7 Development Plan · 7.2 Preparing a development plan

7.2.3 Estimating housing demand, land requirement and water supply from projected population

Once the horizon-year population is fixed, planners convert it into households and dwelling units, then into hectares of land at chosen densities, and into litres of water a day at standard per capita norms.

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Key terms

  • housing demand
  • housing need
  • household size
  • backlog
  • congestion
  • obsolescence
  • vacancy
  • gross density
  • net density
  • tenement density
  • land requirement
  • water demand
  • lpcd
  • MLD
  • CPHEEO
  • fire demand
  • sewage generation

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