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Nearly 1.2 million regularization files submitted to the daïras commissions
Unfinished constructions
The Minister of Housing, Urban Planning, Towns and Regional Planning, Mohamed Tarek Belaribi, indicated, Thursday, in Algiers, that more than 1.165 million files for the regularization of unfinished buildings have been submitted to the daïras commissions as part of the implementation of law 08-15. “Among these files, 86% have already been examined, 46% accepted, and 26% resulted in the issuance of town planning acts,” he said. Ensuring that his department is working, in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior, to strengthen the activity of the local commissions responsible for processing these files.
Speaking during a plenary session at the Council of the Nation devoted to oral questions, chaired by Azouz Nasri, in the presence of the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Nadjiba Djillali and several members of the Government, Mohamed Tarek Belaribi revealed, with regard to violations of the laws on construction and town planning, that more than
85,000 reports were drawn up between 2020 and 2024, while 3,589 demolition operations were carried out by local authorities.
Announcing, on the occasion, the preparation of a global regulatory text intended to regulate the various issues linked to these offenses.
Affirming that his department is on the verge of completing the development of two bills likely to transform the urban face of Algeria, Mohamed Tarek Belaribi indicated that “the operation of bringing constructions into conformity and their completion is the subject of particular monitoring by the ministry, which has initiated several laws, decrees and interministerial instructions aimed at stemming this phenomenon.”
This concerns, specified the Minister of Housing, on the one hand, the new draft law on town planning, which will soon be submitted to Parliament and which will provide concrete answers to numerous problems in the sector. “Our services are also working on a text of law specific to unfinished constructions,” continued Mohamed Tarek Belaribi.
Stressing that this legal arsenal will contribute, in the years to come, to sustainably redesigning the national urban landscape, the minister, on the occasion, welcomed the decision of the President of the Republic to integrate the General Directorate of Territorial Planning within his ministerial department (previously attached to the Ministry of the Interior).
“This department is currently working to study several plans which will offer a global vision of town planning. It is also carrying out a specific study on the redevelopment and restructuring of corridors along the East-West highway, capable of improving urban facades, redirecting real estate and urban investments towards these corridors and strengthening the attractiveness of spaces adjacent to this highway,” he said.
Referring to the implementation of the decision of the President of the Republic to increase rural housing aid to 1.1 million DA for the mountainous regions of the wilayas of the North, the Hauts Plateaux and the South, Mohamed Tarek Belaribi explained that this measure requires a revision of the Executive Decrees as well as the regulatory texts relating to the classification of municipalities according to their geographical nature.
“A working group between the Ministries of Housing, Finance and the Interior was set up, on the instructions of the Prime Ministry last July, in order to finalize the studies relating to the classification of municipalities,” he noted, adding that this operation, carried out by experts and technicians, will be completed before the end of the current year.
Rabah Mokhtari