- Civic agency may ‘regularise’ all shops, apartment complexes, workshops, showrooms in E-11
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority has once again backtracked from its decision to take strict action against the illegally-constructed high rise apartment complexes.
Taking an absolute U-turn, the civic agency is now ruminating to ‘regularise’ all the illegally-constructed shops, apartment complexes, workshops, showrooms in sector E-11, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
Despite the rampant commercialisation along service roads and within residential areas, the civic agency turned a blind eye since long. FECHS, National Police Foundation, MPCHS and Al-Meher Colony along with Golra Sharif have not only encroached upon amenity plots but have also initiated illegal construction without prior approval of designs and maps by CDA.
According to officials in the Directorate of Planning, the big wigs who’ve invested billions of rupees in constriction in the high-rise buildings are hell bent to get their way after paying nominal fines and getting their buildings regularised.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Building Control Section Director Shafi Marwat said that CDA has issued multiple notices to owners and builders to halt their illegal constructions. However, “due to the multiple pending cases before subordinate and superior judiciary, our hands are tied. Once, the litigation is out, we’ll get our operation in full swing,” he said. On October 20, 2017, CDA had issued violation notices to owners of the 84 building.
