Objections to Proposed Developments
The next time you see a small white signboard about the size of a white board, located at the edge of an empty piece of land, read it. If it is a ‘notis pemberitahuan’, then that would be a notice board required by any developer who wishes to developer any piece of land. The purpose of this little notice board is to notify the residents living around the proposed site of the following:
• The submission that has been put forth to the local authority;
• The file number of the submission, and brief details like number of units, type of development and number of storeys the buildings have;
• That residents have the right to put in the objection to the local authority if they wish to do so. There is usually a grace period for this, most council put it at 2 weeks;
• The name and address of the developer.
While the size of notice board is standard, a lot of people fail to notice it much less pay attention to it, which means the grace period for recording any objections, passes without fuss. Some local councils actually send the similar notice to neighbors by mail.
The thing to note that this notice board is NOT the same as the project signboard. The project signboard is erected after all approvals have been obtained and the developer starts work.
This whole thing is significant because usually when the planning, building plan and earthwork approval is given to the developer, and when their contractors start work, it is only then when the residents around the neighborhood start protesting. While the residents have every right and recourse to object, the local council usually will not stop the development because the approval has been given – unless it comes from a higher authority like the MB or a federal agency. But in most cases, the council would have deemed that they have studied the development from all aspects during the building plan stage, including getting approval from 14 different technical departments like JKR, JPS, IKRAM and JMG.
We’re not saying that residents can’t object at any one time to protect their rights. The point is this – object BEFORE the project is approved. You have higher chance of succeeding.
What happens if you object? Well, we will cover that in the next article… when we get round to writing it.
Hi,
Can you do a review on Twin Palms, Sungai Long? Thanks
zemmhassim,
you can read the review here:
http://propertymalaysia.blogsome.com/2007/09/30/twin-palms-sungai-long-areca-and-palmyra/
Comment by zemmhassim — September 28, 2007 @ 6:10 pm