Togo elaborates new pricing for foundation and soil studies
Monday, 29 January 2018 09:24 
(Togo First) - A new pricing has been elaborated for foundation and soil studies. This has been revealed by a memorandum of the laboratoire national du bâtiment et des travaux publics (LNBTP), the public autonomous institution which controls the quality of infrastructures under construction in Togo.
According to the institution, the new pricing plan is aimed at “encouraging citizens to build on good soils, soils that meet current security standards”.
Its goal is to facilitate the installation of economic operators and local households. The new pricing plan is one of the vast reforms adopted by Togo’s government to improve and hasten the procedures to obtain building permits.
One of the most important reduction is the fees for the study of soils for the construction of a 1,300 m2 warehouse. Indeed, the fee was CFA900,000 but now it is CFA350,000 which represents a 60% reduction.
Furthermore, for soil studies for the construction of a ground floor type of household whose area is below 300 m2, the fee is CFA250,000. For this type of household whose area is comprised between 300 m2 and 600 m2, it is CFA300,000.
The fee for one or two-storey, it is set to CFA500,000. “Buildings of more than two-storeys and industrial type building will be studied on a case-by-case basis according to the norm NF P 94-500” which allows to set the claims among other things, the institutions explained.
Togo wants to become an economic hub in the sub-region. In that regard, government will put in place, as of this quarter, many reforms which are aimed at accelerating development of this African country whose private sector faces many challenges, and proceed to the automation of the issuance of urban planning deeds mainly. So, town hall and prefecture will be able to deliver first-class permits.
Fiacre E. Kakpo
