The Ministry of Lands and Physical planning seeks to plan towns and markets and to guide development and achieve orderly developments through mapping and survey of townships.
The Department also engages in adjudication of group ranches to provide security of land tenure, and to promote environmental protection to inhibit degeneration and depletion of critical resources and make settlements habitable.
This department ensures that there is efficient, affordable and reliable infrastructure for sustainable, economic growth and development through construction, modernisation, rehabilitation and effective management of all infrastructural facilities in Kajiado County.
The department is committed to providing technical services in construction and maintenance of buildings to the departments and other public bodies and seeks to be a world class provider of cost effective physical infrastructural facilities and services and to provide efficient, affordable and reliable infrastructure for sustainable, economic growth and development through construction, modernisation, rehabilitation and effective management of all infrastructural facilities in Kajiado County.
The Urban Development Department seeks to map urban boundaries, plan urban space, identify support infrastructure for urban development, present priority areas of planning and to inform future development and investments. The department seeks to create and implement plans on drainage, waste management and connectivity as well as housing.
The Department has accomplished several of its strategic targets such as the development of policy papers, mapping of boundaries and putting in place the right bodies and personnel to administer urban development activities.
The physical planning department has a role in ensuring sustainable use of resources in order to secure livelihoods in the county.
This has often been achieved through adoption of dynamic urban and rural planning strategies and tools such as: