Tag: UDA Developments in Colombo

  • New Chairman and Director General for Urban Development Authority

    Change the Position of Chairman and Director General – Urban Development Authority We wish to inform you that the Chairman and Director General of this Authority have been resigned from their positions with effect from 13 January 2015 and details of newly appointed Chairman and Director General are as follows.   Position: Chairman Name: Ranjit…

  • Colombo City and Subs Garbage going to be Solid Waste to Puttalam

    For the first time in Sri Lanka history, the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) will transport garbage as part of a solid-waste disposal project in which garbage will be collected from Colombo City and the suburbs. The garbage will be disposed at a site in Aruakkalu in Puttalam under a newly formulated Municipal Solid Waste Disposal…

  • World Vision developed a Five-year-plan for Wattala Urban Development Programme

    The World Vision gas developed a next five-year plan of the Wattala Urban Development Programme in their recent meeting at office of World Vision Lanka. The discussions were held at Ananda Reception hall in Wattala recently.

  • Floating market, latest attraction in Colombo

    The construction of the floating market at Bastian Mawatha, which is part of the Colombo City Development Project, implemented by the Urban Development Authority is complete. Thousands of people including foreigners visiting Colombo can buy products at this market where 92 stalls have been set up to sell local products. This floating market also targets…

  • A floating market on the Beira, Colombo

    The first ever floating market in the county is to be declared open soon, the Urban development Authority (UDA) said. The market situated in Pettah is being constructed on the Bara Lake adjacent to Bastian Mawatha in Pettah. The UDA had earlier plumed to open the market before the Sinhala & Tamil New Year but…

  • 350 metres Lotus Tower on progress to be the tallest in Lanka

    The Lotus Tower that Is being constructed down D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha has reached a height of 50 metres now. The telecommunication regulatory official stated that feasibility studies for the second, phase of the project are ongoing with the finalisations to structural drawings. It will take another one or two months for the feasibility studies to…

  • 30,000 Houses by 2015 for Low Income earners in Colombo Srilanka at an affordable price – Prices attached

    Authority (UDA) is to begin constructing seven new housing schemes in Colombo for low- income earners. The authority said its target was 10,000  housing units under the new phase which is scheduled to be completed within 18 months. The project at Applewatta, Maligawatta, Aluth Mawatha in Mattakkuliya Madampitiya. Kimbulala, Bloemendhal and Torrington have been given…

  • Wi-Fi to all redevelopment under UDA

    Free Wi-Fi facilities will be available in all areas and buildings constructed and redeveloped by the Urban Development Authority (UDA). The UDA said that it had partnered with Sri Lanka Telecom to upgrade and provide state-of-the-art telecommunication facilities to all its redevelopment projects in the country. LED screens providing information to the public and for…

  • Colombo Fish Market to Colombo Gold Center – Cover Story of Reformation of Mallu Kadde to Good Centre

    The Ministry of Defence and Urban Development announced that the conversion of the former Pettah fish market into a gold centre was almost complete and it would be opened shortly. The building which housed the former fish market which was shifted to Peliyagoda has been converted to a five-storey complex to house gems, jewellery and…