Puchong Hartamas folks claim poor maintenance and shoddy work

03/05/2008 The Star By Tho Xin Yi

The residents of Taman Puchong Hartamas and Pangsapuri Pulai are blaming the developer for some of the issues affecting their housing areas.

Puchong Hartamas Residents Association president Charles van der Slott said earlier in the advertisement it was promised that the inner roads of the housing area would be 50ft wide.

”However, the roads built were definitely less than that,” he said, adding even their request for a higher perimeter fencing in Jalan PH2/5 to prevent burglary was not met.

“The guardhouse at the entrance of our housing area obstructs drivers' views as we can't see oncoming cars and I believe the structure was not approved by the Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ),” he claimed.

Abandoned: The structure that was meant to be a kindergarten at Pangsapuri Pulai.

Adding to the list, Charles claimed that a Hindu temple in the area was pending relocation since the developer had yet to compensate the temple management.

And the road linking Puchong Hartamas and Bandar Puteri Puchong as promised by the developer is nowhere in sight, according to Charles.

Meanwhile, the residents of Pangsapuri Pulai in Puchong Hartamas have a bone to pick with the developers, too.

Lack of maintenance at the children's kindergarten, missing fire extinguishers, an abandoned structure meant to be a kindergarten and absence of grilles on their windows are some of their complaints.

When asked to comment on the residents' complaints, MPSJ president Datuk Adnan Md Ikhsan said the residents should check the S&P agreement on the specifications.

“And if the temple matter is true, then we will urge the developer to compensate them,” said Adnan.

A spokesman for the developer said the allegations made by Charles were baseless.

Obstructing view: Some of the Puchong Hartamas residents are not pleased with the location of the guardhouse.

”We got our Certificate of Fitness (CF) in 2004 and it shows we have complied with the necessary rules.

“The guardhouse was approved much earlier by MPSJ in 2003 and the guidelines for Gated and Guarded Community development was only issued earlier this year,” she said.

She added that they were in the process of handing over the guardhouse to the local authority.

“As for the road, it's an agreement between MPSJ and us that we will finance part of the cost, and the money was paid last June. And we have already compensated the temple folks,” she said.

As for Pangsapuri Pulai, the spokesman said the developer had been working closely with the residents' association all this while and they had not encountered many issues.