Over the next 30 days, the Maputo City Council expects to license around 500 illegally built or irregular construction sites in all the municipal districts of the country's capital.

To this end, the CMCM launched yesterday (18) a campaign for the mass regularization of illegal or irregular construction work up to the fourth floor, with exemption from fines.

The initiative comes as part of the facilitation of processes to regularize the works of residents who do not have a license to do so and the regularization of the land on which these works were erected without the owners having the title of Right of Use and Enjoyment of Land (DUAT).

On the occasion, the Councillor for Urban Planning, Territorial Planning and the Environment, Idálio Juvane, explained that the CMCM had decided not to apply the fines laid down in the municipality's construction and building regulations during this process, but said that the fees that are normally paid for the act would be charged.

Cited by AIMJuvane also said that the CMCM had approved the procedures to be followed by the administrations of the municipal districts where these processes will be based.

"In principle, works that present minimum conditions of environmental sustainability, accessibility, safety in use, safety of the structure of the property itself, hygiene and minimum conditions of habitability will be considered prerequisites for this process," he said.

However, the source warned that the initiative does not cover works that have been built in areas of risk, flooding, infrastructure protection or reserve strips and works that are in dispute or under embargo.