Announcements



“Strata Titles Development and Update”
30 November 2013
Time : 08:00am-05:30pm
Venue : One World Hotel

Speaker 1 : Dr. Haji Alias bin Rameli

Planning Guidelines For Gated Community And Guarded Neighbourhood
Planning Guidelines for Gated Community and Guarded Neighbourhood is prepared to assist the state authority, local authority and technical agencies in the planning and control of housing development based on gated community (GC) and guarded neighbourhood (GN) concept. The main scope of this guideline concentrates on the development of GC that are built according to Strata Title Act, 1985 (Act 318). It comprises of explanation concerning planning principles as well as general and specific guides covering physical planning aspect, laws and social requirements. This guideline also outlines the different ways of control and condition to guide the residential associations of the existing and the new neighbourhood areas in forming and organising GN. In brief, development of GC scheme is required to comply with the general planning control, such as GC development is only permitted at specific location; the area to be considered for development of GC scheme is 1.0 hectare to 10.0 hectares; and common property facilities need to be maintained by the residents themselves via an appointed management corporation. The specific guideline for the development of GC schemes comprise of 14 aspects of physical planning control standards.

Speaker 2: Mr. Richard Dimmick

Gated Community Security Planning Considerations and Sustainability
With the increasing demand for a safe and secure living space by property owners and the increase in crime in Malaysia there has been a dramatic increase in the provision of guarded and gated developments in the property market. Much of the success and sustainability of these developments is reliant on the implementation of sound principles of security during the initial design phase. Where many communities fail the problems, in many cases, can be traced back to errors in the design phase of the project. The talk will high light considerations that need to be made to make the community function successfully in terms of security and give advice on the selection, location and sighting of equipment to ensure the the functionality of both the physical and electronic security system is not compromised by bad planning or poor selection of equipment. It will also touch on guidance regarding landscaping and sound principles of "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Planning" (CPTEP) and the functionality of gate house designs.

Speaker 3: Mr. Chris Tan

Strata Living Moving Forward
The Parliament has passed the Strata Titles (Amendment) Act 2013 and the Strata Management Act 2013 as a step to enhance and improve the existing Stratas Title Act 1985 and Building and Common Property (Maintenance and Management) Act 2007 respectively. Both of the 2013 Acts have not be enforced till today and the aim of this presentation is to make an overview analysis on the updates for both Acts as compare to the current Acts in force. Among the highlights of the presentation are:-

  • time frame for compulsory application for subdivision of building or land
  • limited common property
  • subsidiary management corporation
  • Strata Management Tribunal

Speaker 4: Ar. Chee Soo Teng

Evolution of the Strata Titles Act 1985 (Act 318) up to 2013
The Strata Titles Act operates alongside the National Land Code, the Town and Country Planning Act, the UBBL 1984 as well as the Housing Development Act and they are each intended to address different issues whilst remaining intertwined in the development process. It is therefore important for the Architect or Developer to have a working knowledge of the Act so that they know the difference between a desirable concept and an achievable end product to enable development intentions to be translated into titled properties seamlessly. Concepts can only be realized by pragmatic execution.

With strata titled properties accounting for a good percentage of the actual number of buildings being built, and the proliferation of all manners of strata titled properties following major amendments to the Strata Titles Act in 2007 and the latest amendments introduced in early 2013, it is imperative that Architects and Developers understand the implications and impacts of their decisions in the development process.

With the amendments to section 6 of the Act in 2007, we have 3 main variations to Strata Titled schemes consisting of the following :-

  1. Traditional multi storey blocks where each unit or parcel is issued a strata title.
  2. Mixed building developments consisting of a combination of multi storey blocks containing conventional strata titled parcels and landed parcels containing bungalows, semi detached houses, terrace houses or townhouses.
  3. Purely landed property developments containing only landed parcels.

This seminar will touch on the evolution of the nature of ownership from the first shop houses and early apartments to the current crop of mixed landed strata titled properties with emphasis on the impact of conceptual design decisions affecting the outcome and the limitations placed on design and development decisions by the STA.

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