ABSTRACT
 An assessment of Land use Allocation is a topic chosen from the Estate management field. The research was conducted mainly to assessed the positive and negatives effects on land use in a tertiary institution. For effective research on this topic “An assessment of Land Use Allocation” both primary and secondary data were used to elicit information from sample studied, the primary source data were response from the personal interview conducted, questionnaire and physical observations while secondary source come from textbooks, international and journals and other internet publications.
 
 Twenty-five persons were interviewed and one hundred questionnaires were distributed as the sample of staff and students of Dorben polytechnic. The data analysis was based on the response gathered from the questionnaire distributed to both the staff and students of Dorben Polytechnic, (one hundred). The major findings are follows. 
 
 An assessment of land use Allocation is Aids to correct mismanagent or poor planning of a particular institution, region or community. Also an assessment of land use allocation gives go ahead order to any individual or organization that is going into property development to make judicious use of forecasting and planning as a way of success in any development process. Poor forecasting attitude, inadequate planning to develop a landed property, problems of in-experience or unqualified professionals in the built environment as a result of making use of sub-standard building materials instead of standard building materials.
 
 Problem of land use allocation is also noticed to be an issued of planning on daily basis instead of medium term and long term planning and forecasting basis. Problem arises, because management “organization believed that planning is not important, even if they believed that it is inborn endowed from birth and inclination.
 The project has five chapters, chapter one contains introduction, statement of problem, aims and objective of the study, and definition of important terms. Chapter two is literature review. Hence related literatures were carefully reviewed. Chapter three talks about method and means by which data were collected, chapter four deals with presentation, analysis of data and discussion of findings, and finally chapter five deals with summary of findings, conclusion and recommendation. In summary recommendation state that he who fails to plan, plan to fail, and as human heart cannot breath without air, so also property development will not work without planning. 
 
       
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 CONTENTS PAGE
 Cover pagei
 Title page iii
 Certification iiii
 Dedicationiv
 Acknowledgement v
 Abstractvi
 List of tablevii
 List of figuresviii
 
 CHAPTER ONE
 1.0INTRODUCTION 
 1.1Background to the study
 1.2Statement of research problem
 1.3Aims and objective
 1.4Limitation of study
 1.5Scope of study
 1.6Significance of study
 1.7Historical background of study
 1.8Definition of key terms  
 
 CHAPTER TWO
 2.0LITERATURE REVIEW
 
 CHAPTER TWO
 3.0RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 
 CHAPTER FOUR
 4.1DATA REPRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION FINDING 
 
 CHAPTER FIVE
 5.2SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 Questionnaires