00:00The KL High Court has dismissed a judicial review to challenge the gazetting of the Kuala
00:07Lumpur City Plan, KLCP 2020. High Court Judge Amarjeet Singh delivered the ruling on Wednesday
00:14without providing the grounds for judgment. The applicants, comprising eight individuals,
00:20filed a judicial review application in January 2019 to challenge the Federal Territories
00:26Minister's gazettement of the KLCP 2020. They argued that the KLCP 2020, gazetted in October
00:342018, included 273 addendums that were not in the original draft from 2008. They claimed
00:42that this version had not undergone public participation and consultation, rendering
00:47its adoption unlawful. After the ruling, Lead Counsel Datuk Dr Gurdial Singh Nijjar said
00:54they would consider appealing the case.
00:56Our contention is that after the whole process, public participation was over, the plan was
01:03ready for gazetting. They did not gazette it. They left it for a long time, many, several
01:09years. And later when they wanted to gazette it, they made changes to the plan that had
01:16gone through the whole public participation process. And we say that that is not legal.
01:23You cannot make changes after the public participation process is over because public
01:30participation is a very critical element in the development of any plan, structure plan
01:37or local plan. So they made changes after that without going back to the public to ascertain
01:44whether they agree with the changes in respect of the whole plan itself, local plan, you
01:51know. And that's very critical because in the Taman Rimba Kera case, they said that
01:57public participation is the most essential element when the government, when DBKL draws
02:03up plans, including the initial structure plan as well as the local plan. So that was
02:10our challenge, but the court has dismissed our case and they have not given any grounds.
02:18So we have been instructed more or less tentatively at the moment to appeal.
02:24The applicants have 30 days to file for an appeal.
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