{"id":51589,"date":"2019-04-22T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51589"},"modified":"2019-04-22T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:55:07","slug":"wcla-for-immediate-demolition-of-260-dilapidated-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-for-immediate-demolition-of-260-dilapidated-buildings.html","title":{"rendered":"WCLA for immediate demolition of 260 dilapidated buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has identified 260 dilapidated buildings in the walled city area that should be demolished immediately, reported a news source.<\/p>\n<p>The WCLA conducted a survey of 22,000 buildings constructed in Lahore during the Sikh, Mughal and British eras, and found up to 600 of them in a poor state.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-gets-functional-control-of-historical-buildings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WCLA Gets Functional Control Of Historical Buildings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of these 600 dilapidated buildings, 232 require urgent rehabilitation, while 260 need to be razed to ground to avoid any losses of life. The survey revealed that most of these decrepit buildings are located within the Lohari area.<\/p>\n<p>According to WCLA spokesperson Tania Qureshi, the residents of a building that collapsed on April 21 (causing six deaths) were directed not to construct a third story on the existing structure. The authority warned them that the building\u2019s weak structure would not be able to bear any further load, but the residents continued to ignore this communication \u2013 thereby making way for the incident to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-to-get-pkr-100-million-for-restoration-of-dangerous-buildings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WCLA to get PKR 100 million for restoration of dangerous buildings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WCLA spokesperson also revealed that the authority \u2013 as a matter of practice &#8211; seeks police assistance when it serves notices to the residents of rickety buildings. In addition, it resorts to several legal mechanisms to avoid any untoward situations.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also mentioned that the WCLA has repaired 60 dilapidated constructions so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has identified 260 dilapidated buildings in the walled city area that should be demolished immediately, reported a news source. The WCLA conducted a survey of 22,000 buildings constructed in Lahore during the Sikh, Mughal and British eras, and found up to 600 of them in a poor state. Read:\u00a0WCLA Gets Functional Control Of Historical Buildings Out of these 600 dilapidated buildings, 232 require urgent rehabilitation, while 260 need to be razed to ground to avoid any losses of life. The survey revealed that most of these decrepit buildings are located within the Lohari area. According to WCLA spokesperson Tania Qureshi, the residents of a building that collapsed on April 21 (causing six deaths) were directed not to construct a third story on the existing structure. The authority warned them that the building\u2019s weak structure would not be able to bear any further load, but the residents continued to ignore this communication \u2013 thereby making way for the incident to occur. Read:\u00a0WCLA to get PKR 100 million for restoration of dangerous buildings The WCLA spokesperson also revealed that the authority \u2013 as a matter of practice &#8211; seeks police assistance when it serves&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11407],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-wcla-for-immediate-demolition-of-260-dilapidated-buildings"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WCLA for immediate demolition of 260 dilapidated buildings - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has identified 260 dilapidated buildings in the walled city area that should be demolished immediately,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-for-immediate-demolition-of-260-dilapidated-buildings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WCLA for immediate demolition of 260 dilapidated buildings - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has identified 260 dilapidated buildings in the walled city area that should be demolished immediately,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wcla-for-immediate-demolition-of-260-dilapidated-buildings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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