State land at Residences Cité La Chaux, he will state the number of leaseholders thereof, indicating the mec…
(No. B/318) Mr C. Lukeeram (Third Member for Mahebourg & Plaine Magnien) asked the Minister of Housing and Lands whether, in regard to State land at Residences Cité La Chaux, he will state the number of leaseholders thereof, indicating the mechanism, if any, put in place at the Ministry to regularise these leases and/or if consideration will be given to amending the law to make the lessees owners of their lands.
Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am informed that there are three scenarios at Cité La Chaux, Mahebourg found on Pas Géométriques Rivière La Chaux. First, there are two ex-CHA housing states, namely – • Residence La Chaux A, and • Residence La Chaux B comprising some 304 families who are owners of the ex- CHA housing units and are holders of State land leases en bonne et due forme over the plot of land on which stand their houses.
84 Applications for renewal or transfer of leases and subdivision of the plot of land are processed by my Ministry as and when received. Secondly, I am informed by my Ministry that 51 families who were squatting on State land adjoining Residence La Chaux B Housing Estates and three families who were squatting on surplus of land within ex-CHA Housing Estates have been regularised and granted building site pieces over the plots of land in 2005 and 2016, respectively. Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am also informed that there are squatters on some plots of State land at Cité La Chaux and officers of my Ministry are carrying out a survey to assess the real situation on site and take any action as may be appropriate. Allow me at this juncture to point out that even though this is not within the scope of this question, officers of my Ministry are indeed carrying out a survey to find out about the squatting situation, squatters all over Mauritius, in order to apprise oneself of the real situation nationally. As regards whether consideration will be given to amending the law to make the lessees owners of their plots of land, I wish to refer the hon. Member to replies I made to the House to PQ B/38 and PQ B/118 on 04 February 2025 and 04 March 2025, respectively to the effect that Pas Géométriques are inalienable and imprescriptibles. Consequently, the individual plots of State land at Cité La Chaux cannot be sold to occupiers as per Section 5 of the State Lands Act. Thank you.
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