{"id":37374,"date":"2018-04-26T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cok-introduces-new-reforms-in-construction\/"},"modified":"2018-04-28T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T09:58:02","slug":"cok-introduces-new-reforms-in-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cok-introduces-new-reforms-in-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"CoK introduces new reforms in construction permits acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reforms include using risk based approach in environmental impact assessment and removal of need for geotechnical studies for some projects and removal of need for topographic survey. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a press conference the Acting Mayor of City of Kigali, Parfait Busabizwa said that the reforms will help reduce the procedure an investor goes through to acquire a construction permit as well as the days it takes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese reforms will help reduce the procedures an investor goes through to acquire a construction permit from 15 to only seven, reduce the number of days to acquire a construction permit from 113 to 55 days and also reduce all other associated costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>{{A look into the reforms}}<\/p>\n<p>The reforms include a risk-based approach in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of projects instead of applying it to all construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>The exemption of specific construction projects (Category one according to building code like single family houses and warehouses) from carrying out geotechnical studies before construction commences.<\/p>\n<p>Construction projects will no longer be required to notify One Stop Centre of commencement of work after obtaining construction permit.<\/p>\n<p>Topographic Survey is not Mandatory requirement for obtaining a construction permit in areas where Masterplan features are available online.<\/p>\n<p>It will only take three days to obtain an occupation permit and a freehold land title when requested by licensed firm.<\/p>\n<p>Busabizwa said that the implementation of new reforms will start by next month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24954 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_w_agateganyo_w_umujyi_wa_kigali_busabizwa_parfait-c7152.jpg\" alt=\"The Acting Mayor of City of Kigali, Parfait Busabizwa speaks in a press conference \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Kigali (CoK) has introduced new reforms in acquisition of construction permits in Kigali City, a move which aims to attract investors by cutting days and cost the process used to take. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37374"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37374"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}