The SEDC says it has contacted the government Department of Lands over the offices in premises that have been illegally converted from light industrial use to commercial use. Some of these changes were done in properties whose owners had unsuccessfully applied for change of land use. The GICP is a light industrial area. Though mistaken to be part of Gaborone, GICP is in the South East District and lies on land owned by the Catholic Church.
In September 2010, the SEDC tasked its Town and Country Planning Board to carry out an investigative study of land use problems at GICP. The audit found that the subdivision and industrial land use zoning of GICP was approved by the Town and Country Planning Board in 1997. Since then, many plots in GICP have significantly undergone varying degrees of 'change of land use' from industrial to commercial through encroachment of mainly distributor offices. The audit revealed that some property owners at GICP had in the past made attempts to change land use from industrial to commercial for purposes of operating commercial offices but these were rejected.
