Development control information system city planning & architecture department Nairobi City Council

Abstract

Nairobi city council is a local government authority, which is in charge of managing the city of Nairobi. Among management tasks undertaken by the city council is the one of control of developments whose aim is to ensure that buildings put up in the city conforms to the standards stipulated in both the city by-laws and in the local government act cap 265 of the laws of Kenya. The development control section in the department of city planning and architecture is the one in charge of control of developments. The objective of this project is to develop an information system for the section which aims to improve the efficiency and reliability of the development control data and information storage and it's subsequent retrieval which lacks with the manual system currently in use. The project covers analysis of the current system and the subsequent design and implementation of the prototype. The software used for the system development is Microsoft access for the development of the database, visual basic version 6 for the development of the system user interface and Ms-word for the system documentation.