Nghe An stops FLC's VND16,000 billion project

"Giant" project

Previously, in 2017,FLC Grouphas submitted a document to the People's Committee of Nghe An province on the proposal of the Project of Ecological Resort and Entertainment Complex in Nghi Tien Commune, Nghi Loc District with an area of ​​460 hectares. At the end of 2017, the Provincial Party Executive Committee issued Conclusion Notice No. 70-KL/TU dated December 11, 2017, agreeing with the Document of the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee on the investment policy of this project of FLC Group.

Graphics of some subdivisions of the FLC Nghe An Beach & Golf Resort Project. Photo: Document

Based on Conclusion No. 70 of the Provincial Party Committee, on March 28, 2018, FLC Group officially submitted a request for approval of the investment policy under the name of FLC Nghe An Beach & Golf Resort Project, with a scale of 460 hectares, with a total investment of VND 16,009 billion.

Coming to Nghi Tien commune recently, the story about FLC's "huge" project is still buzzing among the local people. In the drawer of Nghi Tien commune People's Committee, the planning maps, files, announcements, and drawings of the project's subdivisions still smell of new paper. However, the expected project is nowhere to be seen.

Nghi Tien Commune Center, one of the areas located entirely within the FLC Group project. Photo: Tien Dong

Mr. Tran Van Tho - the head of Tien Phong hamlet, which was merged from 5 hamlets (from hamlet 1 to hamlet 5) before, said: When FLC Group came to invest in the project here, the people also heard some information. At first, everyone was excited because they thought there would be a large-scale project in the locality, but in reality, if such a large area of ​​land was cleared, about 600 households in the whole commune would have to relocate, so it would be very difficult. But then the investor never came to implement it, so gradually no one mentioned it anymore.

In fact, in 2017 and 2018, FLC Group organized many working groups to Nghe An to research and survey, and even informed the locality that the project would start in March 2018. At that time, the people of Nghi Tien commune were also informed to stop building new houses and repairing houses in the land planned for the FLC Group project.

If the FLC Group project is implemented, it is expected that more than half of Nghi Tien commune's land area will be reclaimed and site clearance will be carried out. Photo: Tien Dong

Mr. Nguyen Bang Phi - Chairman of Nghi Tien Commune People's Committee said: If the planning of FLC Group was implemented correctly, there were 7 hamlets at that time (now merged into 2 hamlets) that had to be relocated. It was expected that in March 2018, FLC Group would start construction, but then did not implement it, so the regulations tightening the construction and repair of people's houses were also gradually loosened.

Mr. Phi also said: Because at that time, FLC Group was doing the procedures, the site clearance had not been implemented, and the land extraction and measurement had not been done.

A residential area in Nghi Tien commune that was part of the FLC Group project planning process has now been abolished. Photo: Tien Dong

"Broken in the middle of the road"

Once promised to be the largest resort project in Nghe An, contributing to changing the economic structure towards focusing on services, bringing Nghe An tourism brand to a large number of domestic and international tourists, however, the Ecological Resort and Entertainment Complex Project in Nghi Tien Commune (Nghi Loc), of FLC Group has fallen into a "half-way breakdown" situation.

Back when FLC Group proposed to implement this project, because Nghi Tien commune area was located in the 1/2000 scale zoning plan of the East - Southeast area of ​​the Southeast Economic Zone approved by Nghe An Provincial People's Committee in 2011, in order to implement it, the planning of this area had to be adjusted.

In fact, on March 8, 2018, the People's Committee of Nghe An province issued a decision approving the project to adjust the construction zoning plan at a scale of 1/2000 in the East - Southeast area (excluding the duty-free area) of the Southeast Economic Zone. If this task is implemented, about 650 households in Nghi Tien commune will have to relocate to make way for the project. In addition, there are about 3,000 graves and all administrative and public works of Nghi Tien commune with clearance costs of up to 1,760 billion VND.

Overall perspective of the project. Photo: Document

In addition, the proposed Eco-tourism and Recreation Complex Project in Nghi Tien Commune, Nghi Loc District is no longer consistent with the overall adjustment of the general planning for the construction of the Southeast Economic Zone to 2040, which is being submitted to the Prime Minister for approval. Not to mention, the task of adjusting the 1/2000 scale construction zoning plan for the East - Southeast area, which is the basis for considering and approving the project investment policy proposed by FLC Group on March 8, 2018, was also abolished by the Provincial People's Committee in June 2022.

Therefore, last September, the Party Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee submitted a Document to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Executive Committee, term XIX, 2020-2025, to consider canceling the conclusion on the investment policy of the Eco-tourism and entertainment complex project in Nghi Tien commune, Nghi Loc district, which was approved by the Provincial Party Executive Committee in Conclusion No. 70, dated December 11, 2017.

Faced with that situation, on September 29, 2022, the Provincial Party Executive Committee issued Notice No. 665-TB/TU on stopping the implementation of Conclusion No. 70-KL/TU dated December 11, 2017.

Accordingly, after listening to the report of the Provincial People's Committee Party Committee (Report No. 179-TTr/BCSD, dated September 26, 2022) and discussion opinions, the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee agreed to stop implementing Conclusion No. 70-KL/TU dated December 11, 2017 of the Provincial Party Committee on the investment policy of the above project as proposed by the Provincial People's Committee Party Committee in Report No. 179. The Nghe An Provincial Party Committee assigned the Provincial People's Committee Party Committee to lead the implementation of the next steps to ensure strict compliance with the provisions of law.