Cerun - "Nailing System"

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Friday April 13, 2007

Godown district coming up near KLIA

By DHARMENDER SINGH

THE Selangor government will develop a new godown district near the KL International Airport for use as a trading facility.

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the state planned to create the facility on a 480ha site through its development arm Perbadanan Kemajuan Negri Selangor (PKNS).

“I want Selangor to move into more trading activities and I have seen how they have managed to run their godowns in Los Angeles during my visit there last week,” he said after chairing a state executive council meeting in Shah Alam.

He said he had also asked PKNS to use more open development concepts like those used in the United States where the designs were more relaxed but practical.

He was also impressed at how development in the US was able to ensure the security of the neighbourhoods through their designs while being environmentally friendly.

“We want developers here to also look into including these features in their future developments,” he said.

Speaking on the Malaysia Airports Bhd Employees Co-operative’s (Komab) development in Selayang, Dr Khir said the co-operative had been given the option to use a “nailing system” to strengthen the slope instead of tearing down 26 houses to terrace it.

He said Kumpulan Ikram Sdn Bhd had studied the slope and found that it could be strengthened using the nailing technique.

The state government had, on March 28, directed the co-operative to tear down the 26 houses as the state government would not allow the buffer zone for a dam to be used to create the terraces.

Komab was also fined RM250,000 for failing to follow the development plan approved by the Selayang Municipal Council.

Dr Khir said the cost for the nailing technique would be the same as that to demolish the houses as the co-operative would have to compensate the affected house buyers if it took up the latter option.

“We have not set any deadline for Komab but we will not issue a Certificate of Fitness (CF) until the works have been completed,” he said.

Dr Khir also called on house buyers to understand the government’s stand when it refused to issue CFs for projects where the developer had failed to provide the infrastructure as stipulated in the building conditions.

“We stop CFs from being issued to protect buyers because the developers will wash their hands of the issue once they obtain the certificates. There will be no one to take responsibility if, for example, the houses collapse,” he said.

He said the state government often became a punching bag for both developers and buyers whenever it stopped the issuance of the CF for failure to follow the development plans.