News about mbpp

GEORGE TOWN (Jan 7): The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) announced that it “expects” to approve projects worth a total gross development value (GDV) of about RM2.

GEORGE TOWN (Aug 26): Certain construction projects in Penang island will be given 24-hour approval to start work, the Malay Mail reported today.

GEORGE TOWN (Aug 21): Penang Island City Council (MBPP) has demanded that owners of abandoned “heritage buildings” or pre-war houses “upkeep their premises” or action will be taken against them, The Star reported yesterday.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 20): “There is not now, nor has there ever been” a plan to build a multi-storey car park next to Fort Cornwallis (pictured) in Penang, according to Chief Minister of Penang Incorporated (CMI) in a statement today.

GEORGE TOWN (Jan 23): In its war against dirty eateries, Penang Island City Council (MBPP) has recently fined and shut down two hawker centres.

GEORGE TOWN (Jan 10): A famous nasi kandar shop along the heritage enclave in Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling was shut down by Penang Island City Council (MBPP) after rats and cockroach droppings were found in the premises, the Star reported yesterday.

  GEORGE TOWN (Nov 18): Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) have raised the alarm over massive earthworks and hill cutting on steep slopes at Mount Erskine.

GEORGE TOWN (Oct 11): An illegal quarry in Teluk Bahang is still mining thousands of tonnes of granite despite a stop-work order by the Penang Island City Council (MBPP), an online report by The Star said today.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 13): Penang property owners have to be prepared to pay higher assessment rates next year as the state’s two local councils review the rates to counter increased expenditures.

  GEORGE TOWN (June 28): The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) has issued a stop-work order on the owner of Lost Paradise Resort over a retaining wall collapse that took the lives of four workers this week, reported the Malay Mail today.