City Hall has partnered with two Chinese companies to put up 55,000 apartments in Eastlands in an ambitious housing project starting February next year.
The project will see houses that are as old as 60 years in Kaloleni, Shauri Moyo, Makongeni, Ziwani and Pangani estates demolished.
However Nairobi County executive for planning and housing Tom Odongo said the county had conducted consultations across board.
Nairobi’s Eastlands residents are threatening to stop demolition of their houses for the proposed Integrated Urban Development Master Plan for Nairobi County.
Kaloleni Estates Residents Association (Kera) says it learnt about the plan to revamp the Eastlands area over the media and will oppose the works for being left out during conceptualisation.
Kera chairman Ezra Olack said the association would go to court to stop any efforts to demolish old houses to pave way for high-rise buildings.
“We represent over 15,000 residents, none of whose opinions were sought. The County government must answer to the people who will be directly affected, who pay rent to it,” he stated.
“As residents of Kaloleni Estate we have never been consulted or engaged in the development of the master plan and no civic education has been conducted as required by law,” said Mr Olack.
He said they had sought answers from Nairobi County over a billboard at Burma market advertising high-rise houses at the estate but a response had not been forth coming.
City Hall has partnered with two Chinese companies to put up 55,000 apartments in Eastlands in an ambitious housing project starting February next year. The project will see houses that are as old as 60 years in Kaloleni, Shauri Moyo, Makongeni, Ziwani and Pangani estates demolished.
Mr Olack said the association was not against the plan but the way it was conducted. The residents, he said wanted historical aspects of the area maintained, which did not feature on the plan.
However Nairobi County executive for planning and housing Tom Odongo said the county had conducted consultations across board.
“We conducted structured consultations to which estates were not units of reference and there is evidence to that,” he said.
Mr Odongo urged the residents to embrace the master plan. “The plan will be validated by the County Assembly and Nairobians and we believe we are on track and will not allow conservative minds to distract us,” he said.
A planning officer from the County government, Rose Muema, had said that the team held 23 consultative meetings in sub-counties. A further 64 meetings were conducted in wards, including focus group meetings.
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