Backed by Klang MP Charles Santiago, residents of a new housing development in Klang want the legitimacy of the Certificate of Completion and Compliance (CCC) issued for their houses to be investigated.

The residents claim that the CCC was issued in January this year and they have received the keys to their houses.

However the houses in Taman Ehsan Jaya in Pandamaran, Klang, and the surrounding area are in such bad condition that many residents are refusing to move in.

The houses were built by Melati Ehsan Consolidated Sdn Bhd.

"What we purchased these properties for is not what we're getting," residents committee chairperson Wong Hee Boon said in Shah Alam today.

Alarmingly, the retaining wall built to protect the houses from Sungai Aur, which is right next to the houses, has collapsed twice.

As of now, the retaining wall has not been rebuilt since the second collapse.

This is a major concern for the house buyers, especially since the CCC is only issued once the houses are ready to be occupied, Klang municipal councillor Yew Boon Lye said.

Yew said he visited the site on March 25 and found the houses to be in a deplorable condition.

Matter may move to Housing Ministry

There are water leakages everywhere in the houses, including in one house where water is even leaking into the electricity fuse box, he claimed.

"The CCC was issued in January, and the developer said these problems occurred after it obtained the CCC. However, these things don't just happen overnight," Yew said.

The residents, along with Santiago and Yew, were at the Selangor State Secretariat (SUK) building to submit a memorandum to the Select Committee on Local Government Authority (JPPBT), asking it to investigate this matter further.

JPPBT committee member R Rajiv, who accepted the memorandum, said he would bring it to the committee meeting today so that they can look into it immediately.

"We are looking at the legitimacy of the CCC itself. How did it get issued when there are still so many problems?

“This is a major breach and this breach must be addressed," Santiago insisted.

He also revealed that if the matter was declared to be out of the hands of the JPPBT, the house buyers would take it up with the Housing Ministry.