‘Lavish’ offices face demolition
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THE developer of a building designed to provide office accommodation for park management staff in the Pudong New Area has been ordered to tear part of it down after it was found to breach planning regulations.
Shanghai Cred Real Estate Stock Co was granted approval to build a two-story flat-roofed management and service center within a planned 14,000-square-meter park near East Huanlin and Yinhuan roads, xinmin.cn reported yesterday.
However, the company added several lavish features to the approved design and has now been ordered to remove them, the Pudong New Area Planning and Land Authority was cited as saying.
Among the “added extras” were an entire third story, a pitched roof, a guardhouse and a sunken courtyard, the report said.
The interior design featured chandeliers in the entrance hall, marbled floors and numerous sculptures, while the overall size of the development far exceeded its approved footprint, it said.
As the building was intended to provide office space for park management workers, and storage space for garden tools and equipment, the structure that emerged soon caught the attention of the public and local media.
Following the publication of a newspaper article on the subject, the district planning and land administration launched an investigation and discovered the infringements.
Cred Real Estate was subsequently ordered to rectify the regulation breeches and make the building fit for purpose as approved in the initial design, the xinmin report said, adding that the restructuring work got under way yesterday.
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