Al Bilad newspaper “Housing”: Providing lands of 300 square meters opposes the division mechanism and affects housing programs with the “private”
– 2024-04-15 22:11:16
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning stated in its views on parliamentary legislation requiring the Ministry to set a minimum for the areas of residential plots allocated to citizens to not be less than 300 and 400 square meters – which varies according to the income of the beneficiary – that, given the limited residential lands in the Kingdom of Bahrain, it stresses the necessity of achieving optimal exploitation. These lands are used to meet housing demands to serve urban development plans in the Kingdom, which seek to establish integrated communities, in terms of facilities and services, in addition to housing projects.
The Ministry indicated that the current division approved by the Urban Planning and Development Authority allows real estate developers who provide units to citizens, whether beneficiaries of financing services or those not entitled to housing services, to divide areas of up to 160 square metres, and most developers provide housing units and vouchers for the middle-income group on areas It varies between 160 to 180 square meters in order to enable citizens to purchase residential units and plots that suit their living and social conditions.
The Ministry stated that the proposed law would require it to provide spaces of no less than 300 and 400 square metres, which is not compatible with the division mechanism currently followed in urban planning in the Kingdom, and that this would also affect the housing programs that it developed in partnership with the private sector, as it allows… The possibility of purchasing residential plots from real estate developers, and therefore a large discrepancy between the areas of the plots they provide compared to the lands provided by the private sector would affect the decisions of those wishing to benefit from the service.
Financing.
This came in its views on the report of the Public Utilities and Environment Committee regarding the proposed law (as amended) to amend some provisions of Decree Law No. (10) of 1976 regarding housing, submitted by Representative Muhammad Al-Marafi, where the content of the proposed law revolves around granting the beneficiary of housing plots financing for their construction (land (and a loan) and replacing the phrase “Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning” with the phrase “Ministry of Housing” and the phrase “Minister of Housing and Urban Planning” with the phrase “Minister of Housing” wherever they appear in the decree law.
She explained that the proposal would affect the mechanism of work of the government land development rights program in partnership with the private sector, which is primarily based on providing real estate developers with government lands according to specific requirements and standards, related to the number of implemented units and land areas for each residential unit, and thus this may affect the ability of the program. In providing project units included in its plans.
The Ministry indicated that what the proposed law stipulates regarding specifying areas will entail re-planning the projects whose plans have been approved, and issuing nomination certificates to citizens specifying the plots and units allocated to them in the project, which will contribute to
Reducing the number of lands, and negatively affecting the number of units hoped to be implemented in housing projects.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning stated that, in accordance with the basic principles and principles on which the texts of laws are built, these texts must be characterized by generality and abstraction, so that they are directed to all individuals and not specific to a specific person or group, but the proposed article is limited to a specific group, and in addition to that, it The House of Representatives has a draft law amending Article (1) of Decree Law No. (10) of 1976 regarding housing, which gives the Minister of Housing and Urban Planning the powers to add or create any new services by ministerial decisions through any housing programs, which will give the Ministry flexibility to choose Ways to provide services and programs that meet the aspirations of citizens and contribute to resolving housing requests and achieving the goals stipulated in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Council has previously submitted a proposal for a law to add Article No. 1 bis to Decree Law No. 10 of 1976 regarding housing, and the Ministry’s views were requested regarding it, so it would be appropriate Combine them in the form of a single law proposal.
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