“Two developers are pushing the responsibility onto one another, blaming each other for the cracked walls and not wanting to fix [the problem],” said Kajang assemblyperson Lee Kim Sin.
The two parties involved are the developer of Puncak Saujana and that of a new site located behind the housing area.According to Lee, the Puncak Saujana developer claims the other developer hadn’t properly maintained the new site, causing cracks to appear in houses during digging and piling works.
Some of the cracks are as wide as 5cm.
However, the other developer argued that Jalan Puncak Saujana 2/3 was built on a site where construction waste had been dumped during earlier phases of development.
The Kajang Municipal Council (MPKj) has asked both developers to conduct a soil test on their respective sites. The results from the test will be handed in to MPKj before a meeting will be held with both developers, Lee, and the affected residents.
“We will try to find a solution at the meeting. The developer responsible, based on the soil test, will have to repair the houses,” said Lee.
For now, residents will have to bear with the cracks while waiting for the results and the meeting.
“I’m so worried because of the crack in my kitchen. It is not safe to live under such conditions,” said resident Mohd Saberi Ramli.
The 42-year-old workshop supervisor said he had noticed three 5mm cracks in his wall on June 20, which widened 18 days later to 5cm.
He hopes that the developer will repair the defects as soon as possible.
Selangor Times Issue 33
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