Pembeli rumah
teraniaya 01/05/2000 BH By Insan Teranaiya
SAYA dan keluarga berasa dianaya oleh pemaju perumahan. Sebenarnya bapa saya
membeli sebuah rumah di kawasan Seremban. Taman perumahan itu sudah lama terbengkalai.
Akibatnya kami dan pembeli lain menjadi mangsa. Bapa saya membeli rumah itu
ketika beliau masih berkhidmat dalam tentera lagi. Kalau tidak silap saya
bapa saya membeli rumah itu pada 1985 atau 1986. Apa yang mengejutkan, ketika
bapa saya pergi melawat rumah itu pada 27 Februari lalu pemaju memberitahu
kami sudah boleh duduk di rumah itu selepas membayar wang pendahuluan air
dan elektrik.
Act to be amended
to address woes 03/05/2000 NST
SEREMBAN, Tues. - The Town and Country Planning Act will be amended to create
a long-term structural plan to overcome flooding and to prohibit all future
housing projects on flood-prone low-lying areas. Housing and Local Housing
Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said tonight with the proposed amendment,
rivers would also not be allowed to be filled up and diverted as this would
hinder the river flow.
Penghuni Flet
Sri Tioman diminta sabar 06/05/2000 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) meminta penduduk rumah pangsa
Sri Tioman 11 di Gombak, dekat sini bersabar mengenai tindakan susulan Jabatan
Arkitek dan Projek Khas DBKL terhadap struktur dinding pada tiga blok bangunan
itu yang semakin merekah dan pecah. Pegawai akhbar DBKL, Zakaria Mohamed Lazim,
berkata jabatan memerlukan masa untuk menjalankan kajian terperinci bagi memastikan
kejadian seumpama itu tidak berulang
Sisa najis
masuk rumah 08/05/2000 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Sistem pembetungan saluran najis yang tidak teratur dan terlalu
kecil dipercayai menyebabkan sebuah rumah di flet Sri Labuan, Bandar Tun Razak,
Cheras, di sini, dilimpahi sisa najis, semalam. Penghuni rumah berkenaan,
Mohd Noor Jamaludin, 29, berkata limpahan sisa dan air najis daripada pembetung
terbabit berlaku sejak jam 7.30 pagi
Status rumah
retak diumum 10/05/2000 HM
SUBANG JAYA: Semua pemilik 20 unit rumah di USJ 19, di sini, dijangka menerima
surat secara rasmi daripada pemaju perumahan, Sime UEP Sdn Bhd (Sime UEP)
mengenai status rumah masing-masing selewat-lewatnya minggu depan. Pemilik
yang menghadapi masalah keretakan rumah akan dimaklumkan mengenai keadaan
keselamatan rumah mereka selepas pemeriksaan dijalankan dua pemaju terbabit
termasuk Sanjung Utama Sdn Bhd (Sanjung Utama).
Up against
a wall of problems 10/05/2000 MM
RESIDENTS of Taman Abadi Indah Apartments are fed up with water leakages,
shortage of parking lots and dimmed corridors. They want the apartment's management
company, Abadi Mannien Property Management Sdn Bhd, to do permanent repairs
instead of taking temporary measures.
Joint pact
to gazette open areas 12/05/2000 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - State Governments have agreed to gazette "open areas"
in residential areas to prevent unscrupulous developers from converting them
into commercial areas. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong
Ka Ting said the Cabinet viewed the matter seriously as it did not want residents
to be deprived of open areas in housing estates.
Ensuring builders
have the means 13/05/2000 NST
THE paid-up capital required of applicants for a housing developer's licence
is expected to be increased under the forthcoming amendments to the Housing
Developers Act. Minister of Housing and Local Government Datuk Ong Ka Ting,
in disclosing this, however declined to name the amount to be set under the
amendments.
Ong cracks the whip 15/05/2000 City & Country
His plate is full and he knows it too well. Housing and local Government Minister
Dato’ Seri Ong Ka Ting has finally settled into his five-month-old post comfortably
enough to talk shop.
Abandoned project
revived 18/05/2000 MM By Meor Shariman
THREE years, six chances and after paying more than half the project's cost
of RM2.5 million. That was how long it took to convince the Hulu Langat Drainage
and Irrigation Department (DID) to take a fresh contractor to revive the abandoned
RM2.5 million longhouse project in Ampang Campuran.
This pool's
not for swimming 18/05/2000 MM By Azlan Ramli
UNWANTED "swimming pool" - this huge pool of water, the size of a football
field, is a potential danger to the public (above right). Located at the abandoned
Mont'Kiara Specialist Centre, it is actually the centre's foundation.
