LUPMIS is a database system that provides information to metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs), academia, professional bodies, and the public to effectively engage in their spatial planning and development management.

During an engagement with stakeholders across the country on Wednesday, Mr Chapman Owusu-Sekyere, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, LUSPA, said the redevelopment had become imperative because the current LUPMIS had inadequate storage capacity to handle the huge datasets generated by the MMDAS.
He said one of the most informative aspects of the initiative was to enhance the redevelopment process of permitting systems within the MMDAS.

'When one applies for a development permit for the development of a residential or commercial building, it takes years for one to get his permit but with the redevelopment of LUPMIS and the fact that our law says it should not go beyond 30 days, the person should get the permit," Mr Owusu-Sekyere said.

The redevelopment, which is being sponsored by the GIZ Paired Programme and REACH Project, will give LUPMIS a central storage system to store data in a structured manner, which would be available to the generators of the data and the public.

LUPMIS, in its current state, is not web-based, however, it is being redeveloped by GOPA Consultancy into a web-based and would be capable of accessing other relevant global datasets for spatial planning.

Mr Ekkehardf Roth, Team Lead for the redevelopment, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the new LUPMIS would be multi purposeful with more technological innovations where other agencies could use it as guidelines for development processes.