Property Hunter Magazine Issue 91 - August 2017 | Page 70

PROPERTY NEWS PROPERTY NEWS  by Daily Express TAED to be declared unlawful? Innocent until proven guilty. “Under the new guideline which requires the development plan and the PEP to be sent simultaneously, the duration of the approval is expected to be halved,” Some 7 members of Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (Star) filed for leave for a judicial review seeking a declaration that the Tanjung Aru Eco Development (TAED) project is ultra vires and unlawful under Section 9A and Schedule II of the Land Ordinance Cap 30. The 7 applicants named Kota Kinabalu Mayor, Sabah State Government and Director of Lands and Surveys Department as the first, second and third respondent In a statement, the applicants claimed the Skyscraper City TAED project was in breach of Section 9A and File photo of TAED Masterplan schedule II of the Sabah Land Ordinance Cap 30 as the word ‘alienate’ as defined under is undertaken to fundamentally change the The applicants are also seeking an the Ordinance means to lease or otherwise beach from what it is now with something order of mandamus to the second and dispose of State land on behalf of the totally different. The beach as it now has third respondents to compel the first government in consideration of the payment generally been preserved for generations respondent and their agents or servants of such rent and of such premium, if any as in its original state but the beach that it will to stop, discontinue and or abandon the may be required. become after the TAED project is completed implementation of the Tanjung Aru Eco will be totally different. Development Master Plan whether by itself or its servants or agents and to restore the “The undertaking of the TAED project would not be possible without land being alienated They are seeking an order of certiorari against Tanjung Aru Beach to its original state and by the second respondent or the third the respondents to set aside the master condition before the implementation of the respondent and the relevant government plan on the ground that the Tanjung Aru Eco Tanjung Aru Eco Development Master plan agencies. Development Master Plan is ultra vires and or any part thereof.workshop on the 1 State unlawful under Section 9A and Schedule II of 1DCP Champion here on May 12 for the the Land Ordinance Cap 30. relevant stakeholders. They argued that the TAED project was and 70 www.PropertyHunter.com.my