Land Use Planning in Malaysia

Adibah Amira Binti Roslan Salasiah Binti Mohamad

Prepared By:

Prepared For: Pn. Zarina Isnin

Process of organizing, managing and regulating

the uses of lands and their resources.

To meet the socio-economic development of the

country.

To meet the people’s needs in the most efficient

and sustainable way.

A vision for the future possibilities of development in

neighborhoods, districts, cities, or any defined

planning area.

Population continues to growth.

Limited land available.

A land use planning should not only follow the market trends,

but must work through it and assist the market to become

more efficient.

To facilitate the economic growth.

Helps in shaping the market behavior.

Enhance equity, efficiency and sustainability of environment.

How an institution organize and interact one another in time and space.

A process to converts and adapt for use of the activity system.

Provide niche for human existence and habitat.

Influenced by the provisions of current planning legislations adopted by

each country. (Malaysia – Act 172 Town and Country Planning Act)

As stated in the Act 172, the land use implementation in Malaysia were

relying with this two system:-

A basic for future development.

• Act as a control tools.

• To ensure the land use development is in line with the policy and

proposal formulated by the development plan.

Was dividing into three levels which is National Level, State Level and

the Local Level.

As a tool of urban

planning used

The control by authority

of the use of land, and

of the buildings thereon

Regulate the use, form,

design and compatibility of

development Usually enacted as a

by-law with the

respective procedures

Eg: Residential,

commercial,

industrial, agricultural,

Institutional

RESIDENTIAL

Includes:

Single Family Residences (SFR),

Suburban Homestead (SH), or

any number of other designation

Can cover issues such as whether

mobile homes can be placed on:

property, and

the number of structures allowed on

certain property.

COMMERCIAL

As well as vacant land that has the

potential for development into these

types of buildings -- can all be zoned

as commercial.

Almost any kind of real estate (other

than single-family home and single-

family lots) can be considered

commercial real estate.

INDUSTRIAL

Can be specific to the type of

business

Provides for manufacturing industry,

the storage and distribution of goods

and associated uses in a manner

that does not affect the safety and

amenity of local communities.

INSTITUTIONAL

Means a training centre or a public

school, separate school, private

school, university, or community

college

AGRICULTURAL

Refers to designations made by

local jurisdictions that are intended

to protect farmland and farming

activities from incompatible

nonfarm uses.

Specialized form of zoning used by

communities that seek to preserve

their agricultural base

Residential

Commercial

Open Spaces

Squatters

Undeveloped Land

Institutional

Industrial

(1984 – 2000)