Importance of Good Layouts for Settlements

Good layout is important in every community. This includes:

• It makes movement easy: When settlement has a good layout, it makes movement very easy, it prevents floods due to the presence of gutters and the spaces in their buildings.

• It improves sanitation: Settlements with good layouts are well-planned. They have good roads, proper sewage system, proper dumping sites etc. These promotes sanitation at such settlements.

• It makes settlements beautiful:
Settlements with good layout are spacious and well-planned. It is very easy to identify places in such areas. These settlements are very beautiful due to how the buildings are arranged.

•It reduces overcrowding: Good layouts reduce overcrowding. Buildings are given permit before they can be built. This permit is given in order to check places where buildings are put-up and this promotes good layout. Buildings in such settlements are monitored by town planners, they also demolish houses built in unauthorised locations