6 projek rumah tiada pembeli
01/03/1992 BM
SEREMBAN, Sabtu - Ketiadaan pembeli menyebabkan sekurang-kurangnya
enam projek perumahan di daerah ini, Kuala Pilah dan Port Dickson
terbengkalai, kata Timbalan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Bertindak
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan negeri, Dr Teow Chai Thiam. Menurut
beliau, orang ramai tidak berminat memberi rumah yang ditawarkan itu
kerana kedudukannya tidak sesuai.
Houses exempted from safety rules
01/03/1992 NSUNT
KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - The Uniform Building By-law which empowers
the Fire Services Department to enforce certain safety standards in
buildings, including factories and flats, however does not cover
private dwellings, a department official said today. The Fire
Services Department's public relations officer, Encik Mohamed
Abdullah, said that paragraph 256 of the by-law stated that private
dwellings, like houses with single family occupancy, were exempted
from the requirements of safety standards in the by-law.
Deadline
03/03/1992 BT
DEVELOPERS of abandoned housing projects under the low-cost housing
special programme will be given until the end of the Sixth Malaysia
Plan period in 1995 to revive them, Housing and Local Government
Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh said. To date 152 abandoned housing
projects have been revived, he added.
Kelewatan CFO dikaji: Ting
04/03/1992 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Selasa - Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan
akan mengkaji cara untuk mengatasi kelewatan pengeluaran Sijil
Kelayakan Menduduki (CFO) agar pembeli tidak menghuni rumah yang
belum disahkan layak untuk didiami. Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan
Tempatan, Dr Ting Chew Peh, berkata kelewatan pengeluaran CFO antara
punca yang menyebabkan ramai pembeli tidak menyedari mendiami rumah
tanpa CFO apabila pemaju menyerahkan kunci.
Panel to look into ways of speeding up CF approval
04/03/1992 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - The Housing and Local Government Ministry
has set up a committee to look into ways to speed up the issuing of
certificate of fitness for occupation (CF). Its Minister Dr Ting
Chew Peh said today: "We are very concerned about it as we have
received a lot of complaints from house buyers over delays in the
issuing of CFs by the local authority."
CCM bad loans cut
04/03/1992 BT By Wan Nong Rezal
CREDIT Corporation Malaysia (CCM), having revived several abandoned
housing projects over the last 24 months, has successfully reduced bad
loans by more than half to $80 million over the same period. The finance
company had some $180 million exposure in bad loans as the result of
housing projects which were abandoned during the recession of the mid
1980s.
Counsel: City Hall's order void
06/03/1992 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - An order made by the Datuk Bandar in allowing
the construction of two condominium blocks at Persiaran Tunku was
void, the High Court here was told today. Counsel Cecil Abraham said
there was a breach of natural justice as a Bukit Tunku resident,
Datin Azizah Abdul Ghani, was not given an opportunity to be heard.
Badan bincang kelewatan CFO dibentuk
07/03/1992 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Jumaat - Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan
menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa untuk berbincang dengan pemaju
perumahan dan pihak berkuasa tempatan bagi mengenal pasti punca
kelewatan pengeluaran Sijil Kelayakan Menduduki (CFO). Menteri
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting Chew Peh, berkata
jawatankuasa yang dipengerusikan oleh timbalannya, Osu Sukam, akan
berbincang secara berasingan dengan pemaju perumahan serta pihak
berkuasa tempatan.
Panel to resolve issue of late CFs
07/03/1992 NST By Jeffrey
Ramayah
KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. - A special committee will be set up to seek
solutions to the delay in the issuance of certificates of fitness
(CF) for occupation. This is to enable housebuyers to move into
their new homes once their houses are completed and supplied with
electricity and water.
Three year wait for CF
07/03/1992 MM
*LIM of Old Klang Road wonders when she will obtain the Certificate
of Fitness for the apartment she bought three years ago. "The
developer handed over the key to my apartment in Taman Sri Endah in
March last year but without the CF," she says.
Pembeli dakwa teraniaya
09/03/1992 HM
KAJANG: Beribu-ribu pembeli rumah di Taman Kantan Permai dekat sini
mendakwa teraniaya berikutan kegagalan pemaju menyiapkan rumah
mereka sejak setahun lalu. Pembeli projek fasa pertama di taman
perumahan itu sepatutnya menduduki rumah masing-masing Jun lalu,
tetapi sehingga ini rumah berkenaan masih belum siap manakala
cerucuk besi baru ditanam bagi pembinaan fasa kedua.
