المملكة: “Municipalities”: cadastral decisions are “open to validity”… and banning “flooding” sites

Introduced Ministry of Municipalities and Housing The unified procedural guide for surveying decisions in the Kingdom, with the aim of controlling the procedures for identifying real estate and unifying technical references through the “Baladi” platform, obliging engineering offices to adhere to precise standards to protect properties and prevent interference.

The Ministry has adopted a comprehensive procedural guide that organizes all surveying work, to be the primary reference for secretariats and municipalities when issuing technical documents that determine the geographical locations of real estate and their precise dimensions.

The new organization aims to Protecting lands from encroachments and providing reliable data on expropriation acts, while supporting national geographic databases with updated information that reflects the actual reality of real estate.

The Ministry limited the application to the service electronically through the “Baladi” platform, where the beneficiary’s journey begins with contracting with an approved engineering office to conduct field lifting, and ends with the issuance of the decision and payment of fees after approval.

The guide obligated engineering offices to use advanced monitoring devices “GNSS” and integrated stations to ensure the accuracy of coordinates, warning against providing any information that is incorrect or contrary to reality, under penalty of legal liability.

The regulation set strict technical standards for accuracy. The cadastral measurement ranges between 3 millimeters and 5 centimeters depending on the type of project, with the requirement to use the Kingdom’s national geodetic reference in all monitored coordinates.

The Ministry confirmed that the issued cadastral decisions do not expire within a specific period of time, and remain in effect unless fundamental changes occur in the land data or organizational charts that require a new update.

The new procedures have given the secretariats the authority to address differences between the instrument area. In reality, this is according to specific tolerance margins and grant increase systems, before the decision is finally approved.

The guide stressed the necessity of separating the cadastral decision for each piece of land independently, with limited exceptions that allow the merging of more than one instrument or plot for the purpose of determining the remaining parts according to specific controls.

The regulations made clear that the role of the cadastral decision is limited to describing the land, its boundaries and dimensions, and is not considered as a document to prove the areas of buildings or facilities located on it, and does not prove ownership. itself.

The Ministry linked the issuance of the final invoice for service fees to the stage after the approval of the technical report by the secretariat employee, to ensure the accuracy of the outputs before burdening the beneficiary with any financial burdens.

The instructions prohibited the adoption of any surveying decision that falls within the channels of valleys and torrents or areas prohibited by royal orders, obliging offices to clarify the overlaps, if any, in order to exclude them from the net area.