{"id":54887,"date":"2019-09-02T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54887"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:42:28","slug":"environment-protection-lhc-sets-new-laws-for-housing-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/environment-protection-lhc-sets-new-laws-for-housing-schemes.html","title":{"rendered":"Environment protection: LHC sets new laws for housing schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the housing schemes to make plantation of two trees per house mandatory for issuance of an NOC, a news source reported. In the case of non-compliance, the house map (building plan) will not be approved.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-approved-schemes-plant-trees-according-their-respective-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LDA-approved schemes to plant trees according to their respective areas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To implement the order, the court has instructed the Government of Punjab to amend the concerned laws to implement the order. Furthermore, the court also ordered that heavy penalties will be imposed on those found involved in felling.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-orders-private-societies-to-plant-trees-on-7-of-total-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LDA orders private societies to plant trees on 7% of total area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LHC gave a 78-page long verdict while hearing a petition filed by civil society activists in Lahore. As per this verdict, the factories and industries not taking part in the plantation drive will also be pursued legally. In order to ensure success of the campaign, the court instructed the provincial government to facilitate the Forest Department and Parks and Horticulture Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plantation-drive-starts-in-lda-monitored-housing-schemes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plantation drive starts in LDA-monitored housing schemes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The court also directed that the concerned department will be responsible for tagging and taking care of these trees. Furthermore, this department will also issue an annual report on the plantation campaign, and issue permits that will allow felling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the housing schemes to make plantation of two trees per house mandatory for issuance of an NOC, a news source reported. In the case of non-compliance, the house map (building plan) will not be approved. Read:\u00a0LDA-approved schemes to plant trees according to their respective areas To implement the order, the court has instructed the Government of Punjab to amend the concerned laws to implement the order. Furthermore, the court also ordered that heavy penalties will be imposed on those found involved in felling. Read:\u00a0LDA orders private societies to plant trees on 7% of total area The LHC gave a 78-page long verdict while hearing a petition filed by civil society activists in Lahore. As per this verdict, the factories and industries not taking part in the plantation drive will also be pursued legally. In order to ensure success of the campaign, the court instructed the provincial government to facilitate the Forest Department and Parks and Horticulture Authority. Read:\u00a0Plantation drive starts in LDA-monitored housing schemes The court also directed that the concerned department will be responsible for tagging and taking care of these trees. Furthermore, this department will also issue an annual report&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12830],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-lhc-sets-new-laws-for-housing-schemes-for-planting-trees"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Environment protection: LHC sets new laws for housing schemes - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the housing schemes to make plantation of two trees per house mandatory for issuance of an NOC, a news\" \/>\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\/environment-protection-lhc-sets-new-laws-for-housing-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environment protection: LHC sets new laws for housing schemes - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the housing schemes to make plantation of two trees per house mandatory for issuance of an NOC, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/environment-protection-lhc-sets-new-laws-for-housing-schemes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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