Kg Seri Batu 8 Labu – a Chinese Village and urban sprawl

Kg Seri Batu 8 Labu, Seremban is a small traditional Chinese village in Negeri Sembilan.

The traditional Chinese village is more like the places that freed from busy lives in the noisy and congested cities. Surrounded by oil palm estate, the places preserved their own paces and original lifestyle.

Although it’s essential to view village, to widen their development base and meet growing needs, but unfortunately, there is no development taking place at the small village and there are no silver-bullets that can just fire to solve the development problem.

Ironically, urbanization has significant economic effects on the town itself and surrounding areas. Moreover, the effects of urban sprawl can be devastating or subtle in and around large, medium-sized, and small cities, as well as small town.

As the populations of the town grow, automatically the demand for goods and services of all kinds will increase, pushing up prices of these goods and services, as well as the price of land. However, it’s extremely difficult for the Kg Seri Batu 8 Labu village to get the effects of urban sprawl as the degree of urbanization in Seremban town remains questionable.

However, the positive consequences as well as the effect of urban growth and sprawl from the fast growing burgh in Nilai town nearby has been provided opportunity for the village becoming magnets for the rapid growth.

Ultimately, the rapidly growing Nilai will be developed into an industrial hub under the Malaysian Vision Valley project, a dedicated rail line to transport the goods will be built to keep the cost low.

On the other hand, according to the reports, the Express Rail Link (ERL) service between KL Sentral and KLIA will be extended up to the upcoming high speed rail (HSR) terminal in Labu, Seremban.

Besides that, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line also to be extended from Kajang to Labu, where the HSR station would be built. This is the fuelling factors for the village’s rapid growth.

The cost of living here is almost the same as the town nearby. Although the prices of goods and services still affordable but it appears a bit high for the villages. 

Currently, a small bowl of Pan mee is RM5.00 but before GST consumer only pays RM3.00. Villages accused that GST is the sole and the real cause of price hikes.

Certainly, urban sprawl has both positive and negative effects on the areas and the peoples especially the drastic change in the social structure, thus measure should be taken to prepare the people from drastic changes in respond rapidly to changing economic.

Balai Raya Kg Seri Batu 8, Labu

Main Road

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