| Author | Jayaratne, K. A. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.HS-82-09 |
| Subject(s) | Real estate development--Sri Lanka--Colombo
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | This study is aimed at identifying and assessing the role of the land market in the conversion of land for new housing development in the Colombo urban fringe.
The subdivision of rural land for housing development in the urban fringe areas of Colombo is a simple process in which the landholdings near to existing roads are subdivided into streets and building plots which are sold to individual buyers. No public utility network services are installed, and no housing developers operate to construct houses for sale, so that only three or four decision making participants are involved.
The present study was focussed on the of these participants, the rural land owners and the subdivides, and it investigated their activities in Mahara Village Council area as selected case study area. The land owners were studies by way of a sample survey of 40 of those owning 4000 sq. meters (1 acre approx.) of more of land. The study of the land subdivides was mainly by examining in detail seven private and three government land subdivision projects in the case study area. It was also able to draw on an earlier survey of land subdivision in the Colombo Metropolitan Region over the 20 year period 1959-1978.
The main finding from the landowner survey was that they were a mixture of retired persons, farmers and urban workers, most of whom had inherited (rather than purchased) their land, and that while they were all aware of the market value of their land for subdivision, most (75%) of them said they intended to divide their land to share it between their children. The study of the land subdivision projects revealed that they were all small projects of under 5 ha., and the private sector projects provided unserviced plots of 400 to 500 m2 in area at prices that only the top 20% of households by income could afford.
A number of recommendation are made towards increasing the supply of building plots and their quality and affordability. |
| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Human Settlement (HS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Archer, Raymon W.
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| Examination Committee(s) | Kammeier, Hans Detlef ;Angel, Shlomo
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| Scholarship Donor(s) | Carl Duisberg-Gesellschaft e.v,
The Federal Republic of Germany |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1982 |