PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan, has approved the proposed District Land Use Plans for Peshawar, Abbottabad, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshera, and Swabi.
The CM directed the authorities concerned to submit final proposals in consultation with the provincial administrative departments within one week.
According to details, the proposed District Land Use Plans are intended to provide policy guidelines for establishing a hierarchy of settlements, systematic growth of major infrastructure and services, and undertaking integrated development of urban and rural areas through systematic land utilization, allocation, development, and management.
The CM, while chairing the first meeting of the Provincial Land Use & Building Control Council, made it clear that all departments would have to implement the proposed district land use plan in its letter and spirit.
“Streamlining land utilization is the need of the hour and we can no longer afford the haphazard and unsystematic use of land,” he stressed.
He also directed the authorities to launch a grand operation to combat encroachments on rivers, canals, and other waterways, noting that these encroachments cause widespread loss of life and property during flash floods.
