Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Prince Badr bin Sultan, deputy emir of the Makkah Area, inaugurated the Bahjah undertaking on Jeddah Obhur waterfront on Monday. The launching ceremony was held within the presence of Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing Majed Al-Hogail, Mayor of Jeddah Governorate Eng. Saleh Al-Turki, and quite a lot of senior officers of the Jeddah Mayoralty. The Bahjah undertaking goals to rework unused areas into lively city areas and develop parks and concrete interventions in cities and residential areas to enhance the standard of life and well-being of the folks.
Through the ceremony, Prince Badr bin Sultan witnessed the signing of quite a lot of agreements with the personal sector, represented by the businesses — Al-Othaim, Leejam, Dinar Holding, Zoyouf, Knight Frank and Anderson Saudi Arabia — to be able to present a spread of companies inside the Bahja undertaking. The undertaking consists of creating and renovating public parks and gardens, offering youngsters’s play areas, and concrete websites ready for lively and joyful experiences in nature that improve neighborhood cohesion and social well-being in communities that encourage participation in neighborhood sports activities, giving people a way of the atmosphere and a way of the spirit of the folks round them.
Talking on the event, Al-Hogail harassed that, by way of the launch of the Bahjah Venture, the ministry seeks to unify the efforts of the mayoralties in enhancing the standard of life for residents, reaching the targets of open areas, enhancing the satisfaction of metropolis residents and guests, and supporting the idea of high quality of life in all areas of the Kingdom. He emphasised that the launch of the undertaking will contribute to enriching and enhancing happiness in society.
Al-Hogail stated that the undertaking goals to maximise the usage of open areas and develop the city material of day by day life, by remodeling unused open areas into lively areas with a contemporary and progressive methodology that ensures the profitable implementation of the undertaking in response to new strategies of labor that target offering high quality companies to people and buyers, activating digital and productiveness instruments and facilitating operations to be able to construct an achievement engine that retains tempo with the long run.
Eng. Nouf bint Muhammad Al-Khalidi, head of the Nationwide City Planning Studio on the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, gave a presentation on the undertaking wherein she reviewed the ministry’s targets by way of the launch of the Bahjah undertaking. Most notable amongst them are finishing the institution of seven,000 parks and 1,500 city interventions throughout the Kingdom’s areas by the 12 months 2030.
Through the present 12 months, the ministry has applied 26 parks in Jeddah and greater than 130 city interventions in Taif and Makkah, bringing the Makkah area’s share of areas to 132 parks and 206 city interventions, together with distinctive, medium-sized and small parks, and others inside neighborhoods, along with creating quite a lot of secondary roads within the neighborhoods.
The ministry seeks to create a renewable and sustainable city atmosphere that promotes well being and provides residents the chance to get pleasure from inexperienced locations and open areas in cheerful communities. The undertaking will probably be applied by way of the regional mayoralties in all cities and governorates throughout the Kingdom.
The undertaking enhances efforts to enhance the city atmosphere, improve the standard of life for residents and guests, create alternatives for extra vibrant and affluent communities, and contribute to enhancing tourism attraction and environmental sustainability