Bahrain Housing Ministry started demolishing old buildings; offers tenants BD200 allowance
TDT | Manama
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The Ministry of Housing confirmed that its plans to demolish and replace old apartments with new residential buildings are progressing as scheduled.
The project covers buildings older than 45 years and unfit for living, with higher maintenance costs.
For the tenants of these apartments, the ministry offers various alternatives, including granting a monthly housing allowance of up to BD200 to speed up evacuation.
“The idea of the project is to develop 6,750 apartments complete with all modern facilities and services by replacing the old apartment building in various governorates of the Kingdom,” said the ministry.
“This would clear the long wait of thousands of beneficiaries on the housing list.”
The ministry also confirmed making progress in vacating old residential apartments.
Demolitions works have also started. So far, the ministry has identified 250 buildings having 1884 apartments in various governorates of Bahrain.
“They will be demolished and rebuilt following modern, sustainable and green energy standards,” the ministry said. The new projects will have open and green spaces, outdoor areas, gardens and other spaces.
The ground floor will have shops, services, parking and green areas, mezzanine parking floors, while the first floor will have play areas for practising hobbies.
On the new apartments in Isa Town, the ministry said they would be facing the Bahrain Metro Project.
The ministry is demolishing 103 apartments here.
The new buildings will have a built-up area of 253,973.00 square meters and 720 apartments in a land area of 64,682.80 square metres.
“This would enhance the architectural and aesthetic beauty of the Kingdom while also ensuring optimum usage of land area and raising population density in a well-suited manner,” the ministry said, adding that they would build no more than 100 apartments per hectare.
“Modern architectural designs and distinctiveness of locations selected allow the completion of the project with accelerated pace,” the ministry stressed.
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