Engineer Saif bin Amer Al Shaqsi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing headed the meeting of the Technical Committee of the Interim Mechanism of Urban Planning on Tuesday 23/5/2017 at the Ministry Headquarter. The meeting reviewed (28) technical and planning topics regarding investment projects in the governorate of Muscat, Al Dhairah and Al Buraimi as well as changing land use in the governorate.
The Technical Committee in Charge of Urban Planning Interim Mechanism in charge of reviewing and approving the urban planning in accordance with the specified regulations and standards as well as deciding on all current and future requests of changing the uses and building heights until the adoption of the National Strategy for Urban Development while Directorates and Departments of housing in the governorates take the charge of presenting schemes to Municipal Councils to give their opinion and then forward them to the technical committee in membership of a number of officials from different concerned authorities and headed by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing.
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