Blessings Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent

CHITUNGWIZA Municipality and Manyame Rural District Council have started repossessing commercial, industrial and residential stands that have not been developed for years.

Some of the stands were issued over a decade ago with no development having taken place, contrary to their policy that they should be developed within a period of five years or less.

In a statement, Chitungwiza town clerk Mr George Makunde said the council would repossess 24 industrial stands in Masanga, Zengeza and 18 at town house.

“Notice is hereby given, in terms of section 152 (2) of the Urban Council Act (Chapter 29:15) that it is the intention of the Municipality of Chitungwiza to repossess and relocate the industrial stands and commercial stands listed to other applicants on its waiting list following that the original allottee, have been found to be in breach of the municipality’s conditions of allocation in one way or the another,” reads the statement.

Manyame RDC chief executive Mrs Farirai Guta said they were set to repossess low, medium and high density residential stands in Beatrice and Dema that were availed sometime between 2002 and 2003.

Mrs Guta declined to disclose the number of stands to be repossessed.

“This is a routine exercise, we repossess stands time and again, soon we will be issuing a notice of our intention to repossess stands around the district,” she said.

“The stands comprise of Beatrice high density suburbs, Dema medium suburbs and New Retreat low density areas in Beatrice.”

Mrs Guta said the council had been lenient with residents since they were supposed to develop their stands within five years.

“The standard procedure is that after every four years we should be checking on progress and then repossess stands of those who would have failed,” she said.

“We had been very lenient as some of the stands were availed around early 2000.”

Mrs Guta said the repossessing process was at different stages.

“The process is varying, in some areas we are still identifying undeveloped pieces of land and at the same time those we have already identified we are engaging the owners,” she said.

“Our call is that those who have undeveloped stands they should approach us and we map a way forward.”

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