Lahore: Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General (DG) Muhammad Usman Moazzam has directed the staff concerned to consider ground realities and local needs while drafting bylaws for high-rise buildings, a news source reported.
He expressed this during a briefing he received on initial drafts prepared for the planned high-rise developments in Lahore. LDA Director Commercialisation Shakeel Anjum Minhas, Deputy Director Mehmood Akhtar, and Town Planning Director Tariq Mehmood and other important LDA officials also attended the briefing session.
For carefully drafting the related bylaws, DG Moazzam instructed his staff to include professionals from the construction and architecture field and students and professors from the National College of Arts and the University of Engineering and Technology. Furthermore, he also recommended that suggestions of the stakeholders and public in general should also be sought.
The LDA DG stressed that encouraging high-rise developments in Lahore is vital for saving agriculturally viable land otherwise wasted by developing conventional housing schemes.
