The Street Drainage and Building Act requires that hoardings be installed to fence off any building sitae. The enforcement os the SDBA is left to the localauthrity which on Penang Island is the MPPP.
For more than four years now, the heritage building at the cornet of Bishop Street and Beach Street has been under restoration. The dilapidated and positevly ugly hoaring is still up and there are no impending signs that works will be finishe soon.
In the meantime the ugly sight remains and the exit of Bisop Street to Beach Street continues to be narrowed.
Surely it could not have been the intention of the framers of the SDBA that temporary over the course of time becomes permanent as a result of non enforcement and sheer "could not be botheredness"?
For more than four years now, the heritage building at the cornet of Bishop Street and Beach Street has been under restoration. The dilapidated and positevly ugly hoaring is still up and there are no impending signs that works will be finishe soon.
In the meantime the ugly sight remains and the exit of Bisop Street to Beach Street continues to be narrowed.
Surely it could not have been the intention of the framers of the SDBA that temporary over the course of time becomes permanent as a result of non enforcement and sheer "could not be botheredness"?
