BANDAR Tun Razak residents allege that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) abused its power when it granted planning permission last year for a development project at a field in Jalan Jujur in this Kuala Lumpur suburb.

A lawyer representing the residents, Zulhazmi Shariff, questioned how planning permission was granted for the 2.1ha plot of land despite its reserved status.

“We are at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission building to lodge a report over alleged wrongdoing in the management of the football field in Jalan Jujur.

“We urge MACC to investigate in detail how planning permission was granted to the developer despite the field’s reserved status,” he said when accompanying residents to lodge a report at the Kuala Lumpur MACC headquarters today

Zulhazmi alleges that DBKL granted planning permission on May 3 last year, when the land was still reserved.

He also showed journalists documents purportedly showing the land being gazetted as reserved from November 24, 2005, until December 22 last year.

“But planning permission was granted on May 3, last year, and DBKL’s conditional permission was granted on October18 last year. How could DBKL process the planning permission on a reserved piece of land that was not DBKL’s?” he said, adding that there were other documents they were prepared to pass to MACC if required.

With the group lodging the report were several DAP and Amanah leaders, including Seputeh MP Teresa Kok.

It is learnt that reserved land is under the supervision of the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Land Works Committee, which is chaired by the chief secretary to the government.

In April, it was reported that Zulhasni had showed documents indicating that DBKL had applied to de-gazette the land in November 4, 2015, to build 640 units of replacement homes for residents of the Sri Labuan flats.

This was upon orders from Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor two months prior to that.

But the land had been sold to developer Sinerjuta Sdn Bhd, which planed to develop the plot in two phases.

A total of 823 affordable housing units – which includes the 640 replacement homes for the Sri Labuan flats –  would be built in the first phase, while 1,015 units sold at market prices would be built in phase two.– June 13, 2017.