Dubai Municipality has replaced Al Satwa's old rules, which mostly allowed attached villas, with a new framework under which plots of 1,000 square metres or more, including merged plots, can build a ground floor plus eight floors of apartments.
Dubai Municipality has issued new building rules for Al Satwa, one of the city's oldest districts, lying between Jumeirah and Bur Dubai and largely bypassed by the recent construction boom. The previous rules mainly allowed attached villas.
Under the new framework, plots on internal roads can build a ground floor plus two floors of apartments, while plots on external roads can add two or three residential floors above a commercial ground floor depending on location. Plots of 1,000 square metres or more, whether existing or created by merging two or more smaller plots (access lanes between them can be included), get the highest allowance: a ground floor plus eight residential floors.
Mansour Al Rais, director of the municipality's Executive Planning Department, said the aim is to give landowners and investors more flexibility to redevelop and make better use of land. Details are available on the Build in Dubai platform.
Source: The National
