The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday sealed 88 illegal commercial properties and commercialisation fee defaulter premises in various housing schemes and LDA-controlled areas. According to LDA officials, the Town Planning Wing sealed 21 buildings in Gulberg and Faisal Town, 32 on GT Road, and 35 in Subzazar Housing Scheme and Wahdat Road during operations targeting violations of commercial use laws and nonpayment of commercialisation fees.
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Among the sealed premises were Askari Grammar School, Reward International School, a Suzuki showroom, Royal Gulberg Hotel, Servis outlet, grocery stores, eateries, workshops, and offices. The LDA enforcement teams also retrieved three plots worth over Rs60 million from illegal occupants in B Block of LDA Avenue I Housing Scheme. The operations were supervised by LDA Chief Town Planner-I Assad-uz-Zaman and LDA Avenue I Director Umar Sohaib, with the assistance of the police and heavy machinery.
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Officials confirmed that multiple notices were issued to property owners before the sealing actions.
LDA Director General Tahir Farooq has instructed the continuation of indiscriminate operations against land grabbers, bylaw violations, illegal commercial constructions, and fee defaulters in all LDA-controlled areas and housing schemes.
