Time is running out for Dubai property owners to repair dilapidated properties.
Owners of 160 dilapidated buildings in Bur Dubai and Deira have been told to repair their properties within two weeks or face the wrecking ball.
Dubai Municipality said it would tear down the abandoned buildings and force owners to bear the costs if they failed to act before the stipulated deadline.
Landlords of rundown buildings, houses and yards who do not respond within two weeks will have their structures brought down without their consent.
“The municipality already warned land owners to act within two weeks from the date of declaration [given in the municipality notice] by executing maintenance and closing the doors,” said Jaber Al Ali, head of the Buildings Inspection Section. The notices were issued after inspections by the civic body.
This is part of the municipality’s continuing clean-up drive and, in the past six months, more than 500 buildings have been demolished in the emirate.
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