waldigit:
This is a typical site on marshy rapid slope.

waldigit:

Steep Slope Site

Most of environmental and land use literature do not favour the formal development of steep slopes for building purpose. The reasons range, from the cost implication of grading, basement construction and filling and backfilling and foundation reinforcements, to environmental ones such as risk of flood due to excessive run off and erosion, differential settlements, and land slide. Also needed to consider is the provision and operating cost of building service facilities.

However, such site could be put to informal recreation use such as park, gardens and event centers.

Irregular and rugged sites or areas
Irregular and rugged site for residential, commercial, and industrial building purposes has high cost implication for grading, transportation and building service facilities.





However, the side can be put to recreation use such as children play area, picnic and vacation use with a considerable lower cost implication.

Derelict Quarried Lands
These are former sites for stones, gravels, sand and clay extraction. If these sites lie within an altitude of about 50 meter and above, they constitute a very good site for construction, because of their firm surface structure. They may save the cost of excavation of foundation trenches. However, if they lie within very low altitude and very low in relation to the adjoining road level, it may bring an implication for cost of backfilling in foundation as well as filling of the outdoor area of the building. Another alternative to consider is to put to recreation use in terms of parks, gardens and picnic Centre. Plant treatment with trees, shrubs and grass can produce desirable aesthetic experience.

Rock Outcrops
Physical Planning process where it is effective will most of the time tend to reserve the site for recreation purpose through a concept known as conservation. However, where the permit is given for building purposes, one may consider recreation on one hand and on the other hand the irregular hard surface may make outdoor activity for residential building difficult if not impossible. Such site may need special attention of a team construction expert’s attention.

If the interest is build a spectacular resort Centre such hotel and club house, well, it may worth its weight in gold.




Sand Tracts

Sand and gravel tracts, particularly the coastal ones, are popular playgrounds for both the young and the adults. They are natural bases for water sports because usually along such are water bodies as large as rivers, lagoons, lakes and sea. Building on such sites has implications of technology and cost. The foundation choice is usually reinforced raft, ground beam and pile. This is due to incidence of settlement and low bearing capacity.
Wetlands

This category includes marshes, swamps and bogs and make up ecological habitats for special species of plant and animal. A lot of relationship exists between the soils, hydrology, micro-climate and topography. The altitude in the zone is low and close to the underground water aquifers.

In the country side, the wetlands are usually left in their wild natural states. However, in the urbanized city any of the following can be done
•They can be dredged to produce artificial ponds or lakes.
•They can be dammed if they are elongated to produce ponds and lakes.
•They can be used to enhance accessibility
•For aesthetic purposes their fringes may be paved and given geometrical treatment.
•They can be drained and filled for recreational residential and industrial purposes.
In any way, it has to be out in mind that, construction implications on the site may include high cost of choosing the right technology.

Flood Plains

They are natural channel of floodways wherein both natural and artificially generated run off from city flows under the force of gravity. Floods are natural features of river valleys, where implication of destruction to life and property could be tremendous.



Physical Planning process prefer that the flood plains should not be built upon but conserved as open spaces to store flood waters and minimize runoff during heavy rains. The rational consideration lies in the positive correlation between urban development ad runoff. The process of urban development, see to the removal of vegetation cover of the landscape with the replacement by man-made impervious surfaces like concrete surfaces, building roofs, tarred and untarred roads. The progressive creation of these impervious surfaces through the urbanization as a process is what generate flood of increasing magnitude.

Location Accessibility
This is not referring to geo-reference system, but relative positional relationship between a parcel of land, its immediate environment and other zone in the town. Profitability as an economic factor is a function of accessibility and in turn is major factor that determine value the market impose on any piece of land.
Accessibility brought about by spatial proximity and efficiency in transportation system can liberalize development, open up new area and thereby activate the potential developmental value, hitherto latent in any parcel of land.
It now goes that the grater the accessibility the more profitable a location becomes.


Legal Instrument (Land Title)

Land tenure systems are social system of values and laws relating man and its physical environment in matters bordering ownership rights on land. They are subject to changes and are transmitted from generation to generation with varying modifications.



From time immemorial, man has exercised right of ownership, usage, control and management over land in several ways. Legislations or statutes (laws) had often been passed or enacted to regulate these rights exercised over land, these laws have been remodeled to be to contain and react to the emerging need and challenge of time.

A popular fashion of such ownership right system can be freehold-where there is unlimited is no expiration for ownership right, while another is lease hold- where an expiry date is set for the ownership right. The type of ownership right subsisting on the land is critical factor to be put into consideration when developmental consideration is at stake on landed property.

Land title in modern economy has become a means of accessing financial facilities such as long term loan.

Development (Land Use)

Development in a broad term is the situation when the desired state of the land is achieved as a result of applying the rational decision making process of man to change the natural state and intensity of use to which a site is put.
It encompasses every aspect of built environment, so it can be either for public interest or for private interest. It can be residential, commercial, industrial, and recreational.


Whichever is the choice of development, it is a critical factor to consider when making developmental proposal in the field of real estate.

spotlessduke:
all this

thagift:
seun what's the meaning of this? and why no declaration for Christians?

mentorandfriend:
Open a thread.

spotlessduke:
all this

contactmorak:
you seem to know a lot about lands, where is the best place to buy a land around 200k-500k in Lagos. I have someone who really wish to buy but confused

100Cents:
Practical is Practical.

Theory is Theory.

waldigit:


Value of land is subjective. However, there is what we call Market Value, which is a reflection of general opinion of all stake holders on opinion of value. Whichever value you get from market make sure you get development implications on such land before you ventured into committing your resources on it.

waldigit:


Value of land is subjective. However, there is what we call Market Value, which is a reflection of general opinion of all stake holders on opinion of value. Whichever value you get from market make sure you get development implications on such land before you ventured into committing your resources on it.
For now, for that range of price in Lagos, you can get land that is close to development viability along Ikorodu axis towards Ijede zone. Hope this helps.