Shafaq New- Nineveh
Iraq’s Mosul Municipality onThursday expressed readiness to implement the Nineveh Provincial Council'sdecision to remove an ISIS-era earth barrier and issue building permits foreligible landowners as soon as it receives the required official directives.
Municipality Director MohammedAl-Agha told Shafaq News that work in the Qaz Fakhrah and Jaliokhan areas wouldbegin "without any delay,” noting that both areas fall within Mosul'smaster plan, with no legal obstacles to issuing building permits once titledeeds and service plans are verified.
Al-Agha added that Al-Qusiyat,Al-Abbasiya, and Al-Kindi fall outside the municipality's jurisdiction and areadministered by other authorities.
On Tuesday, the Nineveh ProvincialCouncil approved a package of measures lifting long-standing restrictions onconstruction on legally registered private land on the outskirts of Mosul aspart of efforts to resolve a land dispute that intensified after the defeat ofISIS. The measures require municipalities to issue building permits to ownersholding officially registered freehold property titles, begin land-levelingwork, remove security barriers erected during the ISIS conflict, and holdofficials accountable for obstructing implementation.
Iraq's Shabak community —an ethnicand religious minority concentrated in the Nineveh Plains— announced plans tochallenge the decision before Iraq's administrative and Federal courts, arguingthat it overlooks constitutional protections for minority-populated areas.
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