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Evening check at flats to commence

DUBAI: Dubai Municipality has created a special team tasked to conduct evening inspections at the flats and villas as part of efforts to strictly enforce housing rules.

As per Dubai Municipality’s regulations, bachelors are not allowed to live in residential areas and families are not allowed to share villas. Residential areas include buildings with units rented out as living space.

Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality, indicated that authorities have decided to do evening inspections because daytime checks have not yielded results as most building and villa occupants were at work.

The team is expected to catch the violators when they are back home after office hours as daytime inspections may not find violators, stated a press statement from the civic body, adding that the team will control violations related to bachelor accommodations and multiple families sharing single units.

Aside from evenings, the emergency team, which will be headed by Jaber Ahmad Abdullah Al Ali, head of Building Inspection Section in the Buildings Department of the municipality, will likewise conduct inspections on weekends and official holidays to check illegal activities which constitute a security risk in residential neighborhoods, the municipality said.

When necessary, the team will likewise meet with residents on matters of rent disputes in coordination with relevant the concerned agencies. This will include requests for checking the residential units during the evenings.

Gulf News reported that the latest figures released by the municipality earlier this month showed that the civic body and Dubai Police conducted 80 inspections targeting bachelors living in residential areas during the first half of 2016. No recent figures were immediately available for inspections related to the “one villa…one family” policy.

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