Sri Petaling apartment project to undergo DBKL review

KUALA LUMPUR (July 30): Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will review a proposed development in Sri Petaling, after residents expressed worries over conserving the green lung in the area.

Residents in Taman Sri Endah were especially vocal in their resistance to the three-block, 704 serviced apartments to be built on the 1.18ha land.

The development comprises two 46-storey blocks and a 59-storey block of apartments.

In a hearing between residents and DBKL on June 27, no definite outcome on the project’s fate was decided. The decision is pending.

Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, also Primary Industries Minister, attended the hearing.

According to the Star, a DBKL spokesman said residents’ objections would be tabled during an upcoming One-Stop Centre meeting.

“We have not approved the project.

“Residents will be informed of the outcome of the meeting as to whether the project gets approved or not,” he said.

Sri Petaling Residents’ Association (RA) chairman Tan Tai Tong told the Star that the site had been earmarked as a green lung in the Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020, but the plan was not gazetted. 

“The residents want the area to remain as a green lung in Taman Sri Endah.

“We hope that it can be turned into a park for residents’ benefit,” he said to the daily.

Tan said that early last year, he found out that the Federal Territories Land Office land had been sold to a private developer.

“A notice on the project was erected in February but residents from Endah Ria, Endah Regal, Endah Promenade and Endah Puri condominium have objected to it.

“We also protested the proposed development at DBKL on June 17,” he said. DBKL has yet to give the residents an answer, he said. 

Endah Puri Management Corporation chairman Henry Delions said: “We were told that there will a park when we moved in but until now, nothing has materialised.

“All we ask is to have our green space back for the enjoyment of our senior citizens and children who will have a recreational area to go to.”

“If the development is approved, there will be more traffic congestion. As it is, cars already double-park outside Endah Puri and I expect vehicles to triple-park if the project is approved.”