Lahore Property News Plazas: LDA probe committees fail

[Salman]

Lahore Property News Plazas: LDA probe committees fail


LAHORE – The inquiry committees of the Lahore Development Authority have failed to complete and produce reports of 12 demolished plazas even after lapsing about two years. Even the committees have not bothered to start the proceedings in this regard to resolve the issue of stakeholders and owners of such plazas as well, insiders informed TheNation.
The LDA marked 31 plazas for demolishing during a crackdown on illegal constructions in the year 2009-10 and they could not prepare assessment report on their financial loss despite direction of the provincial government, the sources further added.
The two different committees were constituted by the government, one as head by Justice ® Amir Raza Khan and the other was headed by then Commissioner Lahore Division Khusro Pervaiz. The both committees were being constituted for reviewing whether the action taken by government against illegal plazas was justified or not.
The action against illegally constructed plazas in the City was initiated by the provincial government and LDA on the orders of Supreme Court, which later was halted for indefinite period on the criticism from different segments of the society including the leaders of different political parties.
Moreover, fate of hundreds of illegally constructed commercial plazas and shops situated at non-commercial areas of LDA’s controlled areas and housing colonies is hanging in balance as the authorities left the issue on discretion of the provincial government.
The sources further informed that the LDA banned further commercial constructions at main boulevards of Johar Town and Gulshan-e-Ravi so far while the authorities could not decide the fate of plazas and shops, already constructed without the permission of the LDA authorities.
However, on the roads falling in proposed Central Business District and under Lahore Urban Regeneration Studies area, the interim policy issued in November 2009 and April 2010 shall remain applicable till the approval of CBD area development plans, they further added.
They said the authorities were making another study in order to finalise their status whether to permit them or not, giving them legal status or to demolish these hundreds of unlawful structures. They said most probably the owners of such structures would be given legal status because demolishing process of such a big number of buildings might be a hard target for the authorities.
In fact, the authorities used to take action against the illegal construction in the LDA controlled areas after completion of such buildings and have very poor mechanism in controlling these illegal constructions before start, they added.
However, 37 roads/segment of roads which were allowed for change of land use include Jail Road, Main Boulevard Gulberg, MM Alam Road Gulberg, segment of Hali Road Gulberg (property no 136 & 64 E-1 Gulberg-III to Property no 114 & 73 E-1 Gulberg-III), Stadium Road Sharah-e-Noor Jehan Gulberg, The Mall, Tariq Road Link MM Alam Road, road Behind Liberty Market, Firdous Market Road, Link Road Main Market (Shezan side), Link Road Main Market (Auriga Side), Ghalib Road Segment (Chen One Road),Main Boulevard Garden Town, Main Boulevard Allama Iqbal Town, Main Boulevard Shadman, Moulana Shaukat Ali Road (segment 1 - Canal Bridge to Model Town Link Road Junction),College Road Township (Akbar Chowk to Ghazi Chowk), Ferozpur Road (Qartaba Chowk to Chungi Amar Sadhu),Sher Shah Road Gujjarpura, Al-Madina Road, Township, Bagrian Road, Township, Main Boulevard Samanabad, Approach Road Tajpura, Part of Road Civic Centre Garden Town, Model Town Link Road, Hamdrad Jail Road (Segment 2 - Plot No 1223-5-D/II to Ghazi Chowk), Shabbir Usmani Road (Y-Junction to M. Shaukat Ali Road), Main Boulevard Shadbagh, College Road, Gulberg (Property numbers 9 and 10 Block K Gulberg 2 to Property numbers 6-H and 24-H Gulberg 2, Park Road, Ali Zeb Avenue, Gulberg , Only Property 1 J Block to 6 J Block Gulberg 3, Link M.M Alam Road, T Block Gulberg-2 Property numbers 9 to Property numbers 14 T Block Gulberg-2, Gurumanget Road, Gulberg Only Right Side coming from College Road, Abul Hasan Isfahani Road, Faisal Town Only Property numbers, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 Block B Faisal Town, Shadman Part of Race Course Road Shahrae Aiwan-e-Tijarat, Property numbers 6 Shadman to Property number 1 Shadman, Link Road Main Boulevard Garden Town Property numbers 13, 14, 47, 48, 80 to 85 Babar Block New Garden Town and Wahdat Road Ferozepur Road to Property number 69 C New Muslim Town.
24 frozen roads /segment of roads not allowed for change of land use include Main Boulevard, Sabzazar Scheme, Main Boulevard, Gulshan-e-Ravi, Tollinton Market Road, Shadman, Zafar Ali Road, Gulberg 5, Campus Bridge Road, Garden Town, Qazi Eesa Road, Faisal Town, Shah Jillani Road, Main Boulevard, PIA Scheme, Main Boulevard Johar Town,(Maulana Shaukat Ali to Shaukat Khanum Hospital), Main Boulevard, Johar Town (Canal Road Link), Main Boulevard, Johar Town (Doctor Hospital Link), bypass road Johar Town (Expo Centre),Khayaban-e- Jinnah Road,Canal Bank Road (district boundary starting from Wagha side upto Thokar Niaz Baig),Canal Bank Road (from Thokar Niaz Baig upto district limit),Link Raiwind Road (From Raiwand to Aitchison Gate), Raiwind Road, Approach Road Shadbagh, Ferozepur Road, Chungi Amar Sadhu to Sua-Asil, Multan Road, Defence Road, Hamdard Jail Road, Township (Segment 1-Pindi Stop Shoukat Ali Road to Plot No 1222-5-D-II ), Shoukat Ali Road, (segment 2 - Model Town Link Road Junction to Railway Crossing), College Road Town Ship, Segment Ghazi Road to 1 and 16-5-C/II.