Open AccessPOWERS OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITY IN REGULATING LAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROL: WHITHER CONTROL
Author(s) -
Ainul Jaria Maidin,
Bashiran Begum Mobarak Ali
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
planning malaysia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.232
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1675-6215
pISSN - 0128-0945
DOI - 10.21837/pm.v7i1.75
Subject(s) - control (management) , local planning , business , local authority , land use planning , power (physics) , regulatory authority , environmental planning , public administration , land use , political science , economics , geography , management , engineering , civil engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Land use planning in Malaysia as regulated by the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 ("Act 172") vests in the local authorities' wide powers and responsibility for managing and carrying on the daily adininistration of land use planning decision making and developrnent control regime. This article examines the powers of the local authority in regulating land planning and development control and the power of the courts in exercising control over the exercise of the discretionary powers of the local authority.