Don't delay issuing
strata title, City Hall urged
19/04/1999 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun - City Hall should speed up issuing strata
titles for high-rise apartments to enable unit owners to look after their own
property. It's advisory council member Ng Lip Yoong said the delay in processing
individual strata titles has posed problems to owners of City Hall's privatised
projects here.
"The slow issuance of strata titles has placed many owners of such apartments
in the Klang Valley in a predicament." There are about 12,000 flats and apartments
sold under City Hall's projects with private developers. Ng said if no extensions
have been made to the apartments, the owners could re-submit applications to
City Hall's Housing and Management Department for their respective titles.
"I will raise the matter at our weekly advisory council meetings to seek a quick
resolution. A report will also be submitted to the Land and Co-operatives Development
Ministry for further action," he said when opening the third annual general
meeting of the Sentul Utara Resident's Association here today.
Also present was association chairman Noor Effendy Mohamed, vice-chairman Tahir
Mahabot, secretary Pauzi Majid and City Hall's Housing and Management Department
officer Ayub Hussein. Earlier, Noor Effendy said despite the residents having
purchased the apartments in 1995, none of them had been successful in their
applications for strata titles.
The majority of residents want their own strata titles so that the residents'.
The developer said we had to wait for the approval of the other blocks in the
area. How long this will take is unclear.
What is clear is that without the issuance of the titles, the residents will
have no peace of mind over the ownership of their units.
Worse, they will be at the mercy of unscrupulous management.
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