PENANG RECLAMATIONS: THEN AND NOW

The heritage Clan Jetties and old Malayan Railway Building stand on land reclaimed for harbour trade activities in the early 19th century by the British administration.A 2017 research article on land reclamation and artificial islands in the Global Ecology and Conservation journal stated that the island’s reclaimed land increased from 0.4sqkm in 1960 to 9.5sqkm in 2015.

The developer that funded and built the LCE was given the right to reclaim the Jelutong coast for real estate development. It was the first highway in the country to adopt such a privatisation deal, according to a 2002 article on highway privatisations in Malaysia in the International Journal of Construction Marketing.

When they are completed in the decades to come, Penang Island’s reclaimed land, including the new manmade islands, will make up about 10% of its total size.Datuk Seri Chet Singh, the Penang Development Corporation’s first general manager following its founding in 1969, said Penang lacked “actual land”, which had led the state government to turn to reclamation decades ago.

Datuk Seri Chet Singh said the state development agency already started looking at potential reclamation sites decades ago because the island lacked suitable land for future development. Back then, other than the Prai cockle farmers, he said the Penang government and PDC did not face much resistance against reclamation projects in Bayan Lepas, the Macallum area in Pengkalan Weld, and along the Jelutong coastline.

The 930-hectare Island A – the first to be reclaimed – will house an industrial park for high-tech industries of the future. Island B and Island C will house business hubs and a resort island with world-class tourism attractions. Farizan stressed that PSI was being planned for high-technology industries and development for the future, and not for profit, adding that the state government was committed towards mitigating the reclamation impact on the environment.

“All conditions in the EIA and the Environmental Management Plan will be followed to the letter to minimise the impact and to enable conservation,” he said.

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