Tangerang limits housing estates

Tangerang limits housing estates

JAKARTA (JP): The Tangerang Regency will restrict the issuance of permits for the development of new housing complexes, claiming that the current number of residential areas is sufficient.

Ena Karlina, spokesperson for the regency, was quoted by Antara as saying yesterday that the Tangerang regency has issued 234 permits to date for residential developments covering 29,000 hectares.

Out of the 29,000 hectares of land, only 15 percent has so far been developed, she said.

"The Tangerang administration will reconsider the permits given to those developers that have not yet started their projects in a bid to avoid delay," she said, quoting Regent H. Saifullah AR at the Regional Legislative Council recently.

Commenting on the industrial development, Ena said that out of the 4,500 hectares of land set aside by the regency for the establishment of industrial estates, only 30 percent has been utilized.

The Tangerang administration has temporarily frozen the issuance of permits for the construction of new industries in the regency in line with a circular from the Ministry of Industry, declaring that the regency is closed to new factories.

"We are still waiting for further instruction from the central government concerning the freezing of the issuance of the industrial permits," she said. (31)