Kuwait Municipality has drawn a line it wants householders to read before their next renovation: clearing the rubble from building, demolition and repair work is not the municipality’s job. It belongs to the contractor, or to the owner of the property.
Hameedi Al-Mutairi, who runs the safety department in Jahra governorate, said the debris is expected to be gone within three to seven days at the outside, depending on the size of the job — and that the municipality routinely tells owners to put that in writing.
Two clauses worth insisting on
- The contractor clears construction debris promptly, within seven days at most.
- The contractor supplies construction skips, parked at the site for the duration of the work.
Who gets the ticket
The municipality’s «Build, don’t wreck» campaign is currently focused on construction debris. Where a contract exists between owner and contractor, the citation is written against the contractor. For small jobs on private housing — the sort of repair nobody took out a licence for — it is written against the owner.
Al-Mutairi warned that penalties under the safety regulations can run to serious sums, and can hold up the company’s and the owner’s business besides.
One last point: debris from work on your own property has to go to the designated disposal sites, not into a heap on the street outside.
Photograph: entity card, the State of Kuwait emblem over a blurred background. Photograph by Kuwait One.
Source: statement by the head of the safety department, Jahra governorate, Kuwait Municipality, reported by Al-Rai, 1 October 2026.
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