Response to Developer's Remark (the Star)

The Star, Saturday 21 February 2009 Click on the image for a clearer view.

With reference to the article above, it is really true that Superview Sdn Bhd had no building projects for over 20 years. NOT FOR THE REASON they don’t want to. Their proposed project in between year 2002-2003 (I cannot remember at this moment on the year but I have newspaper cutting somewhere), to revive the abandoned houses on Wangsa 9 and also to rebuild new block of buildings right in front of Wangsa 9 were not approved. For your information, we were the ones protesting against the proposal. So can I say that if we hadn’t had protested, we would have seen some new developments happening on Wangsa 9?

Superview Sdn Bhd stated that they have been periodically maintaining the work on the land, I don’t think so at all. I think my fellow residents will agree with me. Then again, we would be interested to ask what maintenance work has been done. One very good example is, if you have a chance to walk Wangsa 9, you will see how overly-grown trees as high as 50 to 60 feet from the ground and higher than our houses. Each time when it’s going to rain, we can see from our houses the swaying of the trees fears us. I believe the “swaying” is vastly contributing to the fact of destabilizing the ground. Residents themselves will get someone to clean up their roofs at least once a year to avoid clogging by the leaves. We had a few occasions where these trees were uprooted and fell right in front of our properties. Missing a bit, it would have hit our existing homes. When that happened, Wangsa 9 would be cut off from electricity and would have to inform MPAJ to come and cut the trees. Come to think of it, these occasions had been quite good as not to damage cars parked along Wangsa 9. Two occasions which I remember vividly were on houses no. 37 and 39. Of course, we have no evidence going down the slope right in front of us to check on any clogged drains. Residents did bring up complaints about the trees before and after they fell but they have all fallen to deaf ears. At one point of time, the residents themselves took the initiative to collect some money to get a contractor to prune the trees. So how valid is it that Superview SB now claiming that they have been maintaining their land?


Lastly, just a recap for many who are not aware, I would like to highlight again the failed slope (6th Dec) where the cave in comes from Wangsa 9 was also the place where buildings erected by Superview way back in 1985 had collapsed before. As residents, we know that the collapsed buildings were nicely swept and cleaned up as well as some terracing work had been done to put things back, what we would really be interested to find out is, whether a proper remedial work to maintain the stability on the said failed slope was being done way back then. I suppose IKRAM and JKR reports will have full investigation of this failed development parallel to landslide on 6th December. If Superview SB has stated in the write up for their inability to comment on the causes of the landslide, I am recommending that this is one of the causes.

For your information, Superview SB is a subsidiary of MRCB. A separate section of my blog has a collection of newspaper clips and even brochure on Wangsa Ukay way back in 1984. Please refer to The Day Taman UKAY Was Born:1984 - History Archive that will link you to my other blog.

Regards,

YENHEE