Writer: Alvin Yap
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
SUBANG JAYA: Owners of an exclusive hilltop community are demanding that their developer honour promises that their view will not be obstructed by an upcoming project.
According to the Puteri 11 Residents’ Association (RA) committee members, the view of Puchong was a selling point of their homes, but a five-storey townhouse project currently being built on the lower slopes would jeopardise this.
"We committed ourselves to buying the houses eight years ago on the strength of the view it gives but we’re worried the project will now block it," said RA chairperson Alice Choo at a meeting between residents, Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) and the property developer.
Residents of Puteri 11- consisting of 471 terrace houses and the 615-unit Puteri Bayu apartments - want the developer of the project to resubmit plans to MPSJ.
Choo and Puteri Bayu RA chairperson Victor Chan.
The property developer should redraft its plans to ensure that the 120-unit five-storey duplex townhouses would not obstruct the surrounding view.
She criticised MPSJ for approving the project without getting and considering Traffic Impact and Slope Stability studies.
"If you had the studies, you would not have approved the project," said Choo, adding that the project would create more congestion along Jalan Puteri 1/11.
IOI Properties senior project manager Esmond Khor said they had revised the project from an initial 422-unit condominium to the current townhouse plan.
Khor said the company had engaged independent engineering consultants Kumpulan IKRAM to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment studies as well as traffic studies.
However, Khor said the studies were not compiled in time to be presented to the RAs during yesterday’s meeting.
As such, MPSJ councillor Tan Jo Hann - in charge of Pusat Bandar Puchong and Bandar Puteri Puchong - set a meeting for the developer to brief the residents in a month’s time.
Puchong member of Parliament Gobind Singh Deo, who is acting as legal representative for the residents, said it was a case of misrepresentation by the developer.
"Residents have valid grouses. They bought the property on the promise that they would get the view they were promised in the brochure," he told Khor and his team.
He said while there could be grounds for legal action, it was up to the residents to think about initiating such a move.
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