Director of Department of Construction: The rate of high-rise buildings in Vinh City is still low.

(Baonghean.vn) - The Director of the Department of Construction said that the current situation of high-rise apartment development in Vinh City is not as worrying as in big cities, but in fact the rate of high-rise buildings in our country is still low.

Director of the Department of Construction Hoang Trong Kim explained related contents at the discussion session in the hall on the morning of July 12. Photo: Duc Anh

Explaining voters' opinions at the 4th session of the 17th Provincial People's Council, Mr. Hoang Trong Kim - Director of the Department of Construction said that high-rise apartment buildings planned in the old inner city of Vinh City and the expanded development parts are organized according to 2 methods.

Firstly, high-rise apartment buildings located in housing development projects in the direction of urban areas or new housing areas, according to the synthesis and statistics of the Department of Construction, have a systematic planning, spatial layout, beautiful and modern architecture, suitable for the orientation of urban space development and ensuring technical infrastructure requirements.

Project of high-rise apartment building, social housing and Kim Thi kindergarten, Quan Bau ward, Vinh city. Photo: Document

“Second, the high-rise apartment building is built independently, not as a complete housing development project according to current regulations, but is located in the inner-city residential areas of Vinh City. The Department has compiled and evaluated the basic plans to meet the standards and regulations on construction planning, construction density, internal road construction area, parking lots, etc., but at a minimal level; the connection of infrastructure around the project with infrastructure connecting to the main urban axis infrastructure and neighboring areas is not really complete,” said Mr. Kim.

“Before the meeting, we drove along the main roads such as Nguyen Trai, Quang Trung, Tran Phu, Phan Dinh Phung, Le Duan, Le Mao, etc. On these very long roads, there are currently only a few constructions, not a large density. We agree with voters’ concerns about the risks similar to those in large cities, but the reality of Vinh is not like that of large cities like Hanoi… in fact, our high-rise building ratio is still low,” the head of the Department of Construction affirmed.

Mr. Hoang Trong Kim also said that developing high-rise apartments is an inevitable trend in the context of increasing population and housing demand. “The problem is how to organize to avoid its negative consequences, but if we say that high-rise apartments cannot be developed, there will be no area to meet that high demand,” he emphasized.

During the discussion session at the hall on the morning of July 12, the 4th session of the Provincial People's Council, delegate Ngo Thi Thu Hien, from the Vinh City constituency, said that in recent years, the construction of many mini apartment buildings in the city center has caused many consequences: increasingly high population density, traffic congestion during rush hour; complicated security and order, difficult to manage people, household registration, etc. In addition, the technical infrastructure of apartment buildings is not synchronous, not much attention is paid to connecting with the infrastructure of surrounding areas, often causing flooding during the rainy season, causing loss of urban beauty. Some apartment buildings are eligible to form blocks but do not have community centers, access roads and parking lots are narrow, not ensuring future needs. The construction quality of some apartment buildings and technical infrastructure are not inspected, managed, and supervised, quickly deteriorating, causing frustration for apartment buyers. For example, in Kim Thi apartment complex (Quan Bau), delegate Hien said that 215 households have moved in for nearly a year now, but there is no community center, no shade trees, no entertainment area, and the parking lot is very narrow...

In response to the opinion of delegate Ngo Thi Thu Hien that some apartment buildings still lack communal living spaces, cultural houses, etc., the Director of the Department of Construction explained: All apartment buildings as new urban areas and residential areas have arranged spaces for cultural houses and communal living spaces; Depending on the scale, some projects are independent items, some projects choose spaces in high-rise buildings on low floors attached to outdoor spaces to solve this problem.

In addition, Mr. Hoang Trong Kim also affirmed that all projects ensure a green tree density of 10-12% of the project area; the green tree area is structured in 2 forms: flower gardens, parks; green tree area on the sidewalks of the streets. “Therefore, through calculations, if we include the green tree area in the traffic area, we meet and exceed the standard. Although in terms of feeling, the urban area is built first, the green trees are newly planted or not planted yet, so the trees are still small, there is no shade, but according to the development year, Vinh City will be an urban area with a vertical projection area of ​​​​tree shade covering the ground, meaning the green tree area is considered good”, he commented.

Discussing specifically about the Kim Thi Apartment project (Quan Bau ward), the leader of the Department of Construction said that the planning of this project did not reduce the common living space as some press agencies reported. Mr. Kim explained: "After 2 adjustments, the project planning was increased, the green space increased by 1269.69 m²compared to the original planning. For the townhouse area, the area is 1342.98 m²The project was planned into 11 residential lots, but the investor has now asked for permission not to build townhouses but to build a kindergarten to serve the community in the area and its vicinity. We see this as a good initiative, in the face of the trend of many investors wanting to divide the land into lots and sell them for profit. However, some residents here do not agree because they think that if residents from neighboring areas send their children to the kindergarten, it will cause disorder. I see this as a narrow-minded and local way of thinking.

Talking to a group of reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, delegate Ngo Thi Thu Hien commented: "According to the explanation of the Department of Construction, compared to other provinces, Nghe An has also made efforts, but if there is a better future development plan, the appearance of Vinh city will change a lot, taking on a more civilized appearance."

Delegate Hien said that it is necessary to strengthen projects integrating social security infrastructure, combining gradual population dispersion to suburban areas where technical infrastructure has been built, ensuring full essential needs of residents so that people are "ready to move to the suburbs"./.

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