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Written by Metro - Central
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006 |
WALK up 28 floors or take the lifts that stop or plunge for some heart-stopping moments.
Every day, occupants of Bukit Pandan II Condominiums in Cheras face the dilemma of risking their lives or exhausting their stamina.
The nine elevators in the three blocks of condominium are in a questionable condition but have not been fixed despite countless complaints made to the developer.
“We have had six meetings with the former and current deputy housing
ministers,” lamented president of Bukit Pandan II Condominium
Residents/Owners Association, Liew See Lan.
“Imagine what we have to go through every day. Business operators and
old folks sending their grandchildren off to school have to climb up
and down the stairs several times. ''
“What about the ill and the pregnant?” she asked, adding that the lifts
have not been granted Certificates of Fitness and that three were
always shut.
According to the residents, this is only one of the many problems they
are putting up with since they moved into the condo in 2000.
They have brought up their plight to the management office, developer,
local authority and even the Local Government and Housing Ministry, but
the problems are still unresolved.
Desperate and frustrated, the residents went in two coaches to send a
memorandum detailing their predicament to the Prime Minister at his
office in Putrajaya recently.
Having bought the units at between RM130,000 and RM380,000, the
residents are living in an environment that contrasts starkly to what
they saw in the advisements at point of purchase.
The facilities, that lured them into buying the units, are now in
deplorable states. Squash, tennis and badminton courts are run down,
gymnasium, sauna, public toilet, children's playground and swimming
pool are sorry sights.
Water seepage, an obvious sign of construction defect, can be spotted easily on the outer walls and inside the houses.
They said security was not tight and that numerous car thefts had happened in the compound.
Liew said the residents had checked with the Land Office and found out
that Strata Titles were issued in 2004 but they have yet to receive
them.
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