KCC ACTS ON BUILDING OFFENDERS

THE Kitwe City Council (KCC) inspectorate team has closed four business premises and ordered demolition of a church structure for contravening building regulations of the Urban and Regional Planning Act Number 3 of 2015.

KCC public relations manager Roy Kuseka said the business entities closed included Golden King Limited’s ware house under construction, PQ and C Investment plant, part of China Mall, and Wonderland Academya private school in New Chamboli township.

Mr Kuseka said prior to the premises’ closure, the council warned the developers to correct their mistakes but the latter did nothing, forcing KCC to shut down the premises.

“An incomplete but functional church building in Ndeke run by Power Embassy is earmarked for demolition due to the developer’s excessive violation of the building regulations.

The state in which the structure is poses danger to lives of the church congregants,” Mr Kuseka said.

He said the inspectorate team inspected several premises and the affected developers were summoned to the civic centre to answer to charges of non-compliance with building regulations.

Mr. Kuseka said the developers would be fined K20, 000 each and would be slapped with other statutory penalty fees.

He said the law required developers to submit building plans to the local authority for scrutiny before any construction works commenced, an obligation that most of them ignored.

Mr Kuseka said the inspection exercise would cover the entire to restore sanity in Kitwe.