Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has sent notices to more than 650 commercial plazas in the city, after a survey discovered that the building layouts of the highlighted structures had not been approved before their construction — according to a news source published on August 25.
According to the details available, the RCB has launched a grand plan to regularise all buildings within its jurisdiction. While homeowners (with homes that were built before 2015) have been provided with an amnesty scheme to regularise their homes without having to pay any fines or fees (except for a PKR 2,500 architect’s fee), the commercial buildings have been warned of legal action in case they do not regularise their buildings in the requisite time period.
The owners have been warned that their buildings can be sealed or even razed in case of non-compliance. The buildings will be sealed in the first phase of the operation, may even be demolished later. The board has also decided to end the role of building inspection officials in the regularisation process.
