The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has raised concerns about the Jinnah Garden Housing Scheme’s failure to transfer land designated for public amenities, a key requirement outlined in its approved layout plan.
Located in Zone IV of Islamabad, the cooperative housing society is currently entangled in legal proceedings at the Islamabad High Court. The CDA recently submitted a comprehensive report to the court, highlighting multiple breaches of the layout plan, which will be reviewed in the next hearing.
Violations in Phase I Extension
According to the report, the Phase I extension of Jinnah Garden, covering 1,826 kanals, received CDA approval in 2021 under specific terms and conditions. However, the society’s operators have yet to transfer land allocated for parks, playgrounds, open spaces, graveyards, and roadways to the civic body.
The CDA pointed out that the operators were required to fulfill this obligation within 45 days of approval. Additionally, they were supposed to mortgage 20% of the saleable land with the CDA as a financial guarantee for completing development work, but this condition also remains unmet.
Further deficiencies noted in the report include the absence of a sewage treatment plant and a proper solid waste management system.
Irregularities in Phase II
The layout plan for Phase II, spanning 1,066 kanals across Mouza Jabbi Gakhran, Chak Kamdar, Nara Syedan, and Kahuta Road, was approved by the CDA in October 2023 under certain conditions. However, the land designated for public parks and playgrounds has not been transferred, and the 20% mortgaging requirement remains incomplete.
Additionally, the CDA claims that critical documents, including the environmental report and waste management plan, have not been submitted by the housing society.
Unauthorized Development & Land Discrepancies
In December 2023, the CDA received a request for approval of a revised and extended combined layout plan covering 6,757 kanals for both Phase I and its extension. However, the housing society failed to provide the necessary supporting documents.
A CDA site visit on January 16, 2024, revealed unauthorized development in Blocks E and G, along with the illegal construction of a marquee in Block F. The authority has now ordered an immediate halt to all unauthorized development and instructed the operators to dismantle structures violating the approved plan.
Moreover, a complaint was lodged stating that 204 kanals of land originally reserved for parks, playgrounds, and a hospital had been exchanged with the Naval Anchorage Housing Scheme. The CDA has directed the scheme’s operators to submit a detailed report explaining the removal of these reserved plots.
With multiple violations and legal battles underway, the fate of the Jinnah Garden Housing Scheme remains uncertain as the CDA tightens its grip on regulatory compliance.
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CDA awakes after the time passes away. Real Movers and shakers eat the cream and run away. CDA issued NOC to one society AlHamra evenue on lehtrar Road in 2007,8. But original investors sold out the scheme to new owner of Edenlife who halted the project endlessly, since then and nobody knows the fate of project, while CDA is sleeping and small buyers of plots are suffering continously.
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What about Ministry of Commerce cooperative housing society.The NAB,RDA,FIA,CDA and the government is sleeping to fix the issue..Will some one resolve the decade old pending issue
Opt the strict way to handle these grabbers, others wise these mafia convert this society like PWD
Jinnah Gardens ph-1 is located in Zone V not in Zone IV.
I like it app,good to know what happened in the city
Why should CDA point out discrepancies and violations by a particular housing society when it is shy of taking any action against glaring violations already pointed out and highlighted on different forums by another housing society in Islamabad, namely the National Police Foundation,headed by a serving Inspector General of Police, right under the nose of the ministry of Interior. There are glaring violations where areas designated for public amenities and parks has been arbitrarily granted to favourites,in connivance with higher headquarters,so much so that a former Inspector General,a former Major,has blocked a public street No.3 and constructed bathrooms and servant quarters on the street probably because he had been a former Interim Home Minister. The management of Police Foundation has advertently turned a blind eye to this illegal denial of the right of way to the residents by this former official and their colleague.
To be an impartial public body,the CDA MUST enforce and implement strict rules across the board.Double standard for whatever reasons will only harm the integrity, impartiality and credibility of the Authority.