KWSP: Polis siasat penipuan
10/03/1992 BH By M Thillinadan
KUALA LUMPUR, Isnin - Polis Cawangan Jenayah Perdagangan sedang
menyiasat 79 pencarum yang dipercayai menipu Kumpulan Wang Simpanan
Pekerja (KWSP) membabitkan lebih setengah juta ringgit. Mereka
dipercayai menggunakan dokumen palsu, termasuk borang perjanjian
jual beli dan kad pengenalan pemaju perumahan, untuk mengeluarkan
wang caruman daripada KWSP.
Long delay in getting her CF 14/03/1992 MM
* JUNE of Puchong is wondering why she has not received the
permanent Certificate of Fitness (CF) for her new house at Taman
Subang Indah in Subang Jaya. She bought the doublestorey house in
1989 and received the keys last November after a delay of two
months.
Kerajaan hentikan insentif
18/03/1992 BH
SEREMBAN, Selasa - Kerajaan negeri kini menghentikan pemberian
insentif kepada pemaju perumahan yang terbabit dalam pembinaan rumah
mengikut Program Khas
Perumahan Kos Rendah (PKPKR). Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul
Samad, berkata keputusan itu dibuat berikutan tindakan pemaju
perumahan yang enggan
menurunkan harga rumah kos rendah bernilai $25,000 sekarang kepada
kadar berpatutan.
Claims exceed
compensation fund, so clients risk inadequate refunds 18/03/1992
NST By Azmi M. Anshar
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - While the Bar Council sticks to its 1988
no-confidence resolution against Lord President Tun Abdul Hamid Omar, the
victims of crooked lawyers are seeing their hopes of being adequately
compensated disappearing before their very eyes. This is because the
amount of claims far outstrips the Bar Council Compensation Fund.
Builder
offers credit card plan
18/03/1992 NST-CITYX
A LOCAL developer has come up with a plan to allow housebuyers to use
credit cards to make downpayments on houses at its project at Bukit
Beruntung. Europlus Corporation Sdn Bhd, in a statement, said the facility
can be used by buyers at its Bandar Bukit Beruntung project.
Taman
Raub Utama housing
18/03/1992 NST
I BOOKED a house in Taman Raub Utama (formerly known as Taman Rakyat)
which is next to the Raub district hospital on Jan 3, 1974. The developer
of the scheme started work in 1979. Work stopped later that year after the
electrical wiring, plumbing and internal plastering had been completed.
Issuing CF: New procedure
19/03/1992 BT
HOUSING consultant firms will be required to get the approval of
all relevant government agencies before applying for the certificate
of fitness of occupation (CF) for houses, Deputy Minister of Housing
and Local Government, Encik Osu Sukam, said in Kuala Lumpur
yesterday. He said this would facilitate local government
authorities concerned issuing the certificate within two weeks after
receiving the Form "E" submitted by consultant firms. "The new
procedure transfers the responsibility of getting approval of
agencies concerned from local government authorities to consultant
firms," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He said the
Johor Baru Municipal Council, Kuantan Muncipal Council, Ipoh City
Hall, Housing Developers Association (HDA) and Malaysian Institute
of Architects agreed to the procedure at yesterday's meeting. Other
local government authorities will be notified of the procedure at a
meeting to be held soon, he said. - Bernama
20 kes tipu KWSP di Kelantan
20/03/1992 BH
KOTA BHARU, Khamis - Polis Kelantan menyiasat 20 kes menggunakan
dokumen palsu untuk mengeluarkan caruman Kumpulan Wang Simpanan
Pekerja (KWSP) bagi membeli rumah. Ini berikutan kejayaan polis
menahan seorang lelaki berusia 29 tahun di Kota Bharu pada 24
Februari lalu kerana disyaki menjalankan kegiatan memalsukan dokumen
permohonan mengeluarkan caruman KWSP, termasuk penggunaan surat
palsu pemaju perumahan.
