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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on November 17, 2015.

 

KUALA LUMPUR: City Hall has given Selangor Dredging Bhd (SDB) the green light to develop the hillslope in Medan Damansara.

SDB communications and corporate affairs head Lina Othman said SDB received approval from City Hall on Sept 3 last year.

“We have been given the Development Order and Earthwork approval. However, we will not be developing the site in the immediate future due to the current challenging economic situation,” she said, adding that SDB intends to build 16 bungalows on the Damansara 16 project site.

“We will continue to carry out maintenance such as grass cutting, plant trimming and overseeing the site. Fogging is also carried out on a monthly basis,” she said.

Medan Damansara Residents’ Association president Peter Raiappan said he was shocked to find out that City Hall had approved the project.

“All this while, we thought that the project was put on hold. We are taken aback by the decision,” he said. Raiappan said the council should have consulted the residents living closest to the hillslope before approving the project.

City Hall executive director Datuk Tan Keng Chok said the project had been abandoned but was in the process of being revived.  “Work has not commenced on the site yet,” he said.

Residents claimed that last Wednesday evening there was an overflow of water from the hillslope into a house in Jalan Setiapuspa 3, causing the compound to flood. They claim that the water had come from above zinc hoarding on the hillslope next to their homes.

Resident Dzullikram Zollbahrin, 28, said that the incident occurred after a heavy downpour at 5pm. “It was like a waterfall gushing over the hoarding into the house and flooding the kitchen. The water rose to 50cm high, but we were thankful that no one was hurt,” he said.

Raiappan, who lives a few doors away from the hillslope, said that chances of a landslip occurring were ever present.  — The Malaysian Insider

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