Muscat municipality emphasizes compliance with technical requirements for existing houses and the law obligates fines and removal of irregularities
• Local Ordinance (23/92) on the regulation of buildings in Muscat sets out the technical requirements for the safety of buildings.
• Irregularities and fines for the construction of extensions and additions without permit.
• Failure to comply with the technical requirements of external parking violates the public services and distorts the public view.
By: Bushra Al-Busaidiy
Muscat Municipality is actively pursuing facilities and buildings to verify compliance with technical requirements for existing homes and houses under to construction and ensure compliance with all regulations, regulations and legal frameworks governing this area, as well as to reduce construction excesses; The follow-up of technical clearances, drawings and approved maps, on the other hand, is of particular importance to the municipality of Muscat to raise awareness of the impact of irregularities on the safety of individuals society resulting from the overriding of technical requirements in building houses, where the phenomenon of construction abuses is one of the most significant negative phenomena that pose a threat On members of society and affect the overall landscape in the urban environment, particularly physical harmony.
Efforts of the inspection teams
The urban inspection adminsitrations of Muscat Municipality perform their inspection and supervisory roles to ensure that local ordinance 23/92 on the regulation of buildings is adhered to Muscat, through ongoing field work and inspection campaigns, where abuses are considered to be a departure from the laws established for the regulations The materials identified by the domestic Ordinance, both in terms of obtaining a permit for the conduct of works of art or compliance with specific technical requirements in general, field visits are carried out on an ongoing basis within the framework of the municipality`s eagerness to organize and follow up the construction of buildings and installations in the governorate Muscat; To ensure that they conform to licences issued by the municipality and to comply with all construction specifications and achieve the highest safety rates for such buildings in accordance with the requirements defined as a set of rules and laws that would determine the minimum acceptable level of safety for objects Constructed, with the aim of protecting public health and ensuring safety and public interest in the construction of buildings and installations.
Irregularities of existing houses
The most prominent technical irregularities related to existing houses are: neglect of improvements and periodic maintenance of houses; these irregularities affect the overall aesthetic appearance, as well as the resulting optical contamination and the heterogeneity of the single-region buildings, and the damage to individuals living in the same area, the Local Ordinance (23/92) on the regulation of buildings, in accordance with article 131, specified that "any construction or part of a building became a deer to fall." His survival in that situation has become a threat to the population, neighbours and pedestrians, and the owner or agent must remove it, warn him or warn the population to evacuate. Municipal municipality to do so, the municipality is entitled if it does not respond to the warning to evacuate the building from its inhabitants and to remove the building in the prescribed administrative and legal manner, with the obligation of the employer to pay the costs with the implementation of any other penalties prescribed by law ", as provided in article 132 of the same domestic ordinance, that the municipality The right to require the owner or his or her deputizees to repair and maintain his or her property whenever necessary and with the specifications that the appropriate municipality, and the landlord has to do so, and has limited the financial penalty for violating this article with the obligation to remove the offence.
Exceeding Requirements
The irregularities in the requirements and specifications of the authorized building are either to add construction on rooftops or to make alterations within or outside the boundaries of the building without obtaining with the approval of the municipality of Muscat, it is contrary to the established local orders, as well as additions to the construction with non-stationary materials For the building as an internal partitioning procedure or the addition of entrances with wood, aluminium or gypsum, as well as the addition of random supplements without a permit, is to override it is a burden and a danger to the safety of individuals in terms of their likelihood of exposure to fires or electrical solicitation in the event of faulty electrical extension when they do so Additions, article (2) of the Local Ordinance (23/92) stipulates that no building may be commenced or any part of it shall be added or demolished. Or make any modification in its external form or internal order, change its contours, settle it or open a window or door only after obtaining a permit from the municipality, as The local order itself committed to the importance of taking into account the colours adopted by the municipality when changing the exterior paint of buildings and installations.
Additions with unstable materials
One of the negative phenomena monitored by the urban circuits of the municipality of Muscat is the making of additions to rooftops, where the municipality insists on not allowing the addition of any non-stationary materials for existing houses such as umbrellas or bird cages on rooftops; because of the distortion of the general back and the emission of the results. The unpleasant of the cages, as well as the noise events of the neighbours and pedestrians, at the same time the addition of external umbrellas for vehicles without my permission is a violation to the same caveats as the municipality; on the basis of the local Ordinance on the regulation of buildings, legal provisions and technical requirements are required When he wishes to make an umbrella for external positions, the owner of the relationship is bound by the specific requirements and controls, depending on the models adopted.
The municipality urges all members to comply with municipal laws and regulations, and calls them to cooperate and to report any irregularities or observations through the Muscat communications centre with a toll-free number (1111).