‘Blacklisted housing schemes to face action’

FDA DG warns people against buying illegal plots in housing colonies

FAISALABAD:

Faisalabad Development Authority Director General (DG) Dr Faisal Azeem has said that the authority had launched a vigorous campaign against the development of illegal housing colonies across the district.

Chairing a meeting on Saturday, he said that FDA enforcement teams checked the status of various housing schemes, terming 10 of them illegal as they had been developed without completing code formalities and getting prior permission of the competent authority.

The FDA sealed 10 illicit housing colonies during May 2022 and demolished their sales offices and boundary walls, warning their developers to get their schemes legalized before selling plots, otherwise, strict action would be taken against them.

However, eight developers violated the laws again, with cases registered against them in addition to submitting their challans in court.

Similarly, FDA teams also sealed 110 residential plots in various localities including Sir Syed Town, Allama Iqbal Colony, Madina Town, Gulistan Colony and Millat Town, among others, as their owners started their use for commercial purposes without getting commercialisation certificates.

FDA DG appealed to the general public to avoid purchasing any plots in illegal housing colonies.

They would face heavy losses because letters were also forwarded to FESCO, SNGPL, WASA, Revenue and other departments to cut utility services to all illegal colonies.

Additional Director General FDA Rizwan Nazir, Director Town Planning Raheel Zafar, Director Admin Yasir Ejaz Chattha, Deputy Director Town Planning Iqra Murtaza and others were also present in the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2022.