Palaces in the Wilderness

The aerial view of any properly planned city should be pleasing to the eyes. But in the newly built areas at Leicester, in Freetown, no such planning for roads and other infrastructure is taking place. People just acquire their land and build houses at random. This makes it unsightly, particularly from the air. Also, no consideration is given to access, availability or provision of electricity and water supply in the vast area. Most of those newly built houses have no pipe-borne water supply or electrical lines. They depend on water trucks to supply them water and private generators to provide electricity. The area is so unplanned that direct vehicular access to some of the houses is a challenge as the occupants would have to circumvent other houses and bush to get to their houses which may seem so close to the main street but yet not easily accessible. The houses are like palaces in the wilderness.