via Phnom Penh Post, 06 January 2022: The local government is working to secure the land titles for heritage sites in Kampong Speu.
The Kampong Speu Department of Culture and Fine Arts is in the process of registering land titles and demarcating boundaries at the 464 cultural heritage sites in the province that have been discovered since 2021. Only 16 of the 464 sites have been demarcated with boundary poles to date.
Department director Sun Meanchey said on January 5 that the designated sites include temples, burial mounds, shrines, crematoriums, graveyards, reservoirs, resort areas, bridges and more. A total of 285 pagodas also had their locations and descriptions noted for the official records.
He said none of the sites have official land titles, so the culture ministry has requested that the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction facilitate the process of registering the sites and issuing land titles in order to help protect these cultural heritage sites throughout the province.
“From 2022 onward, we will make an effort to speed up the process of issuing the land titles. The work will first begin at all conflict-prone or high-risk areas in order to get ahead of problems like land grabs because development in the province is growing remarkably quickly even amid the Covid-19 pandemic,” Meanchey said.
Source: K Speu culture department seeks heritage site land titles | Phnom Penh Post
