Town and Country Planning
The Department of Town and Country Planning is responsible for the overall administration, planning and regulating of land use in Fiji through the Town Planning Act Cap. 139 and the Subdivision of Land Act Cap: 140. The key functions of DTCP are:
• Approve planning schemes and the amendments;
• Determine and decide conditional developments and relaxation on development requirements in approved town planning scheme areas;
• Determine development applications in Town Planning Areas which do not have approved Town Planning Schemes;
• Determine and decide applications on subdivision of land;
• Prepare or Revise town planning schemes at the request of the local authorities; and
• Offer physical planning advice to the overall decision making process of government and private sector.