LAHORE—The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) sealed 45 illegal commercial buildings and commercialization defaulter premises including 13 marriage halls/marques in different parts of Lahore on Friday.
LDA Town Planning Wing sealed 13 marriage halls/marques in Gujjarpura, and 32 buildings in Allama Iqbal Town for illegal commercial use and nonpayment of commercialisation fees.
The sealed premises include Khan-e-Azam Banquet Hall, Punjab Academy, private school, dental clinic, grocery stores, food outlets, saloons, offices and other businesses.
The LDA teams also partially demolished a marque on Canal Bank Road for violation of approved building plan.
LDA Chief Town Planner I Assad-uz-Zaman supervised the operations, which were carried out by the enforcement teams with the help of the Police and heavy machinery.
As per the LDA officials, several notices were served to the owners of these buildings before carrying out the operations.
LDA Director General Tahir Farooq has directed continuing indiscriminate operations against violation of building bylaws, illegal commercial buildings and commercialisation fee defaulters in Lahore.
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