Analysis of Residents’ Compliance with Development Control Regulations in The Different Residential Zones in Enugu Urban, South-East, Nigeria

In the recent past, most studies done on residents’ compliance to development control regulations and laws has concentrated in the western region of Nigeria and this have been discussed on the aggregate perspective without considering the differential influence of the diverse residential zones in the city under review. The need to give different residential zone analysis of compliance to development control regulation by residents would give a more robust and acceptance analysis and this has been lacking in the body of literature in Nigeria and in African sub-sahara region at large. This study therefore determined the residents’ compliance with development control regulations in the different residential zones in Enugu urban with a view to evolving policies for sustainable urban land use control and management in Enugu. The data were derived from a questionnaire survey of 400 developers and analyzed using descriptive and principal component analyses. Multi-stage sampling techniques was employed in the study. The study area was clustered into three residential zones (traditional/ core, sub- urban and planned area). Then simple random sample techniques was used to select the neighbourhoods from each of these zones: 2, 3 and 3 neighbourhoods were selected from traditional, sub urban and planned residential zones respectively. The results revealed that Four predominant factors influenced residents’ compliance to development control regulation in the planned residential zones, five factors influenced residents’ compliance to development control regulation in the sub urban residential zones while seven influenced residents’ compliance to development control regulation in the traditional residential zones. This understanding of the factors that influence public participation in urban planning projects, urban planners can come up with remedial approaches which would ensure that their future planning activities are more inclusive, pro-poor and hence sustainable.