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Greater Accra development plan under
review
Accra, April 4, GNA - A 12-member committee has been set up
by the Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations to look
into the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Development Plan
developed 15 years ago.
The action was informed by the growing demand of the economy
in terms of population size, infrastructure and social needs
as well as the changes in governance of the City.
Dr Thomas Fokuo Agyapong, Director for the Modernization of
the Capital City, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency
on Wednesday in Accra, said the Committee made up of experts
including economists, development planners, engineers and
architects were mandated to review the plan to give it a
short, medium and long-term strategic view.
He said the old plan had features like road networks,
telecommunications, environment and natural resources and
security.
Dr Agyapong said a two-year strategic plan had been
developed in the interim to look at the urban economy in
respect of Greater Accra and Tema.
He noted that economic and social development needed to be
dynamic to reflect current and growing changes in the
society, hence the need for a workable plan, which would
facilitate the City's development and beautification.
Dr Agyapong said the growth in population required that the
features in the 1992 plan were reviewed and the necessary
modifications done to suit the status of the Capital City.
He said so far copies of the drafted Review Plan had been
circulated to all sectors concerned, including Ministries,
Department and Agencies to enable them to make inputs.
He said after every necessary procedure had been followed
and the draft approved by the Government, it would become a
working document for local authorities, the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly, Tema Municipal Assembly and other
districts within the Capital City.
GNA
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