Demolition at the cost of uplift projects

[Lahore_Real_Estate]

LAHORE - Excess is bad in all shapes. The dictum enshrined in the preceding line applies to the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) in the case of shifting full focus towards demolishing illegal high-rise buildings, leading to a sharp decline in concentration on all heavy-budgeted development projects including City’s second multi-storey parking plaza at Liberty near the United Christian Hospital (UCH) costing Rs500 million.
Owing to LDA and TEPA’s overwhelming involvement in pulling down plazas completely and partially, the project of 7-storey parking plaza has fallen short of its deadline.
The parking plaza was to be completed in December 2009 as per the announcement made by CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif while laying down foundation stone of the project on July 31, 2009. However, the plaza is still under-construction. Despite the fact that the parking plaza has crossed its deadline, development work could not pick momentum.
Sources in TEPA revealed that entire machinery with manpower was engaged in the work of razing out illegal structures built in violation of building bylaws and approved map on the instruction of the Supreme Court. “The scope of the work was so enormous that officials concerned did not have even a second to consume for other development works,” they maintained and added that the demolition operation had impaired the parking plaza project that had to ease parking problem in the City.