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 21/10/2017 in the Ministry of Housing headquarter, in the presence of the committee members from relevant government bodies.
The committee reviewed (167) technical and planning topics including (158) topic in South Al Batinah, (7) topics Dhofar, in addition to (2) topics in different governorates to decide on them and changing uses and heights.
Noteworthy that 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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