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LUCKNOW: Golfers just might get their greens back this time. In a move that prompts genuine golfers at the prestigious Lucknow Golf Club to dust their clubs and set out to tee and La Martiniere College some relief, a decision has been taken to seal the LGC clubhouse as it has been illegally constructed.
The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Tuesday cleared the decks for sealing the clubhouse and swimming pool when the enforcement wing of the authority proceeded with preparing a notice to this effect.The action came almost eight months after the housing department declared buildings of the club as illegal as they had been constructed on a green belt area. Moreover, the application for sanctioning of the map too did not have the approval of the owners of the club land, the La Martiniere College. In fact, the La Martiniere College had objected to the move, while bringing to the attention of the LDA that even the lease of the club had expired on March 12, 2008.
LDA vice-chairman, Mukesh Kumar Meshram confirmed that they would be sending a notice to the club under section 16 of the urban planning and development Act 1973 (violation of the land use) before getting the buildings of the club sealed. He said that enforcement wing has already been asked to send a notice under the provision.
������The land in possession of the club is a green belt. No construction can be carried out on it,������ Meshram said, while talking to TOI on Tuesday evening.
The LDA had earlier sought the opinion of the state government over the construction on green belt area. In response, the housing department in December 2008 made no bones about the fact that the construction had been done illegally.