{"id":39770,"date":"2019-08-01T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/government-sets-new-acceptable-standards-for-plot\/"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:24:57","slug":"government-sets-new-acceptable-standards-for-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/government-sets-new-acceptable-standards-for-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Government sets new acceptable standards for plot sizes before authorizing construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The order stipulates that the standard size of a plot of land for a residential house must be 300 square meters (m\u00b2) while the plot of land for construction of a 15-floor building should not go beyond one hectare. <\/p>\n

Under the new order, a plot of land for the construction of a nursery school must not exceed 700 m\u00b2; 1.5 hectare has been designated for a primary school, 2.5 hectares for secondary school, 2.8 hectares for a complex school combining nursery, primary and secondary schools, 5 hectares for vocational training schools while the plot of land designated for the university buildings must not exceed 6 hectares. <\/p>\n

Among others, the plot of land for 500 m\u00b2 is designated for the premises of a health post, 1 hectare for a health center while private and public hospitals must not go beyond 5 hectares.<\/p>\n

Churches premises are limited to 5000 m\u00b2 while the plot of land for construction of commercial buildings will depend on cities master plan and other laws granting land sharing. <\/p>\n

{{Exception for major investors }} <\/p>\n

The Minister for Infrastructure, Claver Gatete said an exception was set for large investors coming to settle in the country with great activities promising to spur national development. <\/p>\n

Investors will be allowed a larger size of land depending on the value of their investment in the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe need magnates especially coming in to support us. For instance, Howard Buffet developed buildings on over 1200 hectares in Nasho [\u2026] set up livestock and crop growing zone, equipped Rwandans with outstanding skills and build roads. Such a person needs a large plot of land to settle in,\u201d said Minister Gatete. <\/p>\n

An investor bringing in activities with the value between Rwf 500 and 800 million will be allowed to build on a half-hectare land in rural areas under the new ministerial order. <\/p>\n

When the investment ranges between Rwf 800 million and Rwf 1 billion, he\/she will be allowed to build on a hectare and 1.5 hectare when the investment is over Rwf 1 billion in rural areas. <\/p>\n

An entrepreneur with investment worth between Rwf 1 and 1.2 billion will be accorded a half hectare to set up in town. <\/p>\n

The investment between Rwf 1.2 and 1.5 billion will be accorded to build on a hectare while an investor whose activities are valued at over Rwf 1.5 billion will be given 1.5 hectares in town. <\/p>\n

Minister Gatete said that giving opportunities such investors are meant to encourage more to bring their activities contributing to national development and valuing their investment. <\/p>\n

He reiterated that it is a better way of enhancing the effective management of land and exploitation. <\/p>\n

Gatete revealed that setting the standard size of the land will also help settlement policy where they can build multi-floored buildings accommodating a large number of people than raising scattered stand-alone buildings. <\/p>\n

The new ministerial order is based on a similar order released in 2016 concerning urban planning.<\/p>\n

\"Gatete<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ministerial order determining the standard size of a plot of land meant for the construction of buildings is among resolutions of the cabinet meeting held on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/39770","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39770"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39770"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}