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Oman National
Spatial
Strategy
Project
Strategy that keeps the country
MOvING
K&A team The Supreme Council for Planning goals and objectives of Oman
is working (SCP) awarded Khatib & Alami Vision 2020 and Oman Vision
on Oman's (K&A) the consultancy services to 2040 as they are developed.
regional spatial prepare regional spatial strategies The core principles guiding
strategies and and a national transport survey Phase3 include the integration
the traffic in the Sultanate of Oman. This of spatial and economic
survey covering is the third Phase of the Oman planning; equity in land use
34% of the National Spatial Strategy Project policies and processes; improved
country’s area. (the ONSS Project) which entails resources allocation, urban form,
building Oman’s future planning environmental quality and quality
system and shaping the strategic of life; public engagement; human
direction of the Sultanate. resource development; and
The ONSS Project involves sustainability.
the preparation of a land use The project has a land area of
framework for development at 112,700km2, a construction cost
a national and regional level, of $271 million and the design is
incorporating regional strategies expected to reach completion in
for all governorates and policies 2018.
for the implementation of a
spatial strategy based on the
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