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07:24 pm
Tuesday 03 November 2020
Cairo – A&A:
Prime Minister Dr Mustafa Madbouly said that the government is working in coordination with the concerned authorities to accelerate the completion of controls and construction requirements in all governorates.
This came during Madbouly’s meeting chairing Tuesday on the review of planning and construction controls and requirements for the Cairo, Giza and Alexandria governorates, in the presence of Major General Mahmoud Sharawi, Minister of Local Development, Dr. Assem El-Jazzar, Minister of Housing, Public Services and Urban Communities, Engineer Alaa Abdel Fattah, Head of the Urban Planning Authority, and several professors from Egyptian Universities, while the Governors of Cairo, Giza and Alexandria participated in the meeting to through “video conferencing” technology.
The Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to cooperate fully between Egyptian universities and governorates in order to complete the structural requirements at the Republic level.
He also instructed the Prime Minister that universities in various governorates issue licenses, not localities, saying: Universities in governorates will serve as the advisory office for each province to issue licenses and control urbanization in each city.
During the meeting, the Prime Minister reviewed the objectives of the urban control guide and the drafting of controls and planning requirements for Egyptian cities, as it was indicated that the aim of the guide is to establish standards for the control of urbanization, lay the groundwork for the development of controls and planning requirements for Egyptian cities, and reformulate basic service programs – in the cities approved in them. Strategic plans – according to urban control directions.
Likewise, during the meeting, a working methodology for the board of directors was reviewed, which depends on identifying or dividing the city into administrative units or regions with homogeneous characteristics. To study the state of urbanization in it, monitor the indicators of the state of urbanization in terms of structural density, the proportions of the distribution of residential and non-residential uses, the percentage of road surface, the percentage of occupation, and the indicators of the situation of the population in units in terms of population, population density and population growth trends, as well as evaluating the state of urbanization according to the objectives and standards. Control urbanization, which includes controlling urbanization, reducing population problems and urban densification, reducing congestion and traffic congestion, increasing the efficiency of current road networks, increasing the efficiency of existing urbanization, and increasing costs. urban environmental quality indicators.
Likewise, the results of planning studies carried out by university professors with the aim of establishing the construction requirements in Cairo, Giza and Alexandria were reviewed, and it was agreed to present them to the Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development for approval.
