Bamenda II Council as whole has areas within its environment that are difficult or dangerous to land use. Equally apart from natural environmental constraints there are various human responses to the environment in regard to proposed planning.

A. Natural constraints to urban development
- The Bamenda escarpment which separates the plateau into two, limiting contiguous expansion and development to occur; particularly functional linkages of road development and housing, which affects all the three subdivisions.
- A significant number of valleys and swamps exist within the urban framework which undermined land carrying capacity and development; and there is no formal land reclamation program for such places forcing the landlords to carry out clandestine
development.

B. The Human Constraints to Urban Development and Growth
- The urban land market which is unorganized and control resulting to spontaneous land sub-divisions, hoarding and speculation in national, private, and government lands;
- Conversion of agricultural land to urban land use without respect of land use zoning and regulation;
- Poor enforcement of development control resulting to chaotic and haphazard land development;
- Poor distribution and networking of Public utilities such as water and electricity supplies, drainage and sewage;
- The unbalanced location of public and community facilities such as schools, markets, lorry parks, public offices has contributed to the sprawling and non-harmonious urban expansion.