Jln Kelang Lama may lose iconic wet market

Under the KLLP2040, the site where Jalan Kelang Lama wet market (left) now stands is listed as a Commercial Land Use Zone (Category C), with a plot ratio of 1:5, allowing buildings up to five times the size of the land. — Photos: IZZRAFIQUE ALIAS and AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

THE future of the wet market in Jalan Kelang Lama is uncertain after it has been left out of the list of public facilities in the newly gazetted Kuala Lumpur Local Plan 2040 (KLLP2040).

Although traders and residents had asked for the 60-year-old wet market in Batu 4½ to be kept as a public amenity, the market’s site on Lot 53683 has been zoned for commercial use instead, said Happy Garden and Continental Park Residents Association secretary Evelyne Low.