waste of time.

They spent 20 minutes talking about upcoming developments by Nakheel, just what we all wanted to hear... NOT!


Then the talked about all the things they are planning to do at IC, such as build more basketball courts, add trees for shade, add a communal park. Then a further 10 minutes going through the survey residents completed. they sent out 14,000 and got 1400 responses, loads of pie charts about ages, race, method of transport, salary bracket, number of people per apartment etc etc etc. The survey results on Nakheels response to maintenance issues came out at 53% positive. 13% were very unhappy with the service. They said there was over crowding in some apartments which will be addressed.

Then this bus ops manager talked about how we should curb our water use and buy low energy bulbs and appliances and how it takes 700 years for a plastic bottle to decompose. then he talked about adding more re-cycling bins to IC by the end of next week and how they are going to start recycling polystyrene and all that.

They touched on the sewage issue for less than 2 minutes near the beginning, saying that its not their fault it smells so bad, it wouldn't normally be like that but because the sewage plant is being overworked and there is a shortage of sewage treatment plants they have to transfer the sewage when its wet which causes the smell (apparently, normal sewage treatment plants leave it out to dry first then transfer it, reducing the smell) they also said that some of the sewage trucks are just leaking the sewage out of their trucks in IC. Anyway, it wont be shut down, think they are just going to try and control the smell.

The petrol station outside IC is being knocked down next month to make another entrance into IC. Funnily enough everyone was late for the meeting because they were all stuck in traffic trying to get into IC. Nakheel admitted it takes nearly 20 minutes to get into IC because of the severe traffic backup by Dragon Mart. The new entrance should be open by the end of next month.


I didn't stay for the Q&A session because after an hour and 15 minutes of their corporate spin I'd had enough. Poor turnout though, only about 75 people there.

That was about it really so nothing positive to report.

Oh, they did mention plans of aswimming pool being built in IC.