THE Federal Court’s recent ruling that the construction of boom gates across public roads and guardhouses in residential areas is legal, “Okay to have boom gates, guardhouses in housing estates” (The Star, March 26), is timely in view of the many gated and guarded neighbourhoods mushrooming throughout Malaysia now.
The court had dismissed the case of Au Kean Hoe, a resident of D’Villa Equestrian housing estate in Kota Damansara, Selangor, who ceased to be a member of the housing estate residents association, stopped paying security and maintenance charges, and then commenced legal action against the residents association to declare the guardhouse illegal.
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