CDA board to oversee revised layout plan issuance.

ISLAMABAD -- The city managers have decided that the planning wing will not decide cases regarding the revised layout plan (LOP) for the housing schemes without the approval of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) board.

Sources in the planning wing of the CDA told Dawn that the chairman secretariat on Wednesday took notice of the approval of revised layout plans (LOPs) without the input of the CDA board. They said that through a letter, the member planning's office has been barred from approving the revised LOP without the approval of the board.

'It has been observed by the authority that revised layout plans of housing schemes/projects in Islamabad Capital Territory after issuances of No Objection Certificates are being approved without concurrence/approval of CDA board,' read the letter of the chairman secretariat.

It further said: 'In future, all approvals related to the revision of LOPs will be placed before the CDA board for approval. Necessary amendments in regulations, if required, may be incorporated,' the letter said.

Decision taken to discourage illegal housing schemes, improve planning wing

Sources in CDA said that this decision was made to bring improvement in the working of the planning wing.

It is relevant to note here, there are over 100 housing schemes in Islamabad and a large number of them are unauthorised and illegal.

In many cases, their operators got the approval of LOPs from the CDA and sold out plots without getting NOC for the said purpose. This practice has affected the buyers of these plots since these societies subsequently could not get NOCs.

Similarly, sources said that in many cases, the operators of housing schemes got the approval for LOPs to give legal cover to their schemes and later they violated the...

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