We are regular Taman Desa residents who are concerned about unsustainable development in our neighbourhood.

Some of us were born here, some of us just moved here – but ultimately all of us call Taman Desa home.

We have seen the systematic destruction of our beloved taman in the past few years and decided to take action.

The KL Local Plan 2040, or the Pelan Tempatan Kuala Lumpur 2040 is a legal city plan published by DBKL that determines what land can be used for and what can or cannot be built.

The document rezoned our playground land and police station land to residential sites with a plot ratio of 3.5. This takes away public amenity lands and gives them to profit-making developers to build more high-rise projects

No, a judicial review is to question the legal process of the rezoning of both lands. We are not directly fighting nor criticizing DBKL or the developers.

We cannot guarantee or give you a definite chance of success, but we miss 100% of the shots we do not take. We have decided to grab any chance we have to protect Taman Desa from unsustainable overdevelopment.

Thomas Philip is one of Malaysia’s most experienced litigation firms, specializing in public interest cases and legal disputes involving land and planning.

They have argued over 3000 cases including major community-led legal challenges.

A major landmark case was the Taman Rimba Kiara dispute, in which they managed to successfully halt a high-rise project and defended a public green space.