Register as a physical planner and get a practising certificate (PPRB)
Physical Planners Registration Board · sources read 3 Oct 2026
Write to the Registrar of the Physical Planners Registration Board, pay the KSh 500 application fee to get the form, then return it with certified copies of your planning certificates. Registration is renewed every year.
- Fee
- KSh 500Application feeKSh 1,000Registration feeKSh 5,000Practising certificateKSh 1,000Annual renewal certificate
- Where
- In writing to the Registrar, Physical Planners Registration Board (no official board website found)
What you need
- Completed application form (Form II), issued by the Registrar after you pay
- Certified copies of your academic and professional certificates (originals may be requested)
Steps
- Write to the Registrar asking to register and pay the application fee. The Registrar then gives you the application form.
- Return the completed form with certified copies of your academic and professional certificates.
- The Board considers your application and may ask to see originals. Its decision comes in writing by registered post.
- Once registered, pay the registration and practising certificate fees, and renew every year.
Watch out
- In a planning firm, every partner or director who prepares plans must be a registered physical planner.
- Practising as a physical planner without registration is an offence: a fine of up to KSh 20,000, up to 12 months in jail, or both.
- Planners not ordinarily resident in Kenya can be registered for a specific job, for up to a year or the length of that job.
Who can apply
- Holders of a bachelor's or postgraduate degree in urban or regional planning from a university the Board recognises, who have passed the Board's exam.
- Or corporate members of an approved professional institution with equal entry standards.
- You need 2 years of practical planning experience after qualifying before you can sit the Board's exam.
Official sources (3)
- Physical Planners Registration Act (Cap. 536) new.kenyalaw.org · read 3 Oct 2026
- Physical Planners (Registration Procedure) Rules (L.N. 124/1998) new.kenyalaw.org · read 3 Oct 2026
- Physical Planners (Forms and Fees) Rules (L.N. 125/1998) new.kenyalaw.org · read 3 Oct 2026