House grouse
20/03/1992 MM
* SIM says she is unable to realise her dream of moving into her new
house in Taman Koperasi Cuepacs because the developer has not
started construction work on the project. Sim of Semenyih paid the
deposit for a double storey link house in 1987 and, according to the
agreement signed, it was to be delivered to her within three years.
Project to be managed under new account
21/03/1992 BT
THE SeriMas condominium project being developed by Amber Resources
is the first to be managed under the new project account opened by
developers to protect house buyers, its chairman Lim Fung Chee said
yesterday. All sales proceeds were managed by Aseambankers Malaysia
to give added comfort and assurance to buyers that the developer has
a vested interest to ensure completion of the project, he told
reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
City
Hall plan to sell building plans soon
21/03/1992 NST
IPOH, Fri. - City Hall will soon launch its own ready-made
building plans which will be sold to consumers who can then use them
to renovate their houses. The idea, which comes in the wake of the
controversy over illegal extensions, is timely as houseowners using
such plans will save both time and money.
Mangsa rumah retak dibantu
23/03/1992 BH
KUANTAN, Ahad - Kerajaan Pahang berjanji akan menyelesaikan masalah
kira-kira 2,000 mangsa rumah retak di kawasan perumahan kos rendah
Bandar Indera Mahkota, dekat sini, dengan segera. Ahli Parlimen
Kuantan, Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman, berkata kerajaan memberi jaminan
itu sewaktu beliau dan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Sungai
Lembing, Datuk Ibrahim Taib, menemui Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Mohd
Khalil Yaakob, minggu lalu.
Sengaja pasang perangkap maut
24/03/1992 HM
SEGAMBUT: Rumah dijadikan perangkap maut... Kira-kira 60 peratus
daripada 2,200 penghuni Taman Sri Sinar, di sini, sengaja menempah
maut apabila menyambung struktur di bahagian belakang rumah mereka
tanpa mempunyai ruang menyelamatkan diri jika berlaku kebakaran.
CF sementara bersyarat
25/03/1992 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) akan memberi
sijil kelayakan (CF) sementara bersyarat kepada 1,522 unit rumah
di Taman Sri Sinar, Segambut, di sini. Bagaimanapun, syarat itu
hanya dikenakan terhadap pemaju perumahan itu, Segambut Jaya Sdn
Bhd.
3 pemilik satu rumah
28/03/1992 HM
JOHOR BAHRU: Tiga pemilik bagi sebuah rumah di Taman Dahlia di
sini? Itu tidak termasuk penghuni keempat yang dikatakan
menceroboh masuk dan menduduki rumah itu sebagai setinggan moden
di taman perumahan itu. Rumah No 74, Jalan Dahlia 22, Taman Dahlia
kini dituntut oleh tiga pembeli yang masing-masing mendakwa ia
rumah mereka selepas membayar cengkeram kepada pemajunya beberapa
tahun lalu.
Taman Dahlia diceroboh
28/03/1992 HM
JOHOR BAHRU: Hampir 100 penduduk dipercayai mencerobohi beberapa
rumah terbengkalai di Taman Dahlia dekat sini sebagai penghuni
setinggan sejak 10 tahun lalu. Sepanjang tempoh itu juga, lebih
6,000 penduduk di taman perumahan itu dikatakan menduduki 1,150
daripada 1,349 unit rumah di situ tanpa Sijil Kelayakan Menduduki
(CF) hingga sekarang.
Tiada syor serap `Bina Sebelum Jual'
29/03/1992 BM
AIR TAWAR: Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan belum
bercadang menjadikan konsep `Bina Sebelum Jual' sebagai sebahagian
daripada Dasar Perumahan Negara, kata Menterinya, Dr Ting Chew Peh.
Bagaimanapun, beliau menjelaskan kerajaan mengambil sikap terbuka
terhadap konsep itu dan dalam masa yang sama menggalakkan pemaju
mengamalkannya.
Koh: Developer won't be given
another chance
31/03/1992 NST
SEREMBAN, Mon. - The developer of the proposed Penang Hill
development project will not be given another chance to undertake
the project. Penang Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon said last night
the decision to scrap the project by Bukit Pinang Leisure Sdn Bhd
was final and the company would not be allowed a third opportunity
to continue with the project following the rejection of its second
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report by the Department of
Environment (DOE).
