Vuda - Sabeto Advisory Plan

Introduction:

The purpose of this Advisory Plan is to guide future development within the area that encompasses Saweni, Vuda, and Lomolomo through to the Sabeto River.  The study area lies within Ba Province in the Western Division.

The study area was selected due to the trend of fewer farming practices (particularly sugar cane) and increasing demand for tourist and residential development.  Boundaries of the study area follow the enumeration area boundaries used by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics.

The study area falls within the Lautoka Rural Local Authority and currently is not subject to any form of land-use guidance plan.  The land within the study area is generally zoned for rural/agriculture use.  However, throughout the area individual sites have been approved for other uses including commercial, industrial, tourism and residential developments.

The Advisory Plan will aim for orderly and sustainable development by delineating appropriate land-uses for Crown and freehold land and providing policies to control future development across the entire study area.

The Town Planning Act defines areas which have been declared by the Director of Town and Country Planning as ‘Town Planning Areas’.  These areas are generally urbanised townships where development is controlled by Town Planning Schemes, which set out appropriate zones and policies.  However, an Advisory Plan guides development for land that falls outside of declared Town Planning Areas (rural areas), and therefore it has no statutory status under the Act – hence its ‘advisory’ role.

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