The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has partially demolished four illegal plazas inside Masti Gate besides demolishing a numbeer of encroachments on Friday The operations were carried out with the support of local police and the staff of Building Control department of WCLA.
During a recent operation against the illegal constructions inside Walled City, the partially demolished properties were F-2164 (Malik Arshad Plaza in Kotwali Chowk), C-1873 (Plaza in Gulshan Street Masti Gate), C-1876 Plaza in Gulshan Street Masti Gate) and E-46 (Plaza Shah Almi Mor inside Shah Almi Gate). Further, four temporary encroachments were completely demolished which were located on the main drain line of Akbari Gate, Thara in Wacho Wali, Quarter 4 behind Tibbi Thana and Choori Bazaar.
The operation against illegal constructions, especially plazas, was launched by WCLA during Ramazan this year and now it is being carried out on daily basis. Over the past two weeks, 11 plazas have been partially demolished, three permanent and four temporary encroachments in different parts of walled city have been demolished by the Building Control department. WCLA Director Conservation and Planning Najam Saquib said that as per the section 32 (2b) of WCLA Act 2012 these operations were being carried out to erase the illegal constructions from the city. He said that WCLA would be starting demolition operations on daily basis from this week.
He mentioned that these operations are giving an aggressive message to the plaza mafia and illegal property owners and more operations would make an impact in controlling the new illegal constructions.