LDA Retrieves 25 Plots in a Recent Operation against Land Grabbers.

LAHORE: A team of the Lahore Development Authority’s directorate of estate management-1 on Wednesday retrieved 25 residential plots worth millions from land grabbers in Johar Town and PIA housing society road. The 25 plots include two of five marlas and 23 of one Kanal.

According to a spokesman, the team retrieved 17 plots in Johar Town’s N block (near Samsani village) and eight on PIA road during an operation against illegal occupants. The team demolished structures, boundary walls, and shanties that had been illegally established there. These plots will now be included in the plot bank of LDA. “These properties will be sold through the open auction for revenue generation development projects,” the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, the staff of the LDA’s Town Planning Wing demolished two illegal structures during an operation in Avenue-I Housing Scheme on Wednesday. The operation was conducted against unauthorized commercial constructions which had been carried out in violation of the approved building plan on residential plots No 3 and 4 of B-block of the scheme.

According to building regulations, commercial construction on a residential plot is an illegal act. As per orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the decision of the governing body of LDA, temporary commercialization is not allowed in LDA Avenue-I Housing Scheme. Commercial construction could only be carried out on designated [commercial] plots.

On the other hand, LDA is set to hold on Thursday (today) a stakeholders’ conference for seeking suggestions, input, and objections regarding Land Use Regulations-2020.

“We need to simplify policies and laws for promoting business opportunities for the growth of economic activities. So we must encourage the construction sector so that the investors could take benefit of the prime minister’s package of incentives for this sector,” LDA DG Ahmad Aziz Tarar said while presiding over a meeting here on Wednesday.