Proposal for National Land Use Planning to Support Industrial Investment

TLDR

• As part of that effort, the government directed planning authorities to allocate 10% of every area covered by a City Master Plan for business and industrial investment, alongside a Strategic Environmental Assessment.
• Under the Fifth Phase Government, then Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa reported that a total of 127,859 acres had been set aside for industrial use nationwide, in pursuit of the goal of reaching middle-income economy.
• Tanzania Industrial Land Reservation Policy The directive builds on a long-standing national policy of reserving land for industrial investment as part of Tanzania’s industrialisation drive.
• Gazetted, planned industrial sites give investors legal certainty and help pre-empt conflicts between residential, agricultural and industrial land uses, an issue the Ministry has also addressed through the National.
• Akwilapo said proper land use planning is essential to attracting investors because an investor needs an area that has been set aside and formally recognized for the intended use before starting operations.