{"id":771,"date":"2009-08-26T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/08\/pre-war-buildings-to-make-way-for-redevelopment\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:39:21","slug":"pre-war-buildings-to-make-way-for-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/pre-war-buildings-to-make-way-for-redevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-war buildings to make way for redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_byline\"><font face=\"tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">By R.S.N. MURALI and SAZALI M. NOOR<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>KUALA TERENGGANU:<\/strong> The state government will go ahead and demolish 35 pre-war buildings along Jalan Bandar and Jalan Banggol here despite protests from their owners.<\/p>\n<p>Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the owners, who were mainly traders, had been issued with sufficient notice to make way for the redevelopment of both areas, which had been planned previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese areas require a facelift so that they can complement Kuala Terengganu as a modern city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be an eyesore if the city is filled with dilapidated structures. The owners have to vacate their premises to make way for the redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will go ahead with the demolition if they continue to defy the notice,\u201d he said when met at Kemaman Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad said the state government had paid out compensation to most traders because the redevelopment project had been earmarked since 1990s and that they were also given an alternative site for them to relocate their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese traders should honour the agreement made then without twisting the facts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The owners had staged a peaceful demonstration on Sunday, in which they claimed that the state government had been unfair in issuing them a 30-day evacuation notice.<\/p>\n<p>Goldsmith Som Ali, 40, said she was disappointed with the manner the notices had been issued without giving them the opportunity to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received the notice on July 19 and we have until August 13 to relocate our business. That\u2019s a short period. How can we find the financial resources within a limited time?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Electrical shop owner How Kok Kong, 65, said the state government should continue with the facelift without demolishing the old structures as they were part of the city\u2019s Chinatown heritage and had sentimental value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been living in Jalan Banggol since my childhood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Businessman Chang Lai Lian, 65, said he hoped the state government would extend the deadline to next year to enable traders to come up with money for their relocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notice is too short as we have occupied these row of shophouses for more than a century,\u201d he added.-The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By R.S.N. MURALI and SAZALI M. NOOR KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government will go ahead and demolish 35 pre-war buildings along Jalan Bandar and Jalan Banggol here despite protests from their owners. Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the owners, who were mainly traders, had been issued with sufficient notice to make way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}