THE EFFECT OF COMMERCIAL LAND USE ON AND VALUE A CASE STUDY OF OGUI URBAN

ABSTRACT

Land use can be described as a way, manner or older in which land is used by people in an area for different purposes. Commercial land itself is one set aside the local authority for legal economic activities and business transactions. It account for by far the largest proportion of the total area that has more economical value.      Commercial activity is one of the indices for appraising urbanization provision of commercial land for such activities of Ogui – urban become very important as the population of Ogui urban grew and this in turn affects the value of land. This effect t of commercial land and it’s concomitant effect on the land values are the main text of this paper.  This research embodied the documentation and analysis of such relevant factors as prices of commercial lands passing in Ogui – urban respectively. Was analysed in graph form and in turn determines the effect of commercial land use on land value which is the main problem of this reseach solving. The result proved that there was a positive affect on well used and planned commercial lands and reactive effect on the unplanned. Good planning and monitoring was recommended. 
TABLE OF CONTENT   Title page  Certificate  Dedication  Acknowledgment  Abstract  Table of content  List of table  List of figure 
CHAPTER ONE  1.0Introduction  1.1Historical background  1.2Geographical problem  1.3Objectives of study  1.4Scope of study  1.5Limitation of study 
CHAPTER TWO  2.0Literature Review 2.1  Introduction  2.2What is land  2.3Land use plan n Enugu 2.4Commercial land use  2.5 Classification of commercial land use  2.6Nature of commercial land use  2.7Factors that affect land value  2.8Effect of commercial land use on land value  2.9Distinction of important terms 
CHAPTER THREE  3.0Research methodology  3.1Introduction  3.2Research design  3.3Source of data  3.4Primary source  3.5Secondary source  3.6Population and sampling size  3.7Data collection techniques  3.8Data analysis and presentation technique 
CHAPTER FOUR       4.0Data presentation and analysis  4.1Introduction  4.2Presentation  4.3Central business district  4.4Edimbug 4.5Average percentage of sampled commercial land in Ogui urban  4.6Conclusion  
CHAPTER FIVE  5.0Findings, recommendation and conclusion  5.1Findings  5.2Recommendation  5.3Conclusion  LIST OF TABLES  Table 1: Monetary value trend and sampled commercial land in the central  business district (4.03) 
Table 2: Monetary value trend on sampled commercial land in Edinburgh (4.04) 
Table 3: Recharge percentages of sampled commercial land in the Central Business District and Edinburgh in Ogui urban (4.05)       LIST OF FIGURE  Figure 1. Graphs showing the monetary value of sampled commercial lands in the central business district 
Figure 2: The land use map of Central business district of Ogui urban 
Figure 3; Graphs showing the monetary value of sampled commercial lands in Edinburgh in Ogui – Urban 
Figure 4:Proposed urban land use plan of Enugu 
Figure 5: Map showing the central business district in Enugu