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LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority's Town Planning Wing demolished on Saturday as many as nine buildings being illegally constructed in PIA Housing Scheme and sealed another four on the main boulevard of the same scheme. Four buildings were being constructed as commercial structures in violation of the residential plans approved for plots 9-G, 16-F, 410-E and 40-B/1. Similarly no building plan had been got approved for under-construction buildings on plots 97-G, 422-E, 249-C

LAHORE - LDA has rescheduled the auction of as many as 26 shops at the lower ground floor, besides the space for a restaurant at the first floor of the Park and Ride Plaza on Gulberg`s Main Boulevard.
The LDA had planned to sell the shops through an open auction on March 31, but later deferred it to April 6 due to reason best known to LDA officials. Some 13 ground-floor shops of the plaza have already been sold for Rs211.45 million against the reserve price of Rs185.3 million in

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Monday directed the Lahore Development Authroity (LDA) to file a reply by April 15, on an application requesting to stay the auction of 26 shops and restaurant at the first floor of Liberty Park and Ride Plaza. The application was filed by owners of shops near the plaza. They are Mohammad Saleem Hafeez, Mian Mohammad Haroon of Hotel MelRose Inn, Arshad Kareem Qureshi of Toy Land, M Zakariya Basheer Malik and Arif Mehmood of

LAHORE - Bhogiwal Road, an important artery of Northern Lahore falling in the NA-123 constituency, a citadel of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has been under construction for the last two years making residents' life miserable. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of the road on September 9, 2008, but failed to follow up on its pace of construction. The 3.4-km-long Bhogiwal Road, located in Baghbanpura near Shalamar Garden, a main approach-road linking

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Saturday sent on forced retirement three sub engineers and building inspectors for involvement in the construction of illegal high-rise buildings in the city while departmental proceedings against another official were dropped due to his death.
The officials sent on retirement are Riaz Akhtar Khokhar, Aamir Rashid and Pervaiz Khurshid Shah while Muhammad Farooq has died. The High Rise Commission, constituted under the directions

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is unlikely to decide the fate of plots of its employees on its own terms, discarding LDA staffers' demands. All was set to dole out the plots through balloting on Thursday (today) but the court issued restraining orders on Wednesday. An LDA employee, Muhammad Khalid, petitioned in the civil court, saying that LDA should be stopped holding balloting for employees' plots on March 10 as he apprehended that balloting will not do the justice

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) seems least bothered about the Supreme Court's (SC) orders to take action against 23 undeveloped housing societies, which were approved before 2005, Pakistan Today has learnt. The above-mentioned housing societies are the Gulshan-e-Ahbab Phase-II Housing Society, Aitchison College Staff Housing Society, Akhtar Housing Society, Gulshan-e-Jinnah Housing Society, Gulshan-e-Shalimar Housing Society, Gulshan-e-Awan Housing Society, Ittefaq

LAHORE - Lahore High Court gave a last chance on Wednesday to Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on behalf of the Punjab government on a petition challenging the proposed conversion of recreational park at the Lahore Press Club Journalist Housing Scheme Lahore into a residential area by carving out plots for 295 newly-inducted members of the club.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the LHC adjourned the hearing till March 22 and ordered the LDA to produce all relevant records of the

LAHORE - Everything seems in place for protecting Lahore Development Authority (LDA) officials involved in a mega forgery scam regarding stamp papers in the LDA Avenue-I Housing Scheme, Pakistan Today has learnt. The scam surfaced when Ishtiaq Chaudhry was serving as estate management director on deputation in LDA from 2009 to 2010. A LDA official told Pakistan Today that a number of property dealers, in connivance with LDA officials, issued fake stamp papers worth Rs 20,000 and

LAHORE - Being scared of any disclosure after CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif warning, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Saturday held an in-camera governing body meeting at a committee room of its head office in Johar Town.
Sources revealed that the meeting mulled over a number of decisions taken by former LDA DG Umer Rasool including 100 percent waiver for the second time in building period to Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust flouting its own decision issued in 2001 and mocking

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has turned down a well-planned move of a 50 percent hike in transfer fee of plots in its own housing schemes and decided to uphold the present ratio for all allotted, auction and exemption plots, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The proposal to increase the levy on transfer of plots of 3 marlas, 5 marlas, 7 marlas, 250-square metres and more than 250-square metres was floated by highly-ranked officials working on probation and having close

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has submitted a summary to Chief Minister's Secretariat for the regularisation of the services of LDA Project Director (IT) Mansoor Butt working on contractual basis in grade BS-18, mocking the regularisation policy for contractual employees, LDA sources told Pakistan Today.
RULES: Sources in LDA said, according to rules, the government could regularise provincial staff from grade 1 to 16 and above. Employees appointed through

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has approved independent building regulations for katchi abadies, project of improvement and rehabilitation work of Ferozepur Road and installation of warning signs displaying height restriction messages at underpasses at Canal Bank Road from Dharampura underpass to Tokhar Niaz Baig.
This decision was taken during a meeting of the LDA governing body, chaired by District Coordination Officer and LDA Chairman Ahad Khan Cheema. The

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Monday appointed the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Director General (DG) Abdul Jabbar Shaheen of the District Management Group (DMG) serving in BPS-19 as director general of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA).
According to notification issued, with additional charge of LDA DG, Shaheen would continue to perform his duties as PHA DG. On Monday, Shaheen assumed his new office. Former LDA DG Omer Rasul of DMG serving in BPS-20 has been

LAHORE - Lahore Development Authority (LDA) acting Director General Muhammad Ihsan Ul Haq has ordered transfers and postings of four directors. C&I Director Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Chaudhry has been transferred and posted as LDA Chairman's Headquarters Director, relieving LDA PSO to Chairman Jamshaid Siddiqui from the additional charge of the said post.
Estate Management Director Chaudhry Ishtiaq Ahmad has been posted as LDA C&I Director. LDA Katchi Abadis Director Muhammad

LAHORE - The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) and the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) have stopped action against removal of more than 50 unauthorised road cuts traced out on various roads, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Both departments had planned to close all illegal road cuts considered as big hurdles in smooth flow of traffic after Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered in July 2010 that no road cuts would be allowed after completion of new roads and departments

LAHORE - Amid deep controversies, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has finalised arrangements to shift the Fruit and Vegetable Market, Kot Lakhpat, Model Town Extension Scheme, Ferozepure Road, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to sources, Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahad Cheema was architect of the proposed shifting, as he wants to please some of his friends. "Some close friends of the DCO, big shareholders in IT Tower located near the market complained