Mr. Pham Phu Ngoc - Director of Hoi An Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Center said that in order to implement flood and storm prevention work for relics in the old town, since June 2024, the unit has proactively coordinated with localities and heritage conservation collaborators to review the list of degraded relics in the old town, thereby proposing solutions to reinforce degraded locations or solutions to relocate and demolish relics at risk of collapse to ensure safety during the rainy and stormy season.
The survey results of 36 degraded relics in the old quarter show that there are 10 seriously degraded relics, 17 heavily degraded relics and 9 slightly degraded relics.
“We have proposed that relevant authorities demolish 11 relics because they are no longer able to be supported. These are relics that were supported in previous years, but are now seriously degraded, and there is no feasible solution to continue supporting them.
However, up to now, due to some problems with the mechanism, not to mention the impact on the general landscape of the old quarter when the relic is demolished without a restoration plan, it has not been implemented yet" - Mr. Ngoc said.
In the meantime, the Hoi An Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Center has sent a dispatch to the People's Committees of Minh An, Cam Pho and Son Phong wards requesting that owners of degraded relics take proactive measures to inspect and support their relics themselves.
Specifically, for 10 relics that will not be demolished (at 12/11 Bach Dang; 7/2 Nguyen Hue; 71/4 and 98 Phan Chau Trinh; 23 Tieu La; 26 Tran Quy Cap; 35, 50/9 and 76/18 Tran Phu; 56/10 Le Loi), the center requested the People's Committee of Minh An ward to contact the relic owner to relocate to another place, not to stay inside the relic when storms and floods occur.
At the same time, it is recommended that the People's Committee of Minh An Ward and the People's Committee of Cam Pho Ward contact the owners of some relics to have a plan to demolish them or have measures to cover them outside and hang warning signs not to use the relics when storms or floods occur.
As for the seriously degraded relics, there is no longer any solution to support them, such as house number 56/10 Le Loi, house number 12/11 Bach Dang, house number 76/18 and 68 Tran Phu, Ngu Bang Assembly Hall..., these are collectively owned relics, with no legal representative or responsibility to take care of the restoration and repair.
To ensure the safety of the relic, on December 19, 2023, the center advised the City People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Committee a request for support of 100% of the restoration costs (in Submission No. 258/TTr-UBND), but so far there has been no response from the Provincial People's Committee.
The Center only received Official Dispatch No. 108/STC-NS dated January 10, 2024 from the Department of Finance in response "Requesting the People's Committee of Hoi An City to balance the city budget to carry out the restoration and rescue of seriously degraded relics in Hoi An Ancient Town according to its authority".
According to Mr. Ngoc, because some cases of privately owned and collectively owned relics such as family temples do not have documents left by their ancestors; while according to regulations, the State only supports 45 - 75% of the repair costs, but at this level, people do not have the conditions to do it, especially houses in alleys.
“Now, if there is a big storm, the only way left is to evacuate people from their houses or move them from front to back, from back to front of the house. Therefore, the center has proposed that the City People's Committee consider a special support mechanism (100% funding support) to carry out the restoration and rescue of the above-mentioned relics as soon as possible,” Mr. Ngoc suggested.
According to estimates, to dismantle and repair a relic, the average cost is about 1 billion VND.
Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/noi-lo-di-tich-nha-co-hoi-an-3141461.html
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