over time. The pre-colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya made attempts to formulate similar policy frameworks in order to bring some order in land planning and management. The colonial government introduced the Town and County Planning Ordinance of 1931 and the Swynerton plan of 1955 which were all geared towards guiding spatial planning and development. After independence, the Government of Kenya came up with several initiatives to address proper planning and socioeconomic development. Such interventions included; the sessional paper 10 of 1965 on African socialism and its application to planning, Kenya. This emphasized on the need for planning for economic growth. Sessional paper No. 1 of 1986 on Economic Management for Renewed growth was also another initiative which focused on need for rural-urban balance as a way of addressing social economic developments in Kenya. Poverty reduction strategy, 2003- 2007, Economic Recovery Strategy for wealth and Employment Creation 2003-20071 and the Kenya vision 2030 still tried to propose ways of addressing the problem. The enactment of the Physical Planning Act CAP 286 of 1996 gave the foundation to spatial planning framework in Kenya from 1996 until 15th August 2019 when it was repealed through the enactment of the Physical and Land Use Planning Act of 2019.