Bahrain’s Manama Municipal Council is seeking the approval for a new zoning plan that would reserve the shores of the Seef area for commercial and residential skyscrapers up to 50 storeys tall.
The plan aims to mitigate the impact of such developments on residential neighbourhoods further inland, by organising Seef District while still allowing investors who purchased land to go ahead with developments.
“We can’t stop investors from building their projects and at the same time we can’t force investments on residents who have lived there way before it became an attractive hub,” Mohammed Mansoor,council vice-chairman and area councillor, told the Gulf Daily News. 
“It will mean that plots near homes could be developed, beginning with six-storey buildings and ending with 50-storey buildings as you approach the sea.”
