Ampang Jaya residents win leave to challenge Local Plan 2035
- Twelve residents have won leave from the Shah Alam High Court for a judicial review of the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council Local Plan 2035, gazetted on 6 February 2025. The full hearing is on 25 November 2026.
- They say the plan contains unpublicised land-use conversions, ignored the 2022 objections and allows high-intensity development on hilltops, hillslopes and disaster-risk zones.
- The 2022 draft drew 2,558 respondents and contained 91 proposals to rezone land or raise density, including more industrial land in Taman Desa Keramat.
Twelve Ampang Jaya residents have won leave from the Shah Alam High Court to bring a judicial review against the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council Local Plan 2035 (RT MPAJ 2035). The plan sets land-use zoning, development intensity and infrastructure planning for the municipality. The full hearing is fixed for 25 November 2026.
The residents' action group, Tolak RT2035, announced the decision in a statement on 23 October 2026. A social media post by the group on 19 April 2026 said leave was granted on 17 April. The leave application was filed in May 2025.
What the residents claim
- Flaws in the plan: it contains "fundamental flaws and unpublicised land-use conversions", the group says
- Ignored objections: the gazetted plan did not take in the objections raised at the 2022 public hearings
- Hillside development: it allows "high-intensity developments" on hilltops, hillslopes and established disaster-risk zones, raising the risk of soil erosion, landslides and flash floods
- Areas named: Bukit Antarabangsa, Taman Hillview, Ukay Perdana, Taman Melawati, Kemensah and Taman Ukay Heights, which the group calls high-risk zones facing "intensive and mega developments"
- The right to object: leaving the plan unchallenged would weaken the public's right under the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 to object to future projects
The court allowed the application after finding that it raised arguable questions of law and fact that deserve a full hearing, the group said. Leave lets the challenge go ahead; it does not decide whether the plan is unlawful.
The plan's history
- 2011: the previous Ampang Jaya local plan was gazetted, then amended in 2013 and 2016
- May to July 2022: the draft Local Plan 2035 was put on public display
- September and October 2022: public hearings at Menara MPAJ, chaired by Selangor exco members. 2,558 respondents sent feedback or objections. The draft contained 91 proposals to rezone land or raise density. Most objections concerned the MRT3 Circle Line alignment and changes of land use
- Industrial rezoning: one resident objected at the 2022 hearing to more land in Taman Desa Keramat being rezoned for industry, next to existing factories and distribution facilities. A Pandan Mewah resident objected to higher density in an area with one main access road
- 6 February 2025: the Selangor government gazetted the plan
What is not known yet
- Which land-use conversions the residents say were not publicised
- Who the respondents in the case are
- The council's response: none has been published
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