68% of building violations are without a permit

Al-Ghatam: 5,430 violations were monitored in the northern region during the year 2015 The Director General of the Northern Region Municipality, Eng. Youssef bin Ibrahim Al-Ghatam, revealed "the number of violations monitored by the Northern Region Municipality during the past year 2015 through the Monitoring and Inspection Department, which amounted to 5,430 violations." Al-Ghatam explained that the largest number of violations are for advertising and non-advertising ads, saying, "The number of violations of advertising and non-advertising ads reached 3860, and the number of violations of road occupancy reached 1427, as well as 143 violations of unlicensed activity." He continued, "The number of violations of advertising ads reached 3,687, 3,750 ads were removed, as some ads were removed without issuing a notification to the violator, and the number of non-advertising ads reached 173, and 77 violations were removed." With regard to abandoned cars, Al-Ghatam said, "During the past year, the municipality of the northern region issued 1,205 violations of abandoned cars that were monitored by municipal inspectors, while removing 88 abandoned cars about which complaints were received from residents." Al-Ghatm called on everyone to cooperate in this regard, pointing out that the responsibility to preserve the environment and the traffic movement is a joint responsibility. "Leaving cars on the roads causes many environmental damages and confuses the traffic process on some roads," he said, stressing at the same time that some of these parked cars also disrupt the security situation in the areas. Al-Ghatam explained, "The total number of violations by street vendors amounted to 410, and 308 violations were removed, with an implementation rate of 75%," noting that most of the violations were concentrated in Hamad Town, where violations amounted to 243, at a rate of 75%. Al-Ghatam explained that the Northern Region Municipality organized several campaigns in Various periods to monitor, remove and follow up the issue of street vendors to reduce this problem, and added, “Most of the violations of street vendors were concentrated in Hamad Town and the relatively modern areas such as Janabiya and Abu Quwah.” On the other hand, the Director of the Technical Services Department, Eng. Saba Al-Asfoor said that the Northern Region Municipality had monitored 414 violations. It came as follows: “281 building violations without a license, and 76 violations of opening without a license,” noting that the Northern Region Municipality issued 38 notices to engineering offices, and issued 12 excavation violations, as there were 6 violations and one violation for occupying a road with building materials. She explained that the average number of violations recorded was 35 violations per month, and the highest rate was 68% for violations without a license. She added, “The number of statements reached 2,965, where the number of statements of complaints reached 127, pouring bases and bridges 157, and electrification. A 1202 detection, insurance 1454 detection and a deer building 17 detection. Pointing out that the insurance detection rate reached 49%, which is the highest percentage, followed by the electricity detection 41%, the least of which is a falling building, representing 1%. Al-Asfoor stressed that the northern region municipality is continuing its inspection campaigns, calling on the people to invest in awareness campaigns carried out by the municipality in many There are occasions and on an ongoing basis to reduce these violations and cooperate with the municipality in implementing regulations and laws.She added, "The municipality of the northern region carries out many awareness campaigns, and cleanliness campaigns, and takes advantage of national and religious occasions to educate the people and cooperate with them in order to clean their areas, and at the same time we work to be These campaigns are an opportunity to educate people about the importance of preserving the environment by adhering to regulations and laws for the public good.