Selangor has assisted affected developers on a case-by-case basis. — Filepic
Errant developers’ details given to local councils, says exco man
SELANGOR has 176 abandoned housing projects involving 35,995 houses.
The Klang district has 52 abandoned housing projects, with the majority (43 projects) under the jurisdiction of Klang Municipal Council (MPK).
Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) has the most number of abandoned units totalling 6,319.
State housing and culture committee chairman Borhan Aman Shah said Selangor government had distributed to the local authorities information on the developers responsible for the abandoned projects, for their perusal and to take the necessary action.
Based on the requirement by Selangor Housing and Property Board (LPHS) through the Developer Registration System, he said that development should start 30 days upon receiving the planning approval by the local authorities.
“If the developer is blacklisted and makes a new application for another development with the same person’s name, even as a shareholder of the project, it will not be accepted,” he said.
He was replying to Datuk Seri Jamil Salleh (PN-Dengkil) who asked during the Q&A session about the statistics concerning abandoned housing projects and the state government’s action so far.
Borhan said the state would always request for the concerned developer to state the reason behind the project not taking off, and offer assistance to ensure the project is completed.
“During the Covid-19 movement control order, some projects were affected due to staffing issues and financial constraints.
“There was a case whereby the developer could continue with the project but did not have enough funds for the high utility guarantee fee,” he said.
He added that the state helped the affected developers on a case-by-case basis, depending on their problems, to ensure the projects were completed.
Borhan also said that RM3.1mil had been disbursed to local councils in Selangor to undertake maintenance and repair works at run-down strata schemes this year.
He said the fund was allocated under “Skim Ceria” and included 18 projects.
“The works include repairs to roofs, lifts and water tanks, upgrades of rubbish houses and repainting of buildings.”
He was responding to Danial Al-Rashid Haron Aminar Rashid (PH-Batu Tiga) who asked about the programmes carried out under the scheme.
Danial Al-Rashid also asked if there were differences in the levels of services by local authorities at strata schemes in the state.
Borhan replied that unit owners at low-cost schemes enjoyed an exemption from assessment tax and rubbish collection fee.
“They also enjoy cleaning services by the local councils. But the provision of other services is under the management body’s purview,” he added.
To Danial Al-Rashid’s supplementary question on plans by the state government to increase allocation disbursed under “Skim Ceria”, Borhan said the state planned to work with the Federal Government to obtain more funds to undertake costly repair and maintenance works.
Such works, he said, involved repairs of crucial assets like water tanks and lifts at strata properties.
“For ‘Skim Ceria’, we aim to focus more on low-cost initiatives like repainting of the buildings,” he added.
In a StarMetro report on Sept 8, Borhan said the state had spent RM123.7mil since 2011 to spruce up run-down strata schemes.
He also said RM25,000 was allocated annually via LPHS for each local council to carry out strata management courses.
Separately, Dr Afif Bahardin (PN-Taman Medan) asked if there were plans to help unit owners in Selangor who had yet to obtain their strata title.
Borhan said LPHS could act as the facilitator to assist such owners.
He said some developers failed to comply with the regulations set by the local authorities, which complicated the issuance of strata titles.
