The Minister of Housing and Urban Policy, Mohammed Nabil Benabdallah, carried out a field visit last Friday to the new city of Lakhyayta to learn about the progress of the city, positioned at the heart of the Casablanca-Settat region. Speaking on this occasion, the Minister recalled that Lakhyayta is part of the New Cities Programme, which aims to create a varied supply of housing for different social strata, to organise and anticipate projected urban development and to create a living environment that meets the principles of sustainable development. The Minister also visited the road dualisation projects carried out by the Al Omrane Group as part of the construction of access roads to Urban and Industrial Pole 1 of the new city of Lakhyayta and the municipality of Had Soualem over a total length of 4.5 km, for a total investment of 57 million DH. Nabil Benabdallah visited the new public middle school which will open this school year and which will benefit both the inhabitants of Lakhyayta and those of the urban commune of Had Soualem. He also visited several other projects, including the "Assanaoubar" social housing programme, the "Arrihane" programme relating to 140,000 DH housing, and the project of semi-finished villas recently received by the Al Omrane Lakhyayta company, thus demonstrating the importance given by the Al Omrane Group to social diversity with the aim of creating an integrative and inclusive city.

The President of the Al Omrane Group, Badre Kanouni, for his part recalled on this occasion the objectives of the New Cities policy which is part of Morocco's major modernisation projects, while stressing the importance of the participatory and pragmatic approach for the realisation of this major structuring project. He added that the group was working with its various partners for the construction of several other local facilities at Pole I, with the aim of increasing its attractiveness and ensuring a level of equipment worthy of a new city at the gates of the Kingdom's economic capital. This involves 4 public facilities and 6 local facilities by 2016.