Performance bond for developers

The Star 20/1/2006 By DHARMENDER SINGH

THE Subang Jaya and Sepang municipal councils will impose an additional condition on all developers with projects near Taman Putra Prima, forcing them to place a “performance bond.’’

Dengkil assemblyman Suhaimi Ghazali said the main road was facing serious damage due to the large number of heavy vehicles using the road and a large amount of sand had fallen on the road from lorries carrying earth.

He said both councils had directed the developers in their respective areas to clean up the earth and restore the road once the development was complete.

He added that the bond would be forfeited if the companies failed to do so and the money used by the councils to carry out the repairs.

Suhaimi visited the road connecting Jalan Puchong to Taman Putra Prima with Seri Serdang assemblyman Datuk Satim Diman and officials from both councils.

Taman Putra Prima residents have been complaining about the situation for the past three years.

Satim said he was working together with Suhaimi to look into solutions to the problem and had had several meetings with the council.

The Seri Serdang constituency, which includes parts of Puchong, is under the Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) while the Dengkil constituency, which includes the southern part of Puchong, is under the Sepang Municipal Council (MPSp).

Satim said more meetings would be held to decide on the division of maintenance and costs along the road to avoid confusion.

He said there were also problems with heavy vehicles driving against traffic to gain easy access to some of the project sites.

“We will issue a stern warning to the companies involved and ask them to post a ``flagman’’ to control traffic if they want to to use the shortcut,” he said.