Tag: Plaza

LDA dispels reports about stay order against Liberty Plaza

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Sunday dispelled reports about stay order against the construction of Liberty Park and Ride Plaza. LDA Legal Advisor Waqar A Sheikh said that no stay order has been granted by any court against construction of the plaza.
He said that all arrangements have been finalised and auction of shops will be held on Wednesday, April 6, according to the revised schedule in wake of public interest in the cricket World Cup matches. Sheikh

LHC seeks reply from LDA on liberty plaza

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

LHC asked to stop auction at Park and Ride Plaza

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court has been moved through an application to stay the auction of shops and a restaurant at the first floor of Park and Ride Plaza, (Liberty Parking Plaza) at Liberty Market.
The plea was moved by Mohammad, Ahmed and other shop owners in an already pending petition against the construction of the said plaza, which the petitioners claim, has been built on the land which originally was allocated for the development of a park.
The application under CPC

Liberty Plaza case – LHC issues pre-admission notice

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday issued pre-admission notices to the Punjab government and other respondents on a petition challenging the establishment of Liberty Park and Ride Shopping Plaza. Judge directed the respondents to file the replies till February 17.
The petition is moved by seven petitioners including Muhammad Azhar Sidduque, chairman of a law firm, Mohammad Saleem Hafeez, Mian Mohammad Haroon of Hotel MelRose Inn, Arshad Kareem

13 out of 31 shops at Park N Ride Plaza auctioned

LAHORE - On the directives of the Punjab chief minister, as many as 13 out of the 31 shops situated at the ground floor of newly constructed Park N Ride Plaza at Liberty Market were sold through open auction by the Lahore Development Authority on Wednesday.
The reserve price for these shops had been set as Rs. 185,3 00,000 where as these were sold at Rs. 211,450,000. A total of 62 bidders who had deposited pay orders worth one million each for participating in the bid took part

Petition filed against Park and Ride Plaza

LAHORE - A constitutional petition has been filed before the Lahore High Court to question the construction of Liberty Park and Ride Plaza, on the premise that the land was originally owned by Parks and Horticulture of Authority (PHA) for the development of a public park, which could not be handed over to the Lahore Development of Authority (LDA) for the purpose of the said plaza.
The petition has been filed by the Linen Shop and five other owners of shops/establishments/offices

Serving itself – Govt rolls back plaza demolition plan

LAHORE - Mocking its own slogan of good governance, merit and rule of law, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led Punjab government has scrapped its mega operation against high-rise buildings to save the skin of its leaders including Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, who are allegedly involved in a number of building violations, Pakistan Today has learnt. The decision is a sheer violation of the Supreme Court commission's report, which recommended partial and complete

Park & Ride Plaza inaugurated amidst controversy

LAHORE: In the shadow of controversies, 11-flour Park & Ride Plaza was opened at Main Boulevard, Gulberg near Liberty roundabout adjacent to United Christian Hospital on Wednesday.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the plaza with publicity blitz but failed to fulfill his commitment to construct other parking plazas at 9 places including Nila Gumbad, Sheranwala, Shadman, Moon Market and Macleod Road. First controversy started when Park & Ride Plaza was preferred to

Israel to invest 23 million dollars in Western Wall plaza

JERUSALEM: Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved plans to invest millions of shekels in a five-year project to expand the plaza next to the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites in Jerusalem's Old City.
The plans to improve access to the site were outlined in a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which said it would invest 85 million shekels (23 million dollars, 17 million euros) in the project.
"The aim of the plan is to improve

Liberty parking plaza opening on 30th

LAHORE: As part of the Lahore Development Authority's (LDA) Urban Planning Vision 2015 initiative, the first-of-its-kind nine-storey parking facility, the "Park and Ride Plaza", located at the Liberty Roundabout adjacent to the United Christian Hospital, is all set to be opened to the public on November 30, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The plaza was likely to be opened in October, but due to a delay in the delivery of material required for the building's exterior, the Traffic and

J-Block park won’t be turned into commercial plaza for now

LAHORE: Succumbing to stiff public pressure, the Model Town Society (MTS) has shelved its controversial plan to convert the J-Block park into a commercial plaza and constituted a eight-member committee to decide the park's fate measuring 55 kanals located at the right side of the Model Town Morr's entrance, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The decision was taken place during the society's annual general meeting held at the MTS Head Office on Sunday after some society members blasted