Strata titles soon for Komtar shoplots and offices

19/01/2004 The Star

More than 1,000 shoplots and offices in Penang's 65-storey Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (Komtar), opened more than 25 years ago, may get their strata titles soon.

Deputy Land and Co-operative Development Minister Dr Tan Kee Kwong said the survey on the complex by the state Survey and National Mapping Department had been completed.

The survey was done following an application for the strata titles by the Penang Development Corporation (PDC), the developer of Komtar.

Dr Tan, who visited the state Survey and National Mapping Department in Penang recently, said the PDC had applied for the strata titles to the state Land and Mines Department in 2001.

The PDC took more than 18 months to make preparations before it made an official application for the strata titles, he said.

He said the state Survey and National Mapping Department was given the task to carry out the survey and make recommendations to the state Land and Mines Department on whether Komtar units should get their strata titles.

State Survey and National Mapping department director Marzuki Mohd Kassim in his briefing to Dr Tan, said he was very confident that the Komtar units would be issued strata titles soon.

He added: “Before my retirement at the end of next month, I should be able to put down my signature to recommend to the state Land and Mines Department that Komtar units be given the strata titles.

“Among the problems faced was the overlapping of ownership of infrastructure such as ‘roads' between premises at the complex.”