Design standards and code enforcement in low cost housing

Abstract

Design Standards are universally employed in development control sections of any local authority. they are also universally disliked by architects and developers, generally through a belief that these 'standards are employed too rigidly by local authority officials. I 'believe that in Kenila at present we are suffering from a mutual lack of understanding between those working in the field of Low cost housing generally and the officials whose duty it is to enforce the standards, policies, by Laws and building codes that control low cost housing development. my intention is to examine and explain some of the reasons for this mutual suspicion and tentatively suggest a