LDA Approves to build 35,000 Residential Units
Lahore Development Authority has decided to seek approval for the construction of 35000 residential units under the name of LDA City Naya Pakistan Apartments. A revised PC-1 of Rs 47 billion will also be sent for formal approval for the development of infrastructure. This was decided in a meeting of the Development Working Party of LDA which was attended by Engineer Amir Riaz Qureshi, member governing body of LDA, Chief Engineer Habibul Haq Randhawa, and other officers.
Officials said completion certificates have also been issued to 59 new buildings during this period. They added a total of 1,133 applications had been submitted at One Window Cell of LDA for seeking approval of buildings plans for the construction of new buildings of different nature in various localities of the city out of which 576 had been approved while 349 were in the process and only 207 had been returned to the applicants for lacking necessary documents.For encouraging construction activity and reducing visits of the applicants to the LDA office, the meeting decided to accord provisional approval of building plans of residential buildings, up to three floors without pillars, at the time of submission of building plans. This decision will remain in practice for six months.