08:00 pm
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Books – Muhammad Ghayat:
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, chaired the meeting of the Supreme Council for Urban Planning and Development, to discuss a number of issues related to urban development activities.
This came in the presence of Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Assem Al-Jazzar, Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, Mr. Al-Qaseer, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Major General Hisham Amna, Minister of Local Development, Dr. Nevin Al-Kilani, Minister of Culture, and Engineer Ahmed Samir, Minister of Interior. Commerce and Industry, Ahmed Issa, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Major General Yasser Al-Mallah, representative of the Ministry of Defense in the Council, Major General Nasser Fawzi, Director of the National Center for State Land Use, Dr. Maha Muhammad Fahim, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Urban Planning, and experienced members.
Ambassador Nader Saad, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, stated that the meeting dealt with many issues related to the restriction or exemption from some or all of the building requirements, as well as what is related to changing land uses, in addition to what is related to re-planning some areas.
The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers indicated that with regard to issues related to re-planning of some areas in a number of governorates, the Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development agreed, during its meeting today, to declare the Nile Corniche area in the Sahel neighborhood, with an area of 154.5 feddans, in Cairo Governorate, as a re-planning area. This is in light of the optimal utilization of the lands of state property in the region, as well as the area of Ramses Square, Sabtieh, and Limoun Bridge with an area of (14.62) acres, within the framework of the presidential mandate to study the requirements for re-planning of this region.
The areas also include the Nile Corniche in Maadi, Dar al-Salam and Athar al-Nabi, with an area of (1642.75) feddans, and the area between Bashtil Railway Station, the 26th of July Corridor and the Monorail line west of Cairo, with an area of (5958.71) feddans in Giza Governorate, and in the South Sinai Governorate, the re-planning areas included the neighborhood area. Al-Salam in Abu Rudeis, with an area of (400.30 acres), in light of the governorate’s desire to develop the area and establish the Suez University there.
The Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development also approved the request submitted by the Sovereign Fund for Investment and Development, regarding changing the use of the Tahrir Complex building, to become a hotel building, as well as the former Ministry of Interior building in Blazoghli, to become an integrated service complex.
Ambassador Nader Saad pointed out that during the meeting, the request of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Aswan to raise the outpatient clinic building of the Cancer Institute in Aswan was approved, to become 20 meters, which comes within the framework of the height decided within the general strategic plan for the city of Aswan, due to the importance of the institute. National service to serve the citizens, and then the need to increase the treatment services provided through it, and accommodate the increase in the number of visitors to it, especially after its inclusion in the comprehensive health insurance system.
The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers added that the Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development, during its meeting today, also approved several issues related to changing land uses within the state’s plan for optimal utilization of the assets owned by it and maximizing its value, and this included approving the request of the Ministry of Transport to change the use of two plots of land owned by the company. Holding for sea and land transportation, to residential, commercial, administrative, recreational or service use. It was also approved the request of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade to change the use of 4 plots of land owned by the Holding Company for Food Industries, to residential, commercial, administrative, recreational or service use, as well as the approval of the Port Said Governorate’s request to change the use of a plot of land in Port Said, owned by it with an area of 12 thousand square meters, to invest its privileged location in tourism use.
