British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 784. Chapter XVIII: Town Planning and The Problem of Housing : Section 1: Town Planning And Building Control : (c) The Town Planning Department

CHAPTER XVIII.

(b) A Local Commission with jurisdiction over a special town planning area which does not include any part of a municipal area but does include the area of a local council. Such Local Commission is composed of seven persons nominated, or selected from a panel nominated, by the District Commission; at least two of these persons must, in accordance with the Ordinance, be persons not being officers of the Government of Palestine. The District Commission also nominates the Chairman who is invariably an Assistant District Commissioner; the Town Planning Adviser or his representative is always a member of such Commission; the other members of the Commission include members of the local council. The executive work of building control is carried out by the local council staff.

(c) A Local Commission for each of the six regional town planning areas. These Commissions are composed as for (b) above, with the exception that the unofficial members do not necessarily include members of local councils. The executive work is carried out by the staff of the Government Department of Town Planning.

9. The numbers of Local Commissions of each type within each District are as follows :-

(a) (b) (c) (d)
District Municipal Local Council Regional Total
area. area. area.
Gaza 4 1 1 6
Lydda 5 7 1 13
Jerusalem 5 2 1 8
Haifa 2 2 1 5
Samaria s 2 1 6
Galilee 5 2 I 8
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Totals 24 16 6 46

A complete list of town planning areas with references to the Orders by which they were declared is contained in the Second Schedule to the Town and Country Planning and Building Bill.*

(c) The Town Planning Department.

10. The work of the Town Planning Department is controlled by the Town Planning Adviser and is divided into four main groups:-
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* Palestine Gazette No. 1431 or 13.8.45, Page 948.

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