KL High Court dismisses bid to challenge gazetting of KL City Plan 2020

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court has dismissed a judicial review to challenge the gazetting of the Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 (KLCP 2020).  High Court Judge Amarjeet Singh delivered the ruling on Wednesday (March 12) without providing the grounds for judgment.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/bdhh6vun  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The KL High Court has dismissed a judicial review to challenge the gazetting of the Kuala

00:07Lumpur City Plan, KLCP 2020. High Court Judge Amarjeet Singh delivered the ruling on Wednesday

00:14without providing the grounds for judgment. The applicants, comprising eight individuals,

00:20filed a judicial review application in January 2019 to challenge the Federal Territories

00:26Minister's gazettement of the KLCP 2020. They argued that the KLCP 2020, gazetted in October

00:342018, included 273 addendums that were not in the original draft from 2008. They claimed

00:42that this version had not undergone public participation and consultation, rendering

00:47its adoption unlawful. After the ruling, Lead Counsel Datuk Dr Gurdial Singh Nijjar said

00:54they would consider appealing the case.

00:56Our contention is that after the whole process, public participation was over, the plan was

01:03ready for gazetting. They did not gazette it. They left it for a long time, many, several

01:09years. And later when they wanted to gazette it, they made changes to the plan that had

01:16gone through the whole public participation process. And we say that that is not legal.

01:23You cannot make changes after the public participation process is over because public

01:30participation is a very critical element in the development of any plan, structure plan

01:37or local plan. So they made changes after that without going back to the public to ascertain

01:44whether they agree with the changes in respect of the whole plan itself, local plan, you

01:51know. And that's very critical because in the Taman Rimba Kera case, they said that

01:57public participation is the most essential element when the government, when DBKL draws

02:03up plans, including the initial structure plan as well as the local plan. So that was

02:10our challenge, but the court has dismissed our case and they have not given any grounds.

02:18So we have been instructed more or less tentatively at the moment to appeal.

02:24The applicants have 30 days to file for an appeal.

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