Wed 09/April/2025 – 01:39 PM
The Housing and Utilities Sector at the Ministry of Housing is a draft law amending some provisions of the Building Law issued by Law No. 119 of 2008, to present it to the House of Representatives.
The new amendments in the draft law focused on unifying all laws related to the construction system in one law, in a logical sequence, according to the doors of the law (urban planning – cultural coordination – organizing construction work – preserving real estate wealth – penalties).
Housing has followed the effects of the application of the law since its issuance, the problems of its application, and the obstacles that faced citizens and those in charge of the law, so that they can proceeds with any amendments that are an obstacle to citizens.
The competent authorities are the draft law amendments, and the existing coordination between the Council of Ministers Advisors and the Ministry of Justice, and all ministries and authorities concerned with the application of the provisions of the Building Law, which aims to restore discipline to the Egyptian architecture.
The most prominent features of the amendments
The most prominent features of the amendments included the door of urban planning, as follows:
- Re -identify the tasks of the Supreme Council for Urban Planning.
- Determining the powers of the General Urban Planning Authority, and its work mechanisms, including technical supervision of the general departments of urban planning in the governorates.
- Replace strategic plans with urban development plans to expand the concept and not limit it to one of the planning tools.
- Amendments to organizing construction work, simplifying procedures, and facilitating citizens.
- Setting the necessary controls to ensure the construction safety of buildings and installations.
- The speed of confronting the construction without a license.
- Establishing an effective and effective mechanism to activate the provisions of the Federation of Occupational Union, especially in residential gatherings that would have a good management of the maintenance system in order to preserve real estate wealth.
It is worth noting, the Minister of Housing decided earlier to cancel the planning and structural requirements issued in March 2021, and to return to the provisions of the Building Law No. 119 of 2008 and its executive regulations, in implementation of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi, and to complete the efforts made to simplify and shorten the procedures for issuing building permits within the scope of the cities of local administration units to reduce the burden on citizens and support the urban movement.
According to the new requirements, the expenses specified in the requirements contained in the strategic and detailed plans, controls and requirements of the approved divisions, and the regulation lines approved, with emphasizing the commitment to the implementation of buildings and installations, according to the Egyptian codes, and allowing commercial and administrative activity to the ground and the first in residential buildings located on roads that exceed 10 Meters.
This was preceded by Ministerial Resolution No. 943 on September 3, amending the executive regulations of the Building Law, including amending some articles of the executive regulations of the construction law, which are 110 bis, 112 bis, and 117 bis, to be applied to the local administration units in the governorates.
