| dc.description.abstract | This study was conducted in order to make an assessment of the nature, spatial distribution and
intensity of illegal developments, causes of illegal developments, their impacts on the urban
setting, authority (council), and the possible strategies to minimize these illegal developments
within Kyegegwa ward, Kyegegwa town Council.
While in the field, various methods of data collection such as in-depth interview, administered
questionnaire, documentary review and sampling method were applied. Observation was used in
this research and the researcher remained a passive observer, observing activities to draw
conclusions, this technique helped to identify the level of conformity of the proposed Physical
Development Plan to the current activities in the ward. Interview method was mainly used to
collect qualitative data to a larger extent as it involved discussion of ideas and interactions between
the researcher and a selected person(s) using open ended questions to gain a deep insight into the
topic. This engagement was a person-to-person interaction and with this method the researcher
was able to find out the percentage of landowners with development permission and those without,
causes of the illegal developments and additional information using this method and the last
method used was the questionnaire method which involved the use of pre-determined questions
printed on papers which was delivered in person to the respondents to be answered in writing for
example questions to be asked included; Do you have a development permit, if no then why?, Do
you have a building plan, if no then why? among other questions.
It was the above methods that were used to collect data while in the field which data was analyzed
to come up with the findings and then a conclusion and recommendations were reached at.
This study was also presented in five chapters, chapter one covered introduction of the study,
chapter two, literature review, chapter three, research methodology, chapter four, presentation and
discussion of the research findings and chapter five, the conclusions and recommendations | en_US |
