The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has given its approval to several relaxations in its houses. Though the UT administration had recently announced these relaxations, residents feel many important demands have still not been met by the Board authorities.
Among several relaxations allowed are a provision for sunshade on doors and windows wherever these are not provided. The CHB has also allowed an opening in the wall for running ACs, coolers and exhaust fans.
It has, however, not conceded the demand for conversion of scooter garages into stores or toilets, which was one of the major demands of residents.
CHB allottees had also demanded that in independent houses in various sectors like 47, 46, 44, 43, 41 and 40, 38 West and Modern Housing Complex, Manimajra, the covered area at the ground level should be increased to 75 per cent of the plot area and the space below the staircase in the front compound should be used to construct a small room. The decision on this has been deferred.
The CHB has also turned down the demands for an additional room on all floors in LIG flats and parking space for ground floor houses in these flats. Residents had also sought permission for a front courtyard by erecting boundary walls, construction of a room in the rear courtyard and a side gate in the rear courtyard of corner houses for parking of vehicles. All these demands have not been accepted.
The UT administration has also rejected the demand of MIG Category-II flat owners in Sectors 41-D and 19-C for covering cutout spaces on first and second floors and converting them into rooms with RCC slabs.
In Sector 38 West, the administration has turned down the proposal for construction of another terrace on the first and second floors of HIG houses.
The CHB may, however, allow construction of a car porch in the area earmarked for parking of vehicles of first and second floor allottees.
In case of Sector 45-A MIG flats, occupants of upper floors have been denied permission to construct a room over the roof of the ground floor room in the rear courtyard.
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