GEORGE TOWN: The demolition of a two-storey bungalow in Jalan Clove Hall was initiated with approval from the Penang Island City Council (MBPP), checks found.
A spokesman from the council, who referred the matter to its Building Department, said the owner of the privately owned building had obtained permission to work on it."They had obtained planning permission to demolish it," said a response from the department.
Meanwhile, Penang Heritage Commissioner Rosli Nor said the bungalow owned by a Chinese family was believed to have been built in the 1920s. He said the building had also been inventorised twice by George Town World Heritage Incorporated but because it fell outside boundaries of the World Heritage site, it would be up to MBPP if to gazette it for preservation."As it is outside the boundary of the heritage site, it would be up to MBPP to gazette it under a Category II heritage building, which meant that it was important but privately owned.
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