Violating rules: CDA withdraws layout plan of AGOCHS-I scheme

Civic body says revised plan, pre-requisites for NOC not submitted within deadline

ISLAMABAD: The civic agency has cancelled the layout plans of AGOCHS-I Housing Scheme, in Zone-V of Islamabad.

The layout plan of AGOCHS-I Housing Scheme, sponsored by the Accounts Group Officers Cooperative Housing Society (AGOCHS), had been approved by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). It was slated to be built over an area measuring 1,114.14 kanals with 573 residential plots in Lohi Bher.



However, Islamabad Mayor and CDA Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz said that no housing society, which violates the prescribed criteria, will be allowed to operate in the capital.

“Action against housing societies violating prescribed criteria will continue,” he said in a statement on Sunday.

It added that CDA had been requesting the management of AGOCHS-I to submit the Mortgage Deed or Transfer Deed, third-party-vetted engineering design as per the approved layout plan and submission of requisite processing fee.

Moreover, the administration of AGOCHS-I had been asked to submit a development plan of the scheme within and beyond the approved layout plan along with ownership documents of encroached land as well as details about the creation of new plots.

The housing scheme’s management committee had maintained in an undertaking to the Federal Ombudsman that revised layout plan of the scheme, incorporating CDA’s standards, would be submitted in the authority by the end of June.



However, CDA noted that the AGOCHS-I had neither submitted the documents, prerequisites for issuance of no-objection certificates, nor submitted the layout plan as per ownership and possession of land.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13^th, 2017.