Prime Minister requests comprehensive inspection of "mini apartments"

(Dan Tri) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the Ministry of Construction to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the management of construction of multi-storey, multi-apartment single-family homes.

Recently, the Prime Minister has just signed and issued Official Dispatch 991 dated October 22, 2023 on strengthening the management of construction order and fire prevention and fighting (PCCC) for individual houses with many floors and many apartments. The Official Dispatch clearly stated that in some provinces and cities, in urban areas, residential areas near industrial parks, export processing zones, economic zones... the management of competent authorities is not effective. In particular, the construction of individual houses with many floors and many apartments that do not comply with the provisions of law, are built without planning, without permission, or without permission still occurs. Many projects do not ensure fire prevention and fighting standards and regulations, especially arbitrarily designing to add floors, arranging houses into many apartments or dividing rooms for the purpose of renting, buying, selling, transferring... leading to many consequences, potentially causing incidents and insecurity for the project. Faced with that situation, the Prime Minister assigned the Minister of Construction to urgently inspect, review, promptly evaluate, issue legal documents to amend, supplement, and perfect regulations, norms, and standards on planning, design, fire prevention and fighting, licensing, management, use, and naming of individual houses with many floors and many apartments. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the work of establishing and managing construction planning, urban planning, construction order, and organize comprehensive inspections of construction management activities of individual houses with many floors and many apartments (mini apartments).

In some provinces and cities, the management of functional agencies is not effective, allowing the construction of individual housing projects with many floors and many apartments (Photo: Hoang Hai).

The Ministry of Construction needs to preside over and closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to urgently study and find solutions to immediately overcome existing problems in fire prevention and fighting in individual houses with many floors, many apartments, and rental service businesses with high population density... The Prime Minister also directed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to strengthen guidance, inspection, and handling of violations in electricity use... The head of the Government requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and cities to urgently review and evaluate all individual houses with many floors and many apartments that have been put into use in the area to detect violations of construction order, especially violations of house function conversion, violations of fire prevention and fighting regulations to strictly handle violations. The Prime Minister emphasized that he will resolutely and strictly handle violations of construction order, and put an end to illegal and unlicensed construction. For new construction projects, local authorities must strictly control compliance with legal regulations on planning, construction, fire prevention and fighting, manage construction licensing, quality management, and construction order according to regulations.

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