PlanningGazette notice
Gazette Notice No. 6688 of 2025
National Environment Management Authority invites public comments on the proposed degazettement of Longonot A and B settlement schemes from mount Longonot National Park.
Official PDF · 2.0 MB
Whole issue, from Kenya Law. This notice starts on printed page 2316.
AI-extractedAgreement between models, not verified accuracy.
What the notice says 2
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L.R. NO. 12873/1, L.R. NO. 12873/2
Link- Parcels
- L.R. NO. 12873/1, L.R. NO. 12873/2
- Issuing authority
- National Environment Management Authority (Received the Environmental Impact Assessment Study Report)
- Proponent
- Longonot A and B Settlement Scheme
- Place
- Naivasha sub-county, mount Longonot National Park (Current ownership from which the settlement schemes are proposed to be degazetted), Longonot A (Immediately before the park main gate on either side of the road leading to the national park), Longonot B (Eastern side of the park facing Mai Mahiu town right on the boundary of the park), Mai Mahiu town
- County
- Nakuru County
- Body
- Kenya Wildlife Service (Manages mount Longonot National Park), Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Foresty (Report available for inspection)
- Inspection office
- Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Foresty, County Director of Environment, Nakuru County
- Comment recipient
- Director-General, National Environment Management Authority (Report available for inspection; receives oral or written comments)
- Comments
- 30 days, as printed
- Period start
- date of publication of this notice
- Proposed project
- degazette Longonot A and B settlement schemes each measuring 96 acres from the current ownership of mount Longonot National Park which is managed by Kenya Wildlife Service to the individual ownership by the families already living in the settlement scheme
- Project scope
- land surveying, beaconing and demarcations, land allocation to the beneficiaries and issuance of tittle deeds in Naivasha sub-county, Nakuru County
- Inspection hours
- working hours
- Report url
- www.nema.go.ke
Schedule 16 rows
| Possible Impacts | Proposed Mitigation measures |
|---|---|
| Loss of biodiversity | • Ensure that only land set aside for the resettlement is used. |
| Environmental degradation and deforestation | • Set aside 10 % of all parcels for tree cover and sensitize the occupants on importance of planting of trees. |
| Human wildlife conflict | • Ensure that the residents adopt compatible land use practices to reduce human wildlife conflict. |
| Incompatible land use practices | • Sensitize the occupants of the degazetted land not to introduce new land use practices that may be incompatible within the area. |
| Indiscriminate selling of land | • Sensitize the beneficiaries not to indiscriminately sell their land upon receiving their individual ownership documents. |
| Spread of invasive species | • Sensitize the occupiers of the scheme not to introduce alien species into the area. |
| Increased poaching | • Sensitize the residents of the schemes to respect and abide with the wildlife management and conservation laws that prohibit poaching |
| Encroachment of the park | • Sensitize the occupiers of the schemes to respect park boundaries and to not encroach in to the ark. |
| Increased waste generation | • Sensitize the occupiers to have in place an integrated waste management stem. |
| Increased vehicular pedestrian traffic | • Sensitize the occupiers to control the speed of vehicular traffic to avoid pedestrian and vehicular accidents. |
| Uncontrolled development | • Comply with the physical planning laws by ensuring all developments are a roved. |
| Blockage of wildlife dispersal area | • The occupiers only to fence off the land set aside for their occupation and leave the other area for free movement of wildlife. |
| Increased demand for energy | • Sensitize the inhabitants of the settlement scheme on the need to conserve energy in their homes, encourage them to use renewable energy such as solar. |
| Increased demand for water | • Sensitize the inhabitants of the settlement scheme to put in place water conservation measures. |
| Vegetation clearing for construction | • Ensure only spaces required for construction of homes is cleared of vegetation and efforts put in place to leave green spaces in the occupied parcels of the settlement scheme. |
| Soil erosion | • Planting of vegetation (trees, shrubs and grass on opens aces. |
Everyone named
| Signed by | Mamo B. Mamo, Director-General, National Environment Management Authority |
|---|---|
| Places 5 | Naivasha sub-county · mount Longonot National Park · Longonot A · Longonot B · Mai Mahiu town |
| Parcels 2 | L.R. NO. 12873/1 · L.R. NO. 12873/2 |
| Bodies 2 | Kenya Wildlife Service · Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Foresty |
| Inspection offices 2 | Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Foresty · County Director of Environment, Nakuru County |
| Issuing authority | National Environment Management Authority |
| Proponent | Longonot A and B Settlement Scheme |
| County | Nakuru County |
| Comment recipient | Director-General, National Environment Management Authority |
| Places 6 | NHIF Building · Ragati Road · Upper Hill · Nairobi · Popo Road · Mombasa Road |
| Law | Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act |
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- Refers to
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Cite
Kenya Gazette Notice No. 6688 of 2025, Vol. CXXVII No. 101, 23 May 2025, p. 2316.Permalink funua.com/notices/2025/6688/.
About this data
- Source
- Official PDF of Vol. CXXVII No. 101, from Kenya Law
- Extracted by
- AI models
- Model audit
- An independent model agreed with 98 to 99% of compared values for land and succession notices, 97% overall. Agreement between models, not verified accuracy.
- Review flag
- None on this notice
Filed under: Planning, 2025 · May 2025 · Vol. CXXVII No. 101