The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has launched Phase II of the crackdown against arbitrary housing and makeshift additions targeting villas and flats as well as residential & commercial buildings constructed without official permits by removing these violations and taking proper actions against offenders.
The Campaign, which was launched today (Sunday 6 June 2010) is run by the Municipality in collaboration with General HQ of Abu Dhabi Police, Ministry of Labour, Civil Defense Department, and the Abu Dhabi Naturalization & Residency Directorate (ADNRD), in the context of maintaining the security & safety of the community and the beautiful appearance of the capital, with the aim of maintaining it free from hazards and pests in addition to removing all distortions as they have negative impact on the appearance of the city, environment and public health.
The Campaigns aim at combating arbitrary additions to houses and flats, and tracking offences associated with crowded & disorderly bachelors accommodation at residential and commercial areas so as to eliminate its negative social and economic impacts. It also aims at implementing the injunctions issued against villas and residential buildings in breach of the building conditions at various parts of Abu Dhabi city, including enforcement measures and removal of violations such as unlicensed walls and additions.
According to Owaidah Al Qubaisi, Acting Executive Director of Municipal Serves Sector, who stated: “through continuing these campaigns the Municipality is seeking to enhance the community’s awareness of the impact of these phenomena on security & safety, make concerted efforts to combat them, and educate tenants, investors and landlords on the serious social impacts resulting from these outlawed buildings and additions. Such buildings are constructed without any consideration to the health standards as well as safety & security implications focused only on making personal material gains, thus the Municipality is seeking to discourage investors who are seeking to make windfall profits at the expense of tenants by exploiting their needs for accommodation.
“The Campaign will continue over two weeks to cover inspection of the unlawful internal partitions and makeshift walls made inside buildings and villas, track the additions made to exiting houses such as the illegal appurtenances made to villas and disorderly and outlawed housing of individuals.
“It is vital to integrate the efforts of all entities to combat these challenges, and rectify errors made in various fields, including those relating to housing additions, randomly made buildings and all other resulting violations. Coordination in hand with all civil and official entities to carry out these campaigns and contain the randomly built, collapsing and abandoned buildings, besides containing the spread of bachelor accommodation in a way that maintains the security and privacy of the community,” added Al Qubaisi.
It is worth-mentioning that the first campaign, which was launched in January including serving notices followed at a later stage and takes strict legal measures against those who continued to remain in violations and the investors who failed to respond to the recurrent notices made and haven’t taken them seriously. Accordingly the illegal structures and additions made were removed and the Municipality will continue its campaigns to track and eliminate these offences till finally removed.