People suffer in many ways because of planning and suspended projects.
Since 2002, about 600 households in Ha Dinh Ward (Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi) have been stuck in the suspended Ha Dinh Lake Park project. According to Lao Dong, in lane 192 Ha Dinh Street, around the Ha Dinh Lake area, there are rows of dilapidated old houses that were built in the 2000s.
Although they have to live in makeshift conditions and their houses are seriously degraded, people do not dare to repair them, are not allowed to rebuild them, and cannot mortgage them to borrow capital to do business, making their lives even more miserable.
Mr. Nguyen Tien Giau (residing on Ha Dinh Street, Thanh Xuan District) shared that because he is a war invalid, in 1993 the State granted him a piece of land for resettlement in lane 192 Ha Dinh Street. “From 2002 until now, although we have land and have always paid taxes properly, my family has not been able to build a house or conduct transactions because the house has not been granted a red book due to planning issues,” Mr. Giau lamented.
In Hanoi, there are also many suspended planning and projects that have caused suffering to people for decades. Typical examples include the Dong Da Cultural Park project (Dong Da district); Youth Park (Hai Ba Trung district); the Song Hong City project with 60,000m2 of land being recovered in the Nghia Dung area (Phuc Xa ward, Ba Dinh district) or 370 households in Nhue Giang residential group, Tay Mo ward (Nam Tu Liem district)... causing households within the project planning area to always have to wait anxiously.
Decentralization needs to be specific and violations need to be handled more drastically to limit suspended projects.
According to Dr. Architect Dao Ngoc Nghiem - Vice President of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, there are many reasons for the slow implementation of projects, including management. To limit the situation of suspended projects, the assignment and decentralization of tasks must be more specific and violations must be handled more drastically.
Meanwhile, speaking with Lao Dong, Master Nguyen Van Dinh - Investment and real estate legal expert said that increasing responsibility and sanctions for agencies and organizations that do not implement or do not properly implement regulations on reviewing and adjusting planning will help improve the quality of planning. Because the nature of planning is predictive.
Legally, Mr. Nguyen Van Dinh agrees with the view that it is necessary to enhance responsibility and sanctions for individuals, agencies, and organizations that carry out planning, so that planning and projects are suspended for a long time without a solution. Because currently, there are legal regulations on how long a project can be suspended, people have the right to have opinions to cancel it, and compensate if it is not implemented.
“Lack of coordination between agencies and organizations will lead to overlapping plans, slow implementation, and ultimately lead to consequences affecting urban aesthetics, people's lives, and the investment environment,” said Mr. Dinh. Therefore, state agencies must properly manage planning, review plans on time, and adjust or cancel plans that cannot be implemented.
