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Survey Plan Registration
A licensed surveyor lodges a client's survey plan with the Surveyor-General's office to be checked, charted and given a registered plan number.
Who can apply
Licensed surveyors registered with the Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON) and enrolled with the Surveyor-General.
- I am the licensed surveyor who prepared the plan
What you receive
A registered plan number (AB/LSP/…) that any land title application can cite, verifiable by anyone at /verify/plan.
What you will need
Your application asks only for what your answers call for. Clear scans or photographs (PDF, JPG or PNG) are fine.
- The signed and sealed survey plan (PDF) Required
- The survey drawing (DWG, or a PDF export of it) (optional)
- Computation sheet (coordinates and areas) Required
- Client's letter of instruction Required
- Current practising licence (optional)
- Survey description or field notes (optional)
- Photographs of the newly emplaced beacons Required If: The beacons on the ground is Newly emplaced for this survey
- Photographs of the beacons (optional) If: The beacons on the ground is Existing beacons, found intact or Existing, some found missing and replaced
- Copy of the plan being re-surveyed Required If: Purpose of the survey is Re-survey of an existing plan
How it is processed
- Surveyor-General intake
- Computation check
- Charting
- BIR assessment and payment
- Registration
Each stage is decided by the officer responsible for it, and approvals by officers who took no other part in the case. You are told at every step.
What is checked
- Your licence on the register of licensed surveyors
- The beacons: area against the plan, the boundary closing on itself, the LGA
- Overlap with plans already lodged or registered
- Beacon numbers already used elsewhere