Short-lived
joy for house owners 19/05/2000 MM
THEY bought modern houses in a new housing estate but have to endure terrible
infrastructure and backward amenities. There is no children's playground,
hardly a row of streetlights that are working and they have to travel 12km
just to go to a clinic or pump petrol into their cars
Perak allocates
land for sidelined house-buyers 19/05/2000 BT
PERAK has agreed to set aside 15ha as alternative residential plots for 156
buyers of low-cost homes auctioned off without their knowledge by a developer
of a failed project in Bandar Baru Slim River. According to a committee set
up to claim the homes they had paid for 13 years ago, Menteri Besar Datuk
Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali promised the alternative plots during a meeting with
committee members in Ipoh last month.
Pemaju diberi
amaran keras 19/05/2000 HM By Nazura Ngah
PETALING JAYA: Pemaju di Kampung Baiduri, Taman Medan, di sini, diberi tempoh
sehingga akhir bulan ini untuk menyiapkan pelan pembangunan di kawasan berkenaan
yang membabitkan pembinaan 30 peratus rumah kos rendah daripada keseluruhan
projek perumahan. Sekiranya pemaju gagal berbuat demikian, kerajaan negeri
akan mengambil alih pengurusan tanah kawasan itu untuk dibangunkan kediaman
selesa bagi 1,200 keluarga di situ.
Denda kepada
pemaju gagal siapkan projek 20/05/2000 BH
PETALING JAYA, Jumaat - Kerajaan akan mengenakan denda lebih tinggi kepada
pemaju yang gagal menyiapkan projek perumahan mengikut jadual, kata Menteri
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting. Denda lebih tinggi
itu antara cadangan pindaan dalam Akta Pemaju Perumahan 1966 yang kini dalam
peringkat kajian. Serentak itu, semua pemaju perlu menghantar laporan kemajuan
projek menerusi Borang 7F kepada kementerian setiap enam bulan sekali.
Better protection
for house buyers in the works 20/05/2000 BT
THE Housing and Local Government Ministry plans to revamp the Housing Developers
(Control and Licensing) Act 1966 to better protect the rights of housebuyers
and ensure stiffer penalties for errant developers. Minister Datuk Seri Ong
Ka Ting said a committee formed to amend the Act has almost reached completed
its task, and the ministry is expected to announce details before the end
of the year.
Checks on developers'
financial background 21/05/2000 NSUNT
IPOH, Sat. - A committee has been set up to check the financial background
of developers applying for Government projects to build low-cost houses, following
several abandoned projects. The committee, chaired by Menteri Besar Datuk
Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, will ensure that buyers are not cheated.
Lesen untuk
pemaju perlu diperketat 21/05/2000 BM
KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan perlu memperketat lesen pemaju perumahan dengan memastikan
hanya mereka yang memiliki kemampuan kewangan dan pengalaman secukupnya di
bidang pembinaan, diberi lesen beroperasi sebagai pemaju. Ini penting bagi
mengelak pelbagai masalah seperti projek terbengkalai, rumah lewat disiapkan
serta penggunaan bahan mentah yang tidak berkualiti akibat pemaju tidak mempunyai
wang secukupnya.
Checks on developers'
financial background 21/05/2000 NSUNT
IPOH, Sat. - A committee has been set up to check the financial background
of developers applying for Government projects to build low-cost houses, following
several abandoned projects. The committee, chaired by Menteri Besar Datuk
Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, will ensure that buyers are not cheated.
DBKL dalam
proses lantik kontraktor 23/05/2000 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) dalam proses melantik kontraktor
pakar untuk melakukan kerja pembaikan bagi mengatasi kejadian tampalan simen
terjatuh di rumah pangsa Sri Tioman 2, Gombak, di sini. Pegawai Akhbar DBKL,
Rozielawati Rahmat, berkata Jabatan Arkitek dan Projek Khas DBKL menyedari
masalah penduduk terbabit dan susulan daripada aduan mereka, pihak berkenaan
mengadakan beberapa mesyuarat membincangkan tindakan yang perlu diambil.
Condo ad to
clarify leasehold period 24/05/2000 MM
THE Prima Setapak Condominium project advertisement will see an additional
clause. The present ad says the leasehold is for 99 years. The developer Kumpulan
Sejahtera Sdn Bhd, will now make it clearer - 20 years have already lapsed
and there are only 79 years to go.
Refunded for
shorter leasehold 27/05/2000 MM
ONE of the two housebuyers of the Prima Setapak Condominium project had his
RM5,000 booking fee refunded in full when he found out the 99-year lease had
only 79 years to go. The other buyer did not mind the shorter leasehold period,
and after listening to the sales personnel, went ahead with the purchase.
