BANGSAR
BRDB returns to the neighbourhood it calls home with a luxurious condominium development in Jalan Medang Serai, Bukit Bandaraya. The development is divided into 8 blocks, 6 of which are low rise while 2 are high rise with a total of 212 units. All units will have open private lobbies with outstanding views of KL city and the surrounding Damansara vicinity. These luxury condominiums are expected to launch in 2008.

dis thread shud be send to Pangsapuri - Highrise Living in Malaysia

anyone can help me?

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the red one is the land for this project

purple is Jln Medang Serai

Blue is Jln Medang Tanduk

Green is Jln Damansara

by didgeridoo

Objections to KL Draft Plan 2020:
'Keep it green and cut the development'
K. Harinderan



More objections to the Kuala Lumpur Draft Plan 2020 are being raised as residents, from Bangsar to Gombak, fight to keep their green areas and open spaces.

KUALA LUMPUR: With green areas in Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar, fast disappearing, City Hall has been urged to put a stop to indiscriminate development.

"City Hall must restore and safeguard the green areas in Bukit Bandaraya as they must be retained as a public facility," said Bukit Bandaraya Residents' Association deputy president Mumtaz Ali.

He was speaking at the public hearing where residents voiced their objections to the Kuala Lumpur Draft Plan 2020. More than 430 residents submitted Public Opinion Forms to register their objections to the draft.


In the residents' objections submitted to City Hall, they stated that the Bukit Bandaraya area was a matured residential area with low-rise buildings and should not be overdeveloped.

The residents said that high-rise buildings and overdevelopment would result in congestion and have an adverse impact on the environment and existing facilities.

"Existing green lungs and open spaces must be retained and efforts must be made to provide more of such areas," Mumtaz said.

He added that the population density in Bukit Bandaraya should also be maintained as the area was an established residential community.

Mumtaz also raised the residents' objection to a proposed high-rise luxury condominium in Jalan Medang Serai.

He said there was a need for a review of the project and any development in the area should be in line with the original master development plan.

It has been reported that the proposed project was located on a plot of land facing a row of low-rise townhouses close to the Tivoli Villa apartments.

The project will comprise eight condo blocks, the tallest of which are two 28-storey blocks.

Residents have expressed fears that, among others, the project would result in congestion in the area as the population density would go up by 500 per cent, from 30 people per acre to 175 people per acre.

Mumtaz added that the Bukit Bandaraya area would become a slum if houses continued to be allowed to be converted into commercial outlets.

The KL Draft Plan showed that certain areas would be turned into both residential and commercial areas but the residents are against this as they want the areas to remain solely residential.

Mumtaz said the KL Draft Plan was not in compliance with the National Physical Plan in terms of density ratio and other issues.

"Authorities must have the interests of the people at heart as the rakyat are the stakeholders and anything planned must be of benefit to the rakyat. Communities should not be turned into slums."

The association's president Tunku Zahiah Tunku Sulong said the residents were also against the building of a mass rapid transport system like the LRT or monorail through the residential area as drafted in the plan.

"The area will become unsightly with the many concrete structures, not to mention the additional noise pollution from the trains," said Tunku Zahiah

proposed condominium would comprise 8 blocks of luxury apartments totaling 212 units. The blocks will be 6, 11 and 28 storeys high and will have 3 and 5-storey multi-level carparks for the apartments’ residents.

Streets mail: A park instead of another condo in Bangsar, please
2009/04/15
HARRY D, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur

WITH reference to the reports on the proposed building of a luxury condominium in Jalan Medang Serai, Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar, which was highlighted in your newspaper, I had suggested some time ago that the government buy the the land off the developer.

The government should then develop the land into a public park instead of approving the project which will only add to the congestion in the area.

The government is handing out billions to stimulate the economy and City Hall is always going on about turning Kuala Lumpur into a world-class city by 2020. They should put their "money where their mouth is."

This park could be a mini version of New York's Central Park, with the accent on preserving as much as possible the local flora and fauna. In the long term, it will provide employment for City Hall staff. Assuming of course that it does not become a grandiose "white elephant" due to lack of maintenance.


Can this request be explored, considering that KL is now heavily overpopulated and this will help to reverse the trend?