The staff of the Estate Management Directorate and Town Planning Wing of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) demolished some 25 illegal structures on Friday, including platforms, ramps and other constructions and cleared the service road from Y junction Garden Town to Kalima Chowk, Ferozpur Road.
According to a LDA's spokesman, all these encroachments had been causing impediments in movement by pedestrians, flow of traffic as well as quick disposal of storm water from the area.
The LDA's anti-encroachment drive is going on in its scheme area and utility area of private housing schemes with a view to purging these vicinities of illegal structures and other disorders that create hurdles in pedestrians' movement, smooth flow of traffic as well as quick disposal of storm water from roads.
It has urged residents of its schemes' area for voluntarily eliminating all encroachments without further delay, failing which they would have to bear the demolition charges as well. The encroachers would also be dealt with under sections 33, 34 and 40 of LDA Act 1975.