The Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Act and respective States urban and regional planning and development laws as domesticated are quite explicit on space standards, parking space, greenery and setbacks for different land uses and heights of the building.
There are so many of such cases in Ikeja, Mushin, Surulere and other parts of the state, where there are no parking spaces forcing motorists and residents to park on the roads even in private estates. According to him, this requirement must be met before a development permit is granted, however often times the space reserved for parking are converted to other uses after the development is completed
Ogunleye regretted that in Nigeria, “we are yet to properly integrate ours. More importantly, the ways our cities have evolved makes parking policies, plans and regulations difficult to operationalise or even enforce.” In other words, a developer or property owner can provide more. But you now have instances in which many residential properties have been turned into commercial uses”, he said.