Nod for panel to negotiate with builder

The Star Penang 11/09/2000

The Menara Kuda Lari Housebuyers committee has been given the mandate by frustrated purchasers to negotiate with the developer to help revive the project which has been stalled for more than three years.

Its secretary, Lim Beng Poh, said the committee had last Monday forwarded a proposal to the developer Ever Noble Sdn Bhd to look into appointing a receiver to complete the 80%-completed project.

"Our legal adviser told us that it would take us three months as the receiver would be appointed by the court,'' he told reporters after meeting the housebuyers at Wisma Pengakap in Scotland Road here.

"We signed the sales and purchase agreement in 1994 and the project was supposed to be completed within three years,'' he said.

At the meeting, 80 of the 195 purchasers present gave a full mandate to the committee to negotiate with the developer.

Lim said the RM5mil project in Jalan Lahad comprised three 12-storey blocks and two five-storey blocks, adding there were a total of 219 units.

Lim said the developer had taken the first contractor to court regarding the removal of a tower crane, adding that the case had dragged on for two years.

"We want a peaceful negotiation with the developer as we want to resolve this problem as soon as possible.''

"Some of the purchasers have already retired and have to depend on their children to pay the instalments,'' he said.

Purchasers can call U.G. Jayantha at (Tel: 04-2636729) or committee members Cheok Kar Gee at (Tel: 012-4732418), Pang Sing Hooi (Tel: 017-4735381) or Lim at (Tel: 019-4132318) for details.