Tehran Municipality coinues the construction of the Darband gate in the territory of the registered works.
Darband eertainme area of Tehran should be considered the ceer of urban lawlessness and violations. In the days when some people re parking spaces near the erance of this axis by occupying the street and restauras are carving the mouain and creating space for themselves, Tehran Municipality is also building a strange gate at the erance of Darband.
Darband is one of the most famous eertainme ceers in the north of Tehran. The busyness of this axis has caused any person with the motive of making profit to engage in all kinds of illegal behavior in this natural and historical axis. These days, apparely organized people occupy all the car parking spaces near the Darband erance and give them to tourists at exorbita prices. On the other hand, Darband restauras, especially its famous and big restauras, are the absolute owners of the region. They easily allow their customers’ cars to eer the pedestrian walkway, block a part of the path with customers’ car park, and some are adding mouains to their restaura environme.
In such a situation, the municipality of the first district of Tehran is building a gate at the erance of the Darband axis, in a strange plan, violating the law of preservation of national registers. A gate that the Cultural Heritage Departme of Shemiranat has repeatedly emphasized on the illegality of its construction; But it seems that the municipality, like other beneficiaries of Darband, coinues with its plans without paying atteion to the rules and regulations. The construction of this gate, which the municipality considers cultural, is against the laws of cultural heritage and has disturbed the privacy of two nationally registered works, “Climber Statue” and “Historical Axis of Darband – North”.
Morteza Nikro, the director of Tehran Shemiranat’s cultural heritage departme, had previously told “Kejaro” about the construction of this gate:
Darband axis is a national registration axis. So far, we have repeatedly announced orally and in writing to the Municipality of Tehran Region 1 that for any construction in this axis, they must be in harmony with the cultural heritage; Nevertheless, the municipality coinues to work. Based on this, in April, a letter was issued stating that Darband’s river axis is in the national register, and for building there, they must obtain a cultural heritage inquiry. So far, a letter has been se to the mayor of Region 1 to stop the construction of the gate for the Darband tourist area. But this institution coinues to work.
On the other hand, there is a concern that after the construction of this gate, the municipality will take the erance and close this recreational and sports route of Tehran at will; This happened before and the public rights of the citizens of Tehran in the freedom to use public places have been taken away. The gate, which the mayor of the first district of Tehran considers to be a redesign of the historical gates of Tehran and a cultural action, these days has not only created car traffic in Darband, but has also blocked the passage of tourists. Currely, there is only a very narrow axis in this gate under construction for the ery of cars and tourists, and the prese ages who are busy selling parking spaces around the statue square, most of the time block the path of pedestrians. The incide that happened before the completion of the gate shows how much problems will be caused by the plan that Tehran Region 1 Municipality claims to be carried out by the best experts.
Darband Gate has no history and threatens the history and cultural heritage of Tehran. However, despite the warnings, the factors involved coinue to build it regardless. By installing an explanatory program on this building blocking the cultural and natural landscape of Darband, the Municipality of Region 1 considers this plan a new eve and iroduces it as the cultural tourism developme plan of Darband. Although, based on the curre situation of Darband’s famous axis, instead of developme, it needs to be monitored so that the beneficiaries do not repeatedly destroy its privacy and landscape; An action that the municipality is repeating now.
It should be noted that “Kajaro” is following up on the case of violation of the privacy of nationally registered works by Tehran Municipality by building this gate through the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Tehran Province.
