CDA declares Ghori Town phases in zones IV, V illegal

Says schemes launched by developers on Islamabad Highway and Lehtrar Road

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has declared all phases of Ghori Town in zone IV and Zone V as an illegal housing society.

Islamabad Mayor Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Anser Aziz said that the authority has further accelerated the action against illegal housing schemes.

All concerned formations of the authority are acting upon a coordinated strategy to ensure enforcement of CDA’s prevailing rules in this regard.

In this connection, a comprehensive media campaign is being launched to warn the general public about these illegally operating housing societies in different zones of Islamabad.

Aziz expressed these views while chairing a meeting at CDA Headquarters to review the progress of Building Control Directorates. Senior officers of the Building Control Directorates and Planning Wing were also present in the meeting.



On this occasion, meeting was informed that strict action is being taken against illegal housing schemes societies.

In this regard, the meeting was informed that CDA has declared all phases of Ghori Town Housing Society in Zone IV and Zone V as illegal.

A public notice in this regard has been published in leading newspapers which states that as per CDA Ordinance 1960, ICT (Zoning) Regulation 1992 and modalities and procedures framed under ICT (Zoning) Regulation, Ghori Town’s all phases launched in Zone-IV and Zone V of the ICT by Raja Ali Akber and Company and Abdur Rehman Associates on Islamabad Highway and Lehtrar Road are illegal housing schemes being advertised and marketed without any approval from CDA.

The sponsors of the illegal and unauthorised Ghori Town (all phases) scheme have not provided land and plots for parks, playgrounds, open spaces, schools, mosques, dispensaries, health centres , graveyard, public amenity plots as per the Land Use Standards prescribed in the ICT (Zoning) Regulation 1992 and the Modalities and Procedures framed there under.



Moreover, they have failed to developed utility infrastructure network i.e, water supply network, sewerage network with Sewerage Treatment Plant, Drainage Network, etc. in Ghori Town (all phases) up to standard creating environmental hazards, not only for the residents of unauthorised Ghori Town (all phases) but the entire surrounding area zone. Furthermore, these societies have been cheating the general public and minting money at the cost of the health and safety of the general public.

The meeting was further briefed about the public notice that residential buildings plazas and commercial buildings in the illegal scheme of Ghouri Town (all phases) are being constructed without obtaining approval of building plans from CDA which is alarming and a potential threat to life and property of the residents as Islamabad Building Control Regulations 2005 are not being adhered to.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 5^th, 2017.