Ras Al Khaimah: The RAK Municipality yesterday demolished tens of chalets, settings locally known as "Houtas", and other structures built without official permits around Zayed and Rashid Public areas.
The municipality also demolished a football field which youngsters in Al Rams set up on their own by raising funds.
The RAK Municipality has lately been conducting a large scale campaign to demolish such structures all over the emirate which has just implemented the New Municipal Construction Law.
The emirate's Municipality does not make exemptions and demolishes all structures erected without permits. Many of them are spread all over the emirate as places mainly for men to get together for entertainment and practice their hobbies.
Mohammad Saqr Al Asam, the Director General of the RAK Municipality said the structures were demolished after the emirate's municipal authorities had taken all the legal measures and informed the owners about the demolition.
"The municipal authorities installed stickers on the violating constructions and wrote the warning letters with paints on the violating constructions to make their owners fix their status or demolish these constructions themselves as officially they were considered illegal constructions."
Al Asam said many of the structures were also found to have parts built on the streets, parking lots and public areas, where the owners have gone beyond their ownership lines and built on what they never owned and without licence.
He stressed that no demolition took placewithout several advance official warnings. The warning letters were installed around Zayed and Rashid Public areas last March.
The campaign was implemented initially on the Emirates Road where all violating chalets and constructions are already demolished. Once the demolishing process is completed around Zayed and Rashid areas, the work will move to other areas to cover all areas in the emirate.
Emiratis in the northern areas of Ras Al Khaimah complained mainly about the demolition of the football field which the residents built on their own and at their expense.
