233 CONDO PURCHASERS AT WIT'S END

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

12th SEPTEMBER 2009

PETALING JAYA, Saturday: A group of 45 disgruntled owners of Paramount View Condominium, representing 233 purchasers who have been deprived of moving into their fully completed units, attended an hour-long meeting yesterday evening to express their grouses and pleas to Y.B. Tony Pua (MP of Petaling Jaya Utara) and Y.B. Lau Weng San (ADUN Kg. Tunku) at their service centre.

It has been three months since the completion of Paramount View Condominium in Seksyen 22, Taman Aman, but purchasers have not been able to occupy their respective units due to a dispute involving a handful of neighbouring residents who protested to the construction of the condominium’s access road along Jalan SS1/25 and Jalan 22/44.

Consequently, the developer of the project, Sri Aman Development Sdn. Bhd., was instructed by MBPJ to build a new access road adjoining Jalan SS1/26, which involved running parallel to electricity pylons on TNB reserve land.

According to the property development division general manager of Sri Aman Development, Mr. Ang Wan Hai, the new SS1/26 access road was approved in the MBPJ council meeting and the layout plans were endorsed. However, while the new access road was being built, a stop-work order was issued by TNB.

“Since we have been denied access to SS1/26, MBPJ should allow us to revert to the original plan that the council had approved in 2007, which involves building the access road on Jalan SS1/25”, added Ang.


In view of the current quandary, the 233 Paramount View Condo purchasers are helplessly crying foul as they now own a parcel in the air with no way in or out of their unit. This is the first and only investment property for a majority of the purchasers – many of whom have started servicing their bank loans. Some purchasers who are paying additional rent for their current accommodation are barely making end’s meet, while they anxiously wait for this issue to be resolved.

“If MBPJ had not denied us the access road that they themselves had approved in 2007, the developer would have been able to perform its contractual obligations and we would be in our respective homes today”, said Melvin Reynolds, president of the pro-tem committee for Paramount View Condominium purchasers.

“Clearly, we are the main victims in this unjust matter and have been suffering in silence. Being at our wits’ end, we can only be hopeful that the MBPJ councillors, Y.B Tony Pua and Y.B. Lau Weng San will consider the emotional and financial strain that every purchaser is going through”, added Melvin.

It is understood that the pro-tem committee have personally communicated with several MBPJ officers but to no avail. The pro-tem committee hopes to have a three-way meeting between MBPJ, the developer and the purchases to amicability resolve this matter as soon as possible without any adverse effects on either party.