Lagos Govt Orders Suspension Of New Lekki Gardens Estate

This was according to General Manager of the Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority, LASPPPA, Remi Oni-Orisan, who accused the company of encroaching on areas reserved for ‘green environment’ in Olokonla area of Lekki.

He further accused Lekki Gardens of erecting beyond the floors of buildings approved by LASPPPA and the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA).

“There is a lot of infractions in the estate. For instance, where you are supposed to have a block of one unit, there are more than that and where there shouldn’t be anything to at all, they have erected block of flats. From what we saw on the site, what Lekki Gardens is building is over building and over density but before we can reach a conclusion, we have to match what was built in comparison with what was actually approved for the firm.

“We have given the ‘stop work’ order to the firm on its ongoing structures so as not to compound to the problems identified on the site. Thereafter the management of the Lekki Gardens will be invited with the resident associations in the state. They have been ordered to stop work pending investigations,’ he said.

“The above two floors structures in the estate were not approved. Four floors building was never approved in the layout but what you have their now is four and five floors without approval. Some of the green areas have been converted to residential areas without approval. We also notice factory within the estate and factory cannot be in the residential area.”

While warning real estate developers in Lekki to regularise their papers against the state government’s clamp down, Oni-Orisan further said that both LASPPPA and LASBCA “are out again on extensive monitoring and enforcement of the law along the axis with a view to ensuring safety of the unsuspecting tenants and buyers of the houses on the axis”.

“We will not stop until people start to comply due to issue of safety concern, the need to comply with the approval. There must not be departure at all on the issue of approved plan and what is being erected. If you are departing at all, you revert to the government to help you take a look at the plan whether it is approvable but you cannot single-handedly change approved lay out,” he said.