Responsibility of Developers

The High Court recently ruled that responsibility of developers in providing the facilities or in building the infrastructure according to approved plan has no limitation on time frame. It means that developer has to provide as such and finish the job no matter how long the projects have been completed. Very often we witnessed the project proponents run away from their duty in providing the facilities and infrastructure after long period especially for the development in phasing or go without notice. This is more so for parcels of land in a larger scheme that have been sold to individual owners. For the individual owners, they have either no knowledge about the requirement or innocent about the conditions imposed. It will come to a time that the new owners claim of unfairness to them as they are only buying a portion of it. The original owners run away from the responsibility after master layout plan approved and individual parcel of land sold. The rulling is timely that local authority should not be blamed for no infrastructure provision, a task supposedly done by the project proponents.