Tanjung Bunga residents have been urging the MPPP to closely monitor what is going on in the Surin property development project on the steep hill-slopes facing Chee Seng Gardens.
Photos by Tanjung Bunga residents – Click icon on bottom right to expand to full-screen slideshow
After much effort by the residents in highlighting the issue of uncovered hill-slopes, the MPPP has taken some action and the contractor has now partially covered the slopes, more so on the higher slopes. But many patches remain uncovered.
The residents have also complained that work is being carried out at night, sometimes past 8.00pm. They want the Council to confirm if the developer is allowed to carry on work beyond 6.00pm.
The residents are also upset about a host of other project-related issues:
- floods
- blasting outside permitted times
- blasting within five seconds of sounding the siren
- flying rocks
- failure to stop passing vehicles when the blasting siren goes off
- absence of police, geotech and MPPP officials during blasting
- extraction of rocks and earth without monitoring the lorries leaving the premises
- incessant noise and nauseating diesel fumes
- unmaintained retention ponds which may cause malaria
- improperly maintained drains
- overflowing retention ponds and mud and soil erosion into the sea whenever it rains
They are thus asking the Council to ensure that the developer follows all requirements to the letter.
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The likes of Andrew and TBRA should have the decency to seek an accountability from KTK given that you lot had repeated voted him in as your assemblyman in pre March 2008 and by extension Penang’s CM.
He is after all, still an active politician aspiring to recapture Penang.
Don’t expect the rest of Penangites to cough up the dole when the developers sue should LGE revokes their projects which were approved by KTK.
In Malaysia we see black and white colour only? So many project build on the high hill slope in the world. The biggest and tallest Jesus statue in Rio De Janeiro is on the hill slope.
So, enforcement in the past is always talking about “favours”. But PR government is not giving any “favour” as what my friend told me.
It is time to improve enforecement by “stringent engineering” practice. CAT is not against development, but with sound engineering practises applied in Building Industry.