An expatriate couple and a state-backed developer have been told to negotiate over its plans for a 27-storey condominium and office development at the site of eight heritage houses off Burma Road.
Cheong Yew Sheng, the lawyer for the couple, said the Penang State Appeals Board has set Sept 10 for negotiations between the couple and PDC Properties following the couple’s application for a stay on the project pending their appeal to revoke planning permission.
The negotiations will be on the terms and extent of the stay, and whether it will be limited to a stretch of the heritage homes in Jalan Chow Thye, or the entire project.
“My clients wanted the entire project to be stayed pending the disposal of their appeal,” he said.
British-German couple Louise Goss-Custard and Thomas Schmidt, who own a near-century old Peranakan mansion there, filed an appeal to